Principal Consultant, Health & Safety

Shape the future of laboratory biosafety and enterprise health & safety performance in complex, high-risk environments.

At ERM, as a Principal Consultant, Health & Safety (Biosafety Focus) based in Scottsdale, Arizona, you will step into a highly visible, strategic role at the intersection of science, operations, and risk management.

This is an opportunity to influence how leading biotechnology, pharmaceutical, research, and high-tech organizations design and run their biosafety and health & safety programs—moving beyond compliance toward resilient, high-performing systems that enable innovation while protecting people and operations.

Why This Role Matters?

As scientific innovation accelerates, organizations face increasing complexity in managing biological risk.

Strong, well-governed biosafety programs are critical—not just for compliance, but for enabling safe, scalable innovation.

In this role, you will lead biosafety strategy and execution across BSL‑1 and BSL‑2 environments, with a strong preference for experience supporting or overseeing BSL‑3 laboratories.

Your work will directly shape how organizations manage risk, engage leadership, and embed safety into everyday laboratory operations.

What Your Impact Is:


* Lead and mature safety programs for multiple industries; and biosafety programs for BSL‑1 and BSL‑2 laboratories/manufacturers, with strong preference for experience in BSL‑3 program oversight, commissioning, or operational readiness


* Develop, deploy, and manage safety and biosafety management systems, including policies, standards, procedures, risk assessments, agent‑specific risk reviews, exposure control plans, and biological spill response protocols


* Support and participate in Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBCs) (e.g., member, administrator/secretary, or chair support), including protocol review, NIH Guidelines compliance, and governance cadence


* Build and deliver role‑based training


* health and safety and biosafety audits, gap analyses, and maturity assessments; develop corrective actions and verify effectiveness


* Oversee program interfaces such as equipment certification coordination, laboratory design and operational readiness reviews, waste management, occupational health linkages (vaccines and medical surveillance), and contractor controls


* Design and implement broader Health & Safety and Technical Risk programs, including compliance auditing, ISO 45001–aligned management systems, risk management, contractor management, and Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) prevention


* Lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, corrective action development, and control verification while driving organizational learning


* Support safety culture and leadership initiatives, including coaching, field engagement, and capability building


* Manage complex consulting projects and programs, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations are...