Jessica Atkinson

Quality & Compliance Oversight

• Led quality and compliance functions, integrating GxP and EHS standards across operations.
• Conducted quarterly audits and tracked CAPAs, achieving a 100% closure rate on corrective actions within set timelines and reducing non-compliance incidents by 30%.
• Standardized workflows and implemented process improvements, contributing to a 15% reduction in operational delays and improved adherence to regulatory standards.

Audit Management & Regulatory Inspection Leadership

• Oversaw comprehensive audit preparation and execution, including pre-audit planning and post-audit support, ensuring findings were addressed within 30 days.
• Managed audit war rooms, aligning stakeholders and streamlining regulatory response, which improved audit response efficiency by 25%.

Process & Industrial Hygiene Optimization

• Developed and implemented a Utilities Shutdown App and SAP Maintenance Metrics Dashboard, enhancing real-time compliance KPI tracking and reducing issue resolution times by 40%.
• Centralized industrial hygiene monitoring through SAP, ensuring 100% annual compliance and proactively flagging non-compliance for corrective action.
• Maintained and reviewed annual industrial hygiene data, improving preventive measures and ensuring adherence to health and safety standards.

Safety Culture & EHS Program Leadership

• Co-led EHS Safety Culture initiatives, such as the GWES Good Catch Program and hazard identification media, resulting in a 50% increase in reported safety observations.
• Conducted quarterly workshops and EHS standard reviews for global sites, boosting safety compliance by 20%.
• Spearheaded a reliability program that transitioned the site from reactive to preventative maintenance, leveraging LCAM and RBAM to reduce equipment downtime by 35%.

Reliability & Maintenance Strategy

• Guided the implementation of a reliability program, integrating preventative maintenance strategies and achieving 95% preventive maintenance compliance.
• Utilized LCAM and RBAM tools for asset risk management and predictive maintenance, enhancing overall equipment reliability and reducing unexpected failures by 25%.

Sustainability & Compliance Leadership

• Established and implemented performance metrics and KPIs to track and visualize compliance and sustainability, leading to a 20% improvement in performance transparency.
• Spearheaded zero-waste-to-landfill initiatives, achieving a 40% reduction in waste generation and enhancing resource efficiency across key sites.
• Developed and executed comprehensive waste reduction strategies that reduced waste output by 35%, ensuring full regulatory compliance and contributing to sustainability targets.
• Led communication and engagement initiatives, fostering a culture of sustainability and compliance across 5+ regions, resulting in a 30% increase in employee participation in environmental programs.
• Developed and rolled out tailored communication plans and engagement activities that onboarded and upskilled over 1,000 employees, boosting awareness and commitment to environmental stewardship.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to integrate sustainable practices into daily operations, driving a 25% increase in sustainable policy adherence and embedding compliance considerations seamlessly into workflows.

• Global EHS Alignment & Safety Culture Leadership: Aligned and disseminated EHS preferred practices across the 19-site Global Workplace organization (GWES), achieving a 25% reduction in compliance gaps and fostering a unified safety culture through the GWES Safe by Choice program.
• Change Communication Strategy & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Managed strategic communication for organizational change, ensuring seamless understanding and alignment of strategies across five key CoEs (IFM, Reliability, Energy, Real Estate) and stakeholders including Compliance, Quality, and Procurement, leading to a 15% increase in cross-departmental engagement.
• Compliance & Risk Control Management: Enhanced compliance and risk control measures, conducting self-audits and gap assessments that improved EHS adherence by 30%, and reduced EHS and quality compliance incidents within the FM organization by 20%, supporting Merck’s culture of safety and quality.

• Project Management & Cost Efficiency: Led cost and schedule estimation, scope development, and project specifications, resulting in projects completed 15% under budget and 10% ahead of schedule on average.
• Contractor Safety & Compliance Oversight: Provided contractor safety and site orientation training for over 500 workers, leading to a 20% reduction in incident rates and improved compliance with safety standards.
• Field Activities & Regulatory Coordination: Managed environmental due diligence and field activities, including hazard assessments and industrial hygiene monitoring, ensuring timely reporting and compliance, which reduced regulatory non-compliance by 25% and enhanced corrective action response times by 30%.