Chemical Health & Safety expert

Are you passionate about Health and Safety? Want to lead the global chemical agenda, support risk assessments, and ensure compliance with evolving regulations? Ready to provide technical leadership and shape safe operations across our global portfolio? Join us in driving safety and innovation, apply now!

The position
In this role, you will work as a Subject Matter Expert providing technical leadership on Health and Safety Chemical aspects, developing of the chemical agenda and support-ing all Corporate CVP area within chemical aspects of Development Product Portfolio & Emerging Technologies (DPP&ET) on a global level.

Main responsibilities will be to:
• Support DPP&ET CVP organisation as chemical expert, this will include produc-tion and/or checking of early phase project deliverables appropriate to disci-pline speciality
• Support process risk assessments in order to establish and deliver safe process operations and meet drug substance quality requirements
• Overview changes in legislation globally/international standards, proactively secure standards, procedure etc. are timely aligned and implemented 
• Investigates chemical accidents and environmental liaising with engineers, management, and health and safety regulatory authorities to identify causes of accidents and prevent their recurrence
• Support chemical management of changes processes, classification of new chemical and products and developing of procedure for chemical handling 

Moreover, you will be overall responsible for DPP & ET global training programs for chemical handling, ensuring compliance with organization and government standards.

Please note that you will be working on both sites Måløv and Høje Taastrup, other than a few days per week from home if desired. 

Qualifications
 

To succeed in this role, you:
• Hold a bachelor's degree or master's degree in chemical management or strict-ly related field
• Have extensive experience in Chemical Management roles, in either a pharma-ceutical or manufacturing environment
• Have been in a Health & Safety role before 
• Possess strong knowledge of local and international chemical regulations and standard
• Have experience in conducting chemical risk assessments and implementation of preventive actions
 

As we work in an international environment, professional English proficiency is re-quired.

You will work in a crossed matrix' organization, so you demonstrate excellent commu-nication skills to thrive on a high level of stakeholder management and coordination across. 
On a personal level, you have the ability to identify better practices and creating im-provements in methods, techniques, and approaches, with a problem-solving attitude.

Finally, you can set directions and deliver results within the context of a wider opera-tional area, are skilled in handling most situations independently and with routine, while seeking advice and guidance on more complex issues. 

About the department

In ET, we are a team of approximately 3,000 dedicated employees primarily based in Måløv and Taastrup (DK), with additional locations in Boston (US), Durham (US), Pe-tersburg (US), and Athlone (IR) - and our sites are continuously expanding. With am-bitious plans for the future, we are working diligently to bring our new tablet product to market. Together, we are committed to maintaining our position at the forefront of technological, systems, and process development.

As our Subject Matter Expert within Chemicals, you will join the dynamic and evolving ET Business Development & Support (ET BDS) team based in Taastrup. Working across all 7 (C)VP areas of ET, the ET BDS team serves as the Executive Office to the Senior Vice President of ET. We prioritize professionalism and ownership, fostering an open and informal culture. You will have ample opportunities to thrive and grow in a supportive environment alongside talented and ambitious colleagues.