Ginkgo Bioworks
Associate Director, Environmental Health and Safety
Boston, Massachusetts · Director · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 37 days ago
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About the role
- Ginkgo isn't slowing down, and neither should you.
- The ideal candidate will have previous experience in chemical hygiene as well as working within regulated environments such as CLIA or FDA.
- Ensure compliance with regulated processes, including CLIA standards.
Responsibilities
- Regulatory Compliance: Manage all applicable EH&S permits (Local, State, Federal) including County AQMD, EPA, OSHA, USDA, and Fire Departments. Ensure compliance with regulated processes, including CLIA standards.
- Management Systems: Support the implementation and continuous improvement of the EH&S Management System, including event reporting, CAPA management, bio-risk management, and chemical hygiene programs.
- Program Leadership: Lead the authoring and maintenance of EH&S programs for the organization with a view toward building scalable corporate programs.
- Operational Oversight: Support site leaders to progress EH&S programs and actively measure performance through compliance metrics.
- Expansion Support: Transition existing EH&S programs into new facilities, creating site-specific manuals and coordinating contractor or site-level support as needed, working within a lean team structure.
- Audit & Inspection: Develop internal inspection and audit programs for lab safety, flammable inventory checks, and controlled substance reconciliation.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Facilities, Shipping and Receiving, and Technical Management to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Program Execution: Demonstrated ability to create and execute EH&S programs that engage employees and enable a safe work culture.
- Demonstrated ability to create and execute EH&S programs that engage employees and enable a safe work culture.
Requirements
- Demonstrated knowledge of managing Chemical Hygiene programs.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of systems under applicable regulatory controls at the local, state, and federal levels.
- Advanced Degree: Master's degree in a scientific discipline or engineering field.
- CLIA Familiarity: Working knowledge of CLIA lab requirements, with the ability to take on ongoing CLIA compliance ownership if needed.
- Strong understanding of systems under applicable regulatory controls at the local, state, and federal levels.
- Advanced Degree:
- Master's degree in a scientific discipline or engineering field.
Nice to have
- Preferred Capabilities
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $127,000k- $190,000k.
Benefits
- Ability to quantitatively capture initiative deliverables and link outcomes to corporate strategy and vision.
Company info
- Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
- Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more.
- Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.
- Grow with Ginkgo
- We move fast across multiple business units, and right now we're building the world's first autonomous lab right here in Boston.
- Our team is ambitious, hands-on, and energized by hard problems - think tech-company pace and curiosity, applied to biology.
- There is a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and we are committed to driving change.
- Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces the value of working with people from all walks of life.
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