Environmental Health & Safety Professional (Construction Exp)

About the Department

For more than 100 years, Novo Nordisk has been tackling the unmet medical needs of people living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes & obesity. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on life-changing careers, and the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.

In NC, we operate three pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that are responsible for fulfilling different steps in our injectable and oral treatment supply chains. Our Emerging Technologies - Oral Finished Products facility in Durham, NC is a 194,000 square foot tableting and packaging facility that supports the production of our innovative oral treatments for patients with type 2 diabetes. OFP maintains a curious and pioneering spirit, harmonious with our growing pipeline of new products and emerging technologies.

What we offer you:

• Leading pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
• All employees enjoy generous paid time off including 14 paid holidays
• Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance – effective day one
• Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution plus individual company match option
• Family Focused Benefits including 12 weeks paid parental & 6 weeks paid family medical leave
• Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
• Tuition reimbursement 
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Employee Referral Awards

At Novo Nordisk, you will find opportunities, resources, and mentorship to help grow and build your career. Are you ready to realize your potential? Join Team Novo Nordisk and help us make what matters.

The Position

Provide leadership & support in attaining a safe working environment, provide direct support for production & maintenance, collect & report environmental data.

Relationships

Reports to Manager, FUSE.

Essential Functions

• Follow all safety & environmental requirements in the performance of duties
• Implementation of safety programs
• Support Production & Maintenance with safety management
• Provide safety expertise & solutions to all managers & projects for resolving known or potential issues
• Provide safety training & tools for the core processes to improve safety performance
• Communicate safety performance statistics on a monthly/weekly basis
• Review all recordable accidents & coach root cause analysis, corrective & preventive actions departments
• Provide backup support for the ISO14001 Environmental Management as well as ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems
• Increase the awareness of safety through various communication tools
• Management of Circular for Zero waste initiatives & control processes
• Assist in management & record keeping for Health & Safety qualifications, programs, & compliance requirements
• Other accountabilities, as assigned

Physical Requirements

Moves equipment &/or supplies weighing up to 33 pounds within the facility using various body positions. Routinely operates & inspects manufacturing equipment using hands. Strap & unstrap pallets using hands. Must be able to be on your feet for up to a 12 hour shift. May require corrected vision to 20/20 or 20/25 based on role. May require color vision based on role. Occasionally ascends/descends a ladder. May be required to work at elevated heights. Occasionally works around odorous &/or hazardous materials. May be required to wear latex gloves. May perform critical job functions in extremely cold work environments depending on site. May position oneself within confined spaces for inspection if required of the role. Ability to work in loud noise environments with hearing protection. May be required to secure a motorized vehicle license & operate a motorized vehicle based on the role.

Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS degree in a related field preferred
• Construction and site expansion experience highly preferred
• Experience: Minimum of one (1) year in a safety environment required
• Full knowledge of OSHA regulations required
• Good skills in root cause analysis for analyzing accidents preferred
• Working knowledge of ISO 45001 & 14001 is a plus
• Emergency Management / planning knowledge & experience is a plus
• Pharmaceutical experience a plus is a plus
• Good communication & writing skills required
• Organization/Planning: Ability to develop & manage action plans to achieve targets required
• Leadership: Builds strong working relationships. Ability to lead task & project teams. Ability to manage a changing work environment with constant changing requirements required
• Participative/Supporting/Coaching: Actively participates in team activities, supports ideas/actions of others & uses appreciative feedback style to coach others in how to “make their idea even better.” Required
• Agility: Quickly flexes to changes in responsibilities & business needs with grace & ease required
• Teaming: Demonstrates behaviors consistent with “for me to win the team must win” beliefs. required
• Appreciative: Demonstrates appreciative feedback style.  Appreciates other team members & their contributions toward assuring the process team wins. required
• Customer/Results Driven: Understands who the customer (internal/external) is, understands the customers’ requirements, prioritizes work & develops processes that support the customers’ needs required
• Fact Based Decision Making: Demonstrates a disciplined approach to problem solving that is based on data & facts & is consistent with vision/business goals & values. required
• Personally Accountable: Owns the results of individual actions & team’s activities. Models the Novo Nordisk way required

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.