EHS Business Partner, Site Ops

This South San Francisco (SSF) based position is a pivotal part of Genentech’s Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) function within the Security, Safety, Health, and Environment (SSHE) department. EHS is integral to safeguarding Genentech’s operational integrity and upholding our culture of proactive prevention and innovative problem-solving. Our mission is to mitigate risks and ensure the safety of our people, the environment, and our pipeline across the SSF campus and our extensive network. At Genentech, compliance is a collaborative effort shared with the entire business.

As the face and voice of EHS to Siite Operations and the face and voice of the client to EHS, the EHS Site Operations Business Partner (BP) is accountable for customer engagement, understanding the business, managing customer and partner issues, serving as the voice of the customer, facilitating communications, implementing programs, ensuring compliance assurance and permitting, overseeing EHS training, managing corrective action plans, audits, and inspections, handling incident management and reporting, and developing, tracking, reporting, and driving business unit EHS metrics.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership and Representation

• Internal and External Representation: Act as the face of the EHS function both within Genentech and externally. Leverage specialized expertise to represent the company at industry forums, regulatory meetings, and other external engagements.
• Strategic Leadership: Lead EHS initiatives with medium to high regulatory requirements, risks, and complexity. Provide strategic guidance and mentorship to EHS staff, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Expertise and Influence: Demonstrate strong understanding of programmatic principles, offering deep, actionable insights into program operations and strategy. Lead by example, setting high standards for EHS performance.
• Executive Leadership: Through Strong leadership qualities, Sets a positive example, treating all employees, peers, and leaders with dignity and respect. Demonstrates strong leadership qualities, including integrity, accountability, empathy, resilience, and the ability to inspire and motivate.
• Vision Communication: Articulates and aligns EHS and SSHE goals across the organization and with customers.
• Communication Skills: Exhibits great verbal and written skills for clear and effective communication at all levels.
• Confidentiality: Handles sensitive information with strict confidentiality and discretion.
• Conflict Resolution: Manages conflicts diplomatically to achieve successful outcomes for all parties.
• Accountability and Growth: Receptive to feedback and takes responsibility, showing a willingness to learn and grow.
• Presentation Skills: Delivers engaging presentations, conveying information effectively to diverse audiences.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Fosters effective partnerships across different functions and roles.
• Decision Making: Makes sound decisions based on thorough judgment and consideration of all factors.
• Global Representation: Represents SSF externally and on global squads and teams.
• SHE Management: Drives and is responsible for SHE management efforts across the customer persona with projects or activities, which have an impact across the assigned business unit.

Customer Engagement

• Main Point of Contact: Serve as the primary EHS contact for moderately complex business units with medium to high risk and medium complexity programs. Regularly meet with business unit leaders to establish and nurture relationships, comprehend EHS risks, and manage customer safety team engagements.
• Understanding the Business: Actively engage with customers in their workspaces to gain insight into their processes and business operations, lead and track risk assessments and inventory, and comprehend the business risks involved to help manage the highest risks at the right time for the business.
• Customer and Partner Issue and Solution Management: Actively resolve misunderstandings and conflicts between the customer and EHS, take full responsibility for managing customer EHS issues from start to finish, and reframe challenges into opportunities while influencing others to adopt new behaviors and approaches. Partner with other EHS team members to provide holistic solutions for the business.
• Voice of the Customer: Serve as the advocate for the customer, ensuring their goals and strategies are enabled by EHS program and business process requirements, not impeded.
• Communications: Incorporate EHS messaging into customer internal communications, assist with the most effective communication approaches for the business, and share applicable BU goals and feedback with the PMs while assisting with implementation based on business need.
• Programs: Works with Program Managers to ensure program requirements are built with customer processes in mind to enable, not hinder, business outcomes and in alignment with customer goals.

EHS Training and Compliance

• Targeted Training: Assists customers with the assignment of advanced EHS training programs, monitors EHS training completion, and works with EHS Program Managers to improve training materials and their effectiveness within the business units supported.
• Incident Management and Reporting: Remain informed of incidents impacting customer spaces or business and ensure STARIs are entered, tracked, and completed with quality for customer-owned incidents.
• Compliance Assurance and Permitting: Help Program Managers understand what compliance assurance tasks may have the biggest impact to reduce customer risks and update the customer applicability section of the EHS Program Matrix.
• Corrective Action Plans (CAPA), Audits, and Inspections: Tracks customer CAPAs, prepares customers for audits and inspections, and informs customers of CAPA management progress and upcoming audits or inspections that affect their business. Conduct regular risk assessments and audits for medium risk customers.

Metric Development and Management

• Meaningful Metrics: Develop and track customer metrics to measure effectiveness, adoption, business interruption, cost, and risk. Collaborate with EHS and the SSHE LT to create sustainable improvement plans.
• Presentation: Present metrics to client’s senior leadership and staff, ensuring metric health and identifying changes to metrics that are no longer meaningful.

Output Planning and Implementation

• Strategic Participation: Lead and participate across EHS, SSHE, and with business by participating in SSHE outputs, ensuring that SSHE outcomes align with customer outcomes, seeking feedback and the voice of the customer, supporting output implementation, and ensuring work aligns with SSHE outputs.

Goal Setting and Alignment

• Business Unit Goals: Partner with business units to develop aligned EHS goals. Ensure alignment with SHE outputs and outcomes, and budget parameters. Communicate business goals and progress/performance throughout the year.
• Individual Goals: Ensure individual goals drive improvements in safety, health, and environmental standards, include Roche competencies, and are aligned with SSHE and customer outcomes.

Emergency Response and Business Continuity

• Emergency Response: Represent EHS and lead portions of the response in person or remotely during disaster, emergency response and recovery efforts, and business continuity events when needed.
• Crisis Management: Experience in managing EHS incidents.
• Business Continuity: The Business Partner may be asked to work across EHS and SSHE to support business needs to help manage risks and will act as stewards for other business units as assigned.

Requirements

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health and Safety or related field with 8-10 years of experience, or no degree with 12 years of experience.
• Degree Preferred: MS
• Regulatory Expertise: Strong understanding of regulatory compliance and industry standards.
• Communication Skills: Good communication and relationship-building skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels.

Genentech is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.

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