Associate Director, Environmental Health & Safety

The Role The Associate Director, Global EHS will serve as a key implementation and site-support resource within Moderna’s Corporate EHS organization. This role will support the development, deployment, and standardization of global EHS programs, standards, and initiatives across Moderna’s manufacturing, laboratory, and operational sites, while also providing direct onsite EHS support at the Norwood campus. In this role, you will work closely with Corporate EHS leaders, site EHS teams, and cross-functional business partners to translate global EHS strategy into practical, effective, and sustainable site-level execution. You will help ensure that global EHS programs are not only developed, but successfully implemented, embedded, measured, and continuously improved across the network. Here's What You’ll Do Support the development, implementation, and sustainment of global EHS initiatives, programs, standards, procedures, tools, and governance processes across Moderna’s global site network. Partner with Corporate EHS leaders to translate global EHS strategy, regulatory expectations, and business needs into practical implementation plans, tools, training materials, and site-ready solutions. Serve as a tactical deployment leader for global EHS programs, helping sites understand requirements, assess gaps, define implementation actions, and execute against agreed timelines. Provide onsite EHS support to the Norwood campus, including technical guidance, program implementation support, risk assessment, incident/event support, inspection readiness, and coaching for site stakeholders. Act as a subject matter expert on assigned EHS topics, providing practical guidance to site teams and business partners on risk management, regulatory compliance, EHS program expectations, and implementation requirements. Support the standardization of EHS programs and ways of working across sites, helping establish consistent expectations, tools, metrics, and governance while allowing for appropriate local regulatory and operational adaptation. Lead or support the creation of corporate EHS standards, procedures, work instructions, guidance documents, templates, training content, and implementation toolkits. Partner with site EHS teams to drive implementation of corporate EHS requirements, including gap assessments, action planning, performance tracking, corrective actions, and escalation of barriers or overdue deliverables. Support global EHS performance improvement by identifying trends, recurring gaps, implementation challenges, and opportunities to simplify, standardize, or strengthen existing programs. Provide EHS support for global and site-level operational initiatives, including management of change, capital projects, new process introductions, technology transfers, audit readiness, regulatory readiness, and operational risk reduction activities. Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Manufacturing, Quality, Facilities and Engineering, Technical Development, MS&T, Supply Chain, Capital Projects, and site leadership to ensure EHS requirements are effectively integrated into business processes. Support development and deployment of EHS metrics, dashboards, governance routines, and management review content to monitor implementation progress, program effectiveness, and risk reduction outcomes. Coach and influence site stakeholders, frontline leaders, and functional partners to strengthen EHS ownership, improve risk recognition, and embed EHS expectations into daily operations. Participate in internal audits, regulatory inspections, management system activities, and program reviews, supporting action closure and continuous improvement. Help build scalable EHS solutions that are globally consistent, operationally practical, and aligned with Moderna’s evolving business, manufacturing, laboratory, and site expansion needs.  Experience using or implementing digital, data, automation, or AI-enabled tools to improve EHS program performance, compliance management, risk assessment, event learning, inspections, training, or operational decision-making.  Ability to partner with technical, digital, and business teams to define EHS AI use cases, translate functional requirements into practical workflows, evaluate outputs for accuracy and usability, and support responsible adoption across diverse site environments. Here’s What You’ll Need (Basic Qualifications)   Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Life Sciences, or a related technical discipline required. Advanced degree preferred. Significant EHS experience in a manufacturing, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, laboratory, life sciences, or similarly regulated technical environment.  Experience supporting or implementing EHS programs across multiple sites, regions, or business units. Global or multi-site EHS experience strongly preferred. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement EHS programs, standards, procedures, tools, training materials, and governance processes that are practical, scalable, and sustainable.  Strong technical understanding of core EHS disciplines, which may include occupational safety, environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, biosafety, hazardous materials, hazardous waste, process safety, contractor safety, emergency preparedness, ergonomics, machine safety, LOTO, confined space, fall protection, and incident investigation. Working knowledge of EHS regulatory frameworks and management system principles, including ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. Experience supporting management system implementation, certification, or sustainment preferred.  Ability to interpret regulatory, corporate, and industry requirements and convert them into clear site-level expectations, implementation plans, and actionable deliverables. Strong project management and execution skills, including the ability to manage