William Banner

About William Banner

EH & S Manager versed in all aspects of safety management, from auditing, training and investigating to policy development, data analysis, and regulatory compliance. Innovative and results-oriented professional with more than 20 years of experience managing safety and regulatory programs in the chemical industry.

Experience

1. Site Safety Cooridinator Senior Principal Scientist

   Cambrex

   Oct 2016 — Present · High Point, NC, US

   Supportive Culture to Facilitate Improved Safety Performance• Created engaging training to encourage continuous improvement in safety• Conducted orientation and training of new hires and contracted workers• Performed incident investigations and follow up with corrective and preventative measures to ensure continuous improvement in safety programs• Managed effective health and safety program to eliminate accidents and injuriesLocal and Global Leadership• Traveled to multiple sites to collaborate with local, national and international EH & S leadership teams to develop solutions to safety issues and share best practices• Worked with local management and corporate leadership to identify leading and lagging metrics to support solutions to safety and regulatory issues• Inspected North American and European manufacturing sites and completed in-depth reports outlining safety concerns and corrective recommendations for employees, projects, and equipment• Monitored safety and assessed risk levels and mitigation strategies at manufacturing sites and during site laboratory and pilot plant renovations• Client-focused process chemist managing 5 pilot plant projects over 2 years• Conducted new employee interviews• Trained shipping manager, including dangerous goods shipping• Managed Radiation Safety Program as a Certified Radiation Safety OfficerProcedures and Compliance• Performed regular safety and environmental inspections/audits to ensure compliance with all local, national and international regulations• Maintained ongoing education and training for DOT, IATA, OSHA, RCRA, and Radiation Safety• Maintained all recordkeeping and paperwork preparation in line with OSHA, RCRA, and other state and federal requirements• Assessed compliance of site safety procedures, wrote standard operating procedures (SOPs), updated SOPs and re-trained employees on updated procedures, based on corporate management system

Education

• Clemson University

  Ph.D., Medicinal Chemistry

  1991 — 1995

• Gettysburg College

  B.S., Chemisty

  1987 — 1991

Skills

• Hazardous Waste Management
• Laboratory Equipment
• Kinases
• Nmr
• Pharmaceutical Research
• Mass Spectrometry
• Medicinal Chemistry
• Heterocyclic Chemistry
• Chemistry
• Drug Discovery
• Organic Synthesis
• Parallel Synthesis
• High Throughput Screening
• Hplc
• Nmr Spectroscopy
• Lc-Ms
• Scifinder
• Lead Change
• Purification
• Environment, Health, and Safety (Ehs)
• Chemdraw
• Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• Equipment Repair
• Combinatorial Chemistry
• Drug Design
• Drug Development
• Computational Chemistry
• Chromatography
• Cancer
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• International & Domestic Shipping
• Equipment Maintenance
• Lead Optimization
• R
• Pharmacokinetics
• Assay Development
• Small Molecules
• Organic Chemistry