Job Description

SHE-Coordinator – AstraZeneca Global Operations, Sweden Biologics

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person. We have a bold Sustainability ambition with the goal to eliminate carbon emissions from our operations by 2025 and become carbon negative across the entire value chain by 2030.

The Sweden Bio-manufacturing Center (SBC) is a strategic investment to support the AstraZeneca biologic product portfolio. The new manufacturing facility will have the capability to support our biologic commercial pipeline and biologic clinical trial and launch programmes. At Sweden Biologics we shape the future by delivering advanced and sustainable biological drugs.

Do you want to go to a job that makes a difference for both its employees, patients, and the planet?

We can now offer a very exciting opportunity to become part of the new organization SBC located in Gärtuna, Södertälje Sweden. In order for us to continue to develop and be at the forefront of our broad business area, we are now looking for a driven and experienced SHE-Coordinator.

What you’ll do

The Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) coordinator has an important, central role in the Health and wellbeing of employees and our organisation. The ability to collaborate multi-functionally within the business and across the SHE functions and to drive SHE's work and culture forward is important.

You will lead and coordinate the SHE work at SBC, whilst actively pursuing the SHE plan towards long-term goals and strategies. Driving and ensuring that all departments works in a preventive way with all matters within the SHE area. You will support and coach managers and leaders in the SHE management system, and support managers and employees to develop their skills within SHE. Further, you will offer support to the business when introducing new working methods and standards. The SHE coordinators’ work is varied, you will work independently and take initiatives in complex issues. Furthermore, you will be the site representative in the AstraZeneca internal SHE networks and participate in SHE projects both within Site Södertälje and Global Biologics Operations.

Other tasks and responsibilities:

• Ensure SHE routines and instructions are in place and that these comply with overall guidelines and applicable legislation
• Actively lead investigative and improvement work on SHE issues
• Lead and conduct SHE risk reviews
• Represent Sweden Biologics in the development, updating and implementation of key initiatives within SHE issues
• Be a role model and drive the construction of the SHE culture
• Analyze data, identify trends and reporting of SHE events. Lead and perform SHE-related investigations and improvement work
• Ensure adequate training is in place that enable all employees to have the required and documented knowledge within SHE

Essential for the role

An academic education with a focus on work environment (work environment engineer) or corresponding level of experience through work is a must. Good leadership qualities, the ability to independently lead and develop your area of ​​responsibility as well as to contribute positively to the entire site's development. We believe you have very good knowledge of work environment issues, are used to leading risk reviews and have experience of GMP manufacturing and Lean. Also:

• Comprehensive knowledge of relevant Swedish legislation and developments in the area of Safety, Health and Environment
• Experience of working systematically with work environment
• Maintain own professional awareness and development within SHE
• Experience of production and SHE management systems
• To be able to communicate in Swedish and English, both speech and writing

Desirables for the role

For you collaborating and communicating with different people come easy and you think it is important to engage and coach employees. You feel passionate about both SHE and education issues and want to work both deeply and broadly. You are flexible, responsive and easy to create results by engaging others. As a person, you are structured, driven and curious to learn new things. In this role, you want to develop both yourself and the business.

Why AstraZeneca

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

So, what’s next!

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Excellent! We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours.

If you’re curious to know more then please reach out to Facility & Engineering Director Magnus Nyren, +46 703 735 216.

We welcome your application, no later than October 6th, 2021.

Interviews will be held ongoing during the application period.

Where can I find out more?

• AstraZeneca Global Operations: https://careers.astrazeneca.com/business-area-operations
• AstraZeneca Södertälje: https://www.astrazeneca.se/om-oss/verksamheten-i-sverige/Sodertalje.html
• Our Sustainability Ambition: https://www.astrazeneca.com/sustainability.html
• Ambition Carbon Zero: https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/articles/2020/ambition-zero-carbon-22012020.html
• Why we do it - “A life-changing day.” https://bit.ly/2TioMxP