Material Safety Lead

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The Position

In alignment with our core corporate purpose—"Doing now what patients need next"—the Material Safety Lead provides strategic, enterprise-level leadership to ensure the safe procurement, handling, inventory control, and lifecycle management of our clinical diagnostics portfolio and associated laboratory reagents within a warehouse environment. 

The Opportunity

This position champions an agile and highly collaborative approach on the following:

• Strategic Partnership & Visibility: Collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders such as (Engineering, SHE, and Business Insights) to design code-compliant storage infrastructure(s). You will influence and own the warehouse's hazard containment roadmap, presenting predictive risk models and inventory trends.

• Culture of Excellence: Cultivate a proactive safety culture and implement best practices from potential safety events into continuous process refinements. You will design and govern our safety architectures, including the immediate enforcement of structural changes or inventory caps (MAQs) required by code.

• Operational Velocity & Strategic Mitigation: Optimize the high-velocity diagnostic supply chain while maintaining strict regulatory compliance, organizational integrity, and operational focus.  Upon identifying systemic problems, you will implement permanent corrective actions.

What You Do

• Develop and implement a compelling safety vision that directly links rigorous hazardous and corrosive material storage to clinical product integrity and uninterrupted patient care.

• Actively monitor and anticipate shifts in global, national, and local environmental, chemical, and building safety frameworks (OSHA, EPA, NFPA) to engineer resilient, future-proof facility controls.

• Partner with key stakeholders to design and implement warehouse storage infrastructures that mitigate chemical reactivity. 

• Develop matrix-based safety grids to optimize storage configurations.

• Establish and audit baseline safe storage protocols for non-hazardous and high-density inventory, ensuring structural integrity through proper rack load distribution, pallet overhang compliance, and the strict maintenance of unobstructed longitudinal and transverse flue spaces. 

• Collaborate with Data Analytics to architect predictive inventory modeling systems, monitoring total storage volumes against local fire code Maximum Allowable Quantities (MAQs).

• Develop work instructions and education tools to create awareness of best-in-class storage practices for materials.

• Serve as the liaison between Warehouse Logistics, Quality Assurance, Procurement, and Corporate SHE networks to cultivate a unified, site-wide culture of safety.

• Lead the technical evaluation and risk mitigation strategies required during the integration of new storage automation, digital Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), or shifting product portfolio demands.

• Develop and maintain a technical understanding of cold-chain safety boundaries and cryogenic risks to ensure facility storage conditions consistently preserve diagnostic efficacy.

• Utilize enterprise data systems or business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, SAP, PowerBI) to track leading safety indicators and model warehouse storage inventory limits.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Chemistry, Industrial Hygiene, or a related clinical/scientific discipline.

• 5-7 years of progressive environmental health and safety or process engineering leadership with documented success spanning both analytical laboratory environments and high-density warehouse storage operations.

Preferred Professional Credentials

• Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) 

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO).

• Advanced, demonstrable command of NFPA 30 (Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code) and NFPA 400 (Hazardous Materials Code) within industrial facility architectures.

• Robust understanding of Good Distribution Practices (GDP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) as they apply to medical-grade, climate-controlled environments.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indiana Base Pay Range $104,000 - $193,100 Annual.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance, as well as participation in a long-term incentive program.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

Location: This position is based in Indianapolis, IN

Relocation: Relocation benefits are not available for this posting

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche 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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