HSE Manager

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

About Eurofins Villapharma

Located in Murcia, Spain. Eurofins Villapharma is Eurofins Discovery’s flagship center for synthetic chemistry, focused on supporting growth in chemistry services and Eurofins Discovery’s integrated drug discovery business, branded DiscoveryOne.

A new 63,000 square foot facility will initially support chemical synthesis and purification, more than doubling Eurofins Discovery’s current capacity.

The state-of-the-art facility will provide chemistry capacity and capabilities and enable new, associated services. The building’s design utilizes lean principles, optimizing sample and supply flows with laboratories demonstrating a modern and functional design to support industry demand for key productivity metrics. The $14M investment provides the facility and footprint for continual growth into the future.

Eurofins Villapharma is seeking a Health, Safety & EnvironmentManager (HSE Manager) based in Fuente Alamo (Murcia).

Eurofins Villapharma is expanding its footprint with the opening of a new research Centre in early 2021 to serve the growing market of outsourced drug discovery with its high quality chemistry capabilities. That person will play a pivotal role in maintaining a productive a collaborative working environment.

You will be responsible for enhancing quality and compliance across our organization. In this highly visible role, you will work with leaders to identify and manage inherent and emerging risks associated with their business and to understand the current level of control within their business activities. Additionally, you will develop and execute a risk management process within specific lines at EUROFINS VILLAPHARMA.

Your responsibilities:

• Integrate Eurofins Health, Safety & Environment Management policies and programs into EUROFINS VILLAPHARMA business processes and ways of working. Maintain risk management oversight.
• Maintain contemporary knowledge in the evolving regulatory expectations and global environment that impact the business.
• Partner with EUROFINS VILLAPHARMA line leaders to understand and enhance the quality culture so people , at all levels of the organization speak up when concerns, risks or issues occur so leaders can proactively address them through early mitigation.
• Prioritize and escalate EUROFINS VILLAPHARMA enterprise related risk and develop programs to mitigate and close out.
• Monitor and report Performance and Compliance performance, including operational metrics.
• Working with EUROFINS VILLAPHARMA leadership team, this person needs to ensure the SOP generation for each line (scientific, Environmental, Health and Safety and other core business support) maintain and update them.
• Prepare data for analysis and reporting purposes as required.
• Liaise with the European Eurofins Compliance Officer.
• Run L3 audits at EUROFINS VILLAPHARMA.

We are looking for a professional with these required skills:

• MS in scientific/technical discipline such chemistry, pharmacology or chemical engineered with 3 or more yrs. of experience or BS with at least 5 yrs. of experience.
• A broad scientific /pharmaceutical industry background.
• Knowledge of essential regulatory guidelines, world –wide policies and procedures.
• Previous experience in risk management, including root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Detailed knowledge of drug discovery processes.
• Demonstrated experience managing and engaging senior stakeholders, peers and teams.
• Experience working and influencing in a cross functional, matrix environment.
• Proven ability to manage a broad variety of projects and priorities.
• Experience in problem solving and issues resolution.
• High degree of communication and influencing skills.

Preferred Experience:

• Health, Safety & Environment Management experience.
• Experience and knowledge of drug discovery and/or supply chain processes.
• Demonstrated Experience on Data Integrity principles (ALCOA) and Document Management systems - DMS.
• Experience on continuous process improvement processes (Lean sigma, Design Thinking).

Offered:

• Immediate incorporation into a multinational group with strong growth.
• Good work environment, career plan, etc.
• Salary: Negotiable individually according to value and experience provided.
• Hours: From 7:30 to 17:00 (Monday to Thursday) and From 7:30 to 13:45 (Friday).