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Associate Director, Environmental Health and Safety

Ginkgo Bioworks · Boston, Massachusetts · On-site

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About Ginkgo Bioworks

Build autonomous labs to accelerate biotech R&D. Program biology like software. Run experiments on our cloud lab or build your own. Trusted by 130+ customers. Backed by SoftBank VF and Felicis.

About the role

Ginkgo isn't slowing down, and neither should you. As we push into new territory - including building the world's first autonomous lab - keeping our team safe and our infrastructure compliant is mission-critical work. The Associate Director, EH&S will lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive Environmental Health and Safety programs across Ginkgo sites.

What they're looking for

  • Education: Four-year degree (BS/BA) in Science, Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Science, or a related applicable degree
  • Experience: 4+ years of management and EH&S experience specifically in a laboratory or manufacturing setting. Demonstrated knowledge of managing Chemical Hygiene programs
  • Program Execution: Demonstrated ability to create and execute EH&S programs that engage employees and enable a safe work culture
  • Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of systems under applicable regulatory controls at the local, state, and federal levels
  • Communication: Advanced interpersonal and communication skills, with a focus on collaboration, innovation, and inclusion
More about this role

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. We move fast across multiple business units, and right now we're building the world's first autonomous lab right here in Boston. Our team is ambitious, hands-on, and energized by hard problems - think tech-company pace and curiosity, applied to biology.

Ginkgo isn't slowing down, and neither should you. As we push into new territory - including building the world's first autonomous lab - keeping our team safe and our infrastructure compliant is mission-critical work. The Associate Director, EH&S will lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive Environmental Health and Safety programs across Ginkgo sites. This role requires a resourceful, hands-on leader who can build practical, scalable EH&S programs with the lean resources of a company our size while maintaining site-specific operational...

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