Associate Director - Site Safety Operations & Resilience

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Associate Director - Site Safety Operations & Resilience Macclesfield   At AstraZeneca, we are driven by our commitment to deliver accelerated growth and to make people's lives better. We thrive in our often intense and ambiguous environment, seeking out new challenges and working towards new solutions. We are part of an inclusive and giving community, supporting each other on our journeys. We are leading the way in delivering Lean processes that drive greater efficiency and speed. Sustainable practices are at the heart of what we do, ensuring we manage our environmental impact across all our activities and products.   We are now looking for an Associate Director - Site Safety Operations & Resilience to join the team!   Introduction to the Role   The role will lead multiple accountability areas within the Process Safety pillar, including three full-scope leadership remits and a broader portfolio. The three principal leadership responsibilities are to lead the Campus departmental SHE Advisor community, driving matrix leadership, cross-departmental consistency, behavioural safety and capability development; oversee the management and investigation of all near misses, incidents and accidents across occupational, environmental and process safety, including process safety events, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and the dissemination of learning and lead the front-end design and coordination of SHE and Process Safety training programmes in partnership with Learning & Development. Training delivery will be owned by Learning & Development, while training records and competency assurance will be managed by the Associate Director - SHE Compliance.   The wider portfolio includes supporting the Director – Process Safety on emergency control operations, overseeing Process Safety activities outside the AstraZeneca Global Process Safety Management framework, emergency response and business continuity planning, crisis communications, Life Saving Rules and critical-control verification, traffic and forklift safety, fire safety, off-site COMAH planning and public information requirements, safety training curricula, and behavioural safety delivery through the departmental SHE Advisor community.   Accountabilities   • Departmental SHE Advisor Lead: Matrix leadership of the Campus departmental SHE Advisor community across all pillars. Chair the departmental SHE Advisor forum. Drive cross- departmental consistency in SHE practices. Deliver the site-wide behavioural safety programme through the community — observation programme, coaching cycles, cross- departmental learning. Develop departmental SHE Advisor capability and standard-setting for departmental -level SHE practice. • Governance of Near Misses, Incidents and Accidents (all types): Site-wide investigation leadership across occupational, environmental, and process safety events including process safety near-hits and incidents. Investigation framework and quality assurance. Near-miss coordination workflow with reporting culture development. Root Cause Analysis (RCA) / Corrective and preventative action (CAPA) framework and closure governance. Serious Injury / Fatality (SIF)-potential review. Cross-pillar learning dissemination. Process Safety Event (PSE) reporting. Loss of primary containment tracking. PSE trend analysis for Director, Process Safety and senior leaders. • Front-end for all SHE and Process Safety training across the Campus: Programme design, curriculum coordination, planning, and scheduling in close partnership with the Learning & Development team (who own the delivery process). Subject-matter content sits with each role owner. • Coordination and planning support to the Director – Process Safety, Emergency Coordinator deployment planning, exercise progra

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