Manager, EHS & DEA Compliance

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer.

The Manager EHS & DEA Compliance provides leadership and direction for the sites Environmental Health & Safety and DEA Compliance teams. This role is responsible for developing people strengthening processes driving accountability and ensuring programs effectively support regulatory compliance risk reduction and operational excellence.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead coach and develop the EHS and DEA Compliance teams while establishing clear priorities expectations and accountability.

• Build team capability through coaching cross-training career development and succession planning.

• Foster a culture of ownership collaboration continuous improvement and proactive risk identification.

• The successful candidate will be a strong people leader who can build high-performing teams identify opportunities for improvement and partner across the organization to implement sustainable solutions.

• Provide employees with the direction and resources needed to successfully execute their responsibilities.

• Build strong partnerships with Operations Quality Engineering Security HR and other site functions.

• Effectively communicate priorities risks performance and improvement opportunities to site leadership.

• Influence across organizational levels to drive alignment and sustainable change.

• Evaluate existing EHS and DEA Compliance processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency effectiveness standardization and accountability.

• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives that simplify processes while maintaining strong regulatory controls.

• Establish meaningful metrics and use data and trends to identify risks prioritize resources and measure performance.

• Ensure corrective and preventive actions address root causes and result in sustainable improvements.

• Drive standard work clear ownership and consistent execution across EHS and DEA Compliance programs.

• Promote proactive problem solving rather than reactive management of incidents and compliance issues.

• Provide overall leadership and governance for site EHS and DEA Compliance programs.

• Ensure programs comply with applicable corporate federal state and local requirements.

• Maintain organizational readiness for regulatory inspections audits and assessments.

• Provide oversight of investigations CAPAs controlled-substance compliance EHS programs and regulatory commitments.

• Monitor changing regulatory expectations and ensure appropriate processes and controls are implemented.

• Partner with subject-matter experts to assess risk and develop practical sustainable solutions.

• Represent EHS and DEA Compliance in site leadership discussions and regulatory interactions as appropriate.

• Bachelors Degree in Environmental Health & Safety Life Sciences Business Engineering Regulatory Compliance or a related field strongly preferred

• 5 years of progressive leadership experience in EHS regulatory compliance pharmaceutical manufacturing or another highly regulated environment strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams managing change and improving business processes.

• Pharmaceutical or life sciences experience preferred.

• Experience with EHS and/or DEA-controlled substance regulatory requirements preferred.

• Strong people leadership coaching and talent-development skills.

• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through organizational and process change.

• Strong continuous-improvement and problem-solving mindset.

• Ability to identify inefficiencies and translate complex requirements into practical processes.

• Strong business judgment and ability to prioritize based on risk.

• Ability to influence and collaborate across functions and organizational levels.

• Strong analytical skills with experience using metrics and trends to drive decisions.

• Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced highly regulated environment.

• High level of integrity accountability and commitment to continuous improvement.