Senior Manager Plant & Process Safety
The Position
Join us in making our workplaces safer—your expertise is essential. Take an active role in ensuring that chemicals are handled, transported, and stored safely across the entire Boehringer Ingelheim network. Together, we can protect our colleagues, our customers, and our environment. Take the lead and make a meaningful impact today, we look forward to your application!
This position has a hybrid setup with approximately 3 days per week on site.
Tasks & responsibilities
- You will serve as a strategic advisor for Plant & Process Safety Management across all Boehringer Ingelheim sites, applying a risk-based approach to ensure strong EHS performance within all corporate entities and to safeguard supply chain integrity.
- In this role, you will design and implement corporate-wide EHS procedures and standards related to Plant & Process Safety, supporting sites in preparing for and achieving EHS compliance.
- You will also be responsible for defining the strategic direction, leading implementation, and overseeing the operational execution of a global EHS capability at both the corporate and regional levels.
- You will lead, through a dotted-line structure, a cross-functional team of professionals to identify and solve technical, operational, and organizational challenges, adjusting priorities to meet resource needs and operational demands.
- Additionally, you will interpret EHS regulations and establish cross-functional (Animal Health, Human Pharma, Bio, R&D) standards to optimize compliance costs, ensure reliable product supply, and prevent regulatory actions.
- To uphold Boehringer Ingelheim’s strong EHS reputation, you will balance regulatory compliance with commercial considerations.
- You will maintain close relationships with key decision makers and influence critical internal and external stakeholders to secure effective outcomes that support Boehringer’s long-term success.
Requirements
- Doctoral degree or master's degree (e.g., MBA, MSc or comparable) in the field of EHS, engineering or natural sciences
- Expertise in Plant & Process Safety combined with knowledge of relevant processes, procedures, and systems
- Long-term work experience as well as several years of leadership experience
- Strategic entrepreneurial thinking and acting, agile and innovation orientated mindset
- Good interpersonal and -cultural sensitivity
- Fluency in English, good German language skills as a plus
Ready to contact us?
If you have any questions about the job posting or process - please contact our HR Direct Team, Tel: +49 (0) 6132 77-3330 or via mail: hr.de@boehringer-ingelheim.com
Recruitment process:
Step 1: Online application - The job posting is presumably online until March 25th, 2026. We reserve the right to take the posting offline beforehand. Applications up to March 11th, 2026 are guaranteed to be considered.
Step 2: Virtual meeting in the period from beginning till end of March / beginning of April
Step 3: On-site interviews end of April / beginning of May