Barton Nielsen
Associate Director, Facilities Solid Biosciences
Barton Nielsen is Associate Director of Facilities at Solid Biosciences, bringing over 21 years of experience in facilities, lab operations, and environmental health and safety across complex manufacturing and research environments. He’s passionate about creating environments where science can advance safely, efficiently, and without disruption.
In his current role, Barton leads facilities, lab operations, and EHS programs in a highly regulated biotech setting, focusing on maintaining operational reliability under changing and often unpredictable conditions. His work centers on identifying where systems are most likely to fail and developing practical strategies to strengthen resilience across people, processes, and infrastructure, while working closely with cross-functional teams to simplify operations and align execution with broader business goals.
Barton brings a unique combination of hands-on operational expertise and scientific insight, backed by certifications as a Certified Safety Professional and Hazardous Materials Manager, along with advanced degrees in business and biotechnology.
Seminars
- Pinpointing the earliest points of operational failure across equipment, staffing, and workflows to prevent downstream disruption that drives unplanned downtime, emergency spend and delayed scientific delivery
- Prioritizing investment toward the highest-risk failure points by distinguishing systemic breakdowns from isolated issues, enabling more effective allocation of constrained capital and operational resources
- Reducing cost of disruption and compliance exposure by establishing leading indicators that signal instability early, allowing corrective action before issues escalate into audit findings, asset loss, or productivity collapse
If a major disruption hits tomorrow, a supply chain collapses, a regulatory shock, or an extreme weather event, how confident are you that your lab or site could keep operating? Would your teams know the early warning signs, the decision triggers, and the actions to take?
- Navigate through 3-4 realistic disruption scenarios to expose operational weaknesses across assets, staffing, digital systems, and vendors
- Evaluate the impact of disruptions on critical workflows and identify where resilience gaps pose the highest risk
- Craft a Resilience Playbook including early-warning indicators, decision triggers, response actions, and communication pathways
