Director of Environmental Health & Safety - CARDIFF BASED

With the acquisition of Amersham Radiolabelling Services from GE Healthcare, Quotient Bioresearch has significantly expanded its capabilities and now operates from 2 sites in the UK – Northamptonshire and Cardiff.

As part of the transition of the Amersham business, Quotient is constructing a world class radiosynthesis facility in Cardiff which is due to open in early 2010.

The group offers a custom synthesis service to clients in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and industrial sectors and over the years has acquired great experience in the development of synthetic routes, the isolation and analysis of chiral compounds and the preparation of radiolabelled macromolecules and peptides/proteins.

We are actively recruiting for a Director of Environmental Health and Safety. Principally based in Cardiff although with a corporate compliance responsibility this role would be expected to spend ~30% of time at other sites.

Principal Responsibilities:

To work with RPAs (internal and external) to ensure that appropriate Environmental compliance is being maintained in Cardiff and Rushden.
To work with Chair of EHS committee in Cardiff to strengthen and develop the EHS procedures and culture within the Cardiff site.
To develop a Chemistry & Metabolism monthly reporting tool for EHS compliance across the SBU with key metrics identified and reported.
To bring EHS compliance on the Rushden site under a framework that
To develop a program for building a corporate EHS compliance system for presentation to and agreement by the QBR executive board possibly through MD.
To monitor publications and attend appropriate meetings to advise Quotient on likely future EHS compliance issues and to work with business areas to develop effective strategies to embrace changes in a efficient way across the group.
To manage the environmental leader and the EHS team to help monitor contamination of laboratories and staff in Cardiff. This requires active and positive interaction with production, RPAs and RPSs. Play a key role in working with RPAs and EHS committees to efficiently collect, communicate and learn from data collected with the objective of identifying suitable corrective actions.

Other responsibilities:

To play an appropriate senior management role at the Cardiff site given the seniority of the position.
To be a strong team member with a recognition that solutions have to be found that meet business needs.