Environmental Health & Safety Engineer

at  Abbott Laboratories

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

EDUCATION AND YEARS EXPERIENCE:

• Degree in Health & Safety, Environmental Science or Chemical Engineering.
• Experience working in an EHS / SME role, preferably within the Medical Device industry or other similar regulated manufacturing industry would be beneficial for this role.
• Understanding of and experience in ISO management systems implementation including, ISO 45001 and 14001 is beneficial.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of EHS Programmes to ensure compliance with all applicable government regulations, company technical standards and values.
• Ensuring the site delivers safe and effective products that meet customer needs whilst maintaining compliance.
• Monitor and maintain the EHS and compliance status of associated EHS records.
• Maintain the EHS and compliance status of associated Procedures, work instructions and training materials.
• Present and communicate status, report metrics, identify trends potential issues, improvement initiatives, as applicable.
• Perform EHS risk assessments such as: area, biological, chemical; ergonomic, new and or modified equipment, task based etc, and make recommendations to control hazards.
• Coordinate and conduct internal EHS auditing and inspection ensuring actions are tracked to closure.
• Coordinate and ensure compliance with legislation and company technical standards regarding contractor management.
• Managing technical activities to progress projects and investigations.
• Participate and promote inspections and walkabouts that focus on the 6S principles.
• Promote continuous improvement in all environmental and safety matters.
• Ensure implementation of site environmental management programmes driving continuous improvement initiatives including but not limited to energy, water, and waste reduction.
• Ensure all EHS incidents are investigated to establish causation and resolution. Manage EHS incidents to closure, including root cause analysis and CAPA management.
• Promote, implement and participate in EHS Committees i.e. Safety, Waste, Sustainability
• Co-ordinate inspections by regulatory bodies as required.
• Ensure permit completion in compliance with laws and regulations.
• Develop, maintain and deliver EHS training programs to ensure compliance with site training requirements.
• This list of responsibilities may change depending on plant needs and employees are expected to be adaptable and flexible where this need arises.

ACCOUNTABILITY/SCOPE:

• Reports to EHS Manager.
• Scope of decision making relates primarily to the Environmental aspects of activities.