Dea Compliance Manager Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

The Manager, EHS & DEA Compliance provides leadership and direction for the site's Environmental, Health & Safety and DEA Compliance teams. This role is responsible for developing people, strengthening processes, driving accountability, and ensuring programs effectively support regulatory compliance, risk reduction, and operational excellence.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, coach, and develop the EHS and DEA Compliance teams while establishing clear priorities, expectations, and accountability.

• Build team capability through coaching, cross-training, career development, and succession planning.

• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and proactive risk identification.

• The successful candidate will be a strong people leader who can build high-performing teams, identify opportunities for improvement, and partner across the organization to implement sustainable solutions.

• Provide employees with the direction and resources needed to successfully execute their responsibilities.

• Build strong partnerships with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Security, HR, and other site functions.

• Effectively communicate priorities, risks, performance, and improvement opportunities to site leadership.

• Influence across organizational levels to drive alignment and sustainable change.

• Evaluate existing EHS and DEA Compliance processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, standardization, and accountability.

• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives that simplify processes while maintaining strong regulatory controls.

• Establish meaningful metrics and use data and trends to identify risks, prioritize resources, and measure performance.

• Ensure corrective and preventive actions address root causes and result in sustainable improvements.

• Drive standard work, clear ownership, and consistent execution across EHS and DEA Compliance programs.

• Promote proactive problem solving rather than reactive management of incidents and compliance issues.

• Provide overall leadership and governance for site EHS and DEA Compliance programs.

• Ensure programs comply with applicable corporate, federal, state, and local requirements.

• Maintain organizational readiness for regulatory inspections, audits, and assessments.

• Provide oversight of investigations, CAPAs, controlled-substance compliance, EHS programs, and regulatory commitments.

• Monitor changing regulatory expectations and ensure appropriate processes and controls are implemented.

• Partner with subject-matter experts to assess risk and develop practical, sustainable solutions.

• Represent EHS and DEA Compliance in site leadership discussions and regulatory interactions as appropriate.

• Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Life Sciences, Business, Engineering, Regulatory Compliance, or a related field strongly preferred

• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience in EHS, regulatory compliance, pharmaceutical manufacturing, or another highly regulated environment strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams, managing change, and improving business processes.

• Pharmaceutical or life sciences experience preferred.

• Experience with EHS and/or DEA-controlled substance regulatory requirements preferred.

• Strong people leadership, coaching, and talent-development skills.

• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through organizational and process change.

• Strong continuous-improvement and problem-solving mindset.

• Ability to identify inefficiencies and translate complex requirements into practical processes.

• Strong business judgment and ability to prioritize based on risk.

• Ability to influence and collaborate across functions and organizational levels.

• Strong analytical skills with experience using metrics and trends to drive decisions.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

• High level of integrity, accountability, and commitment to continuous improvement.