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Job Description
Abbott is seeking an EHS Engineer to join its Diabetes Care division in Donegal, Ireland. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring compliance with environmental, health, and safety legislation and developing systems to optimize the site's performance.
As an EHS Engineer, you will play a crucial role in maintaining a safe and healthy work environment, ensuring the site delivers safe and effective products, and monitoring and maintaining EHS records.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain EHS programs to ensure compliance with government regulations and company standards.
- Ensure the site delivers safe and effective products that meet customer needs while maintaining compliance.
- Monitor and maintain EHS and compliance status of associated EHS records.
- Maintain EHS and compliance status of associated procedures, work instructions, and training materials.
- Present and communicate status, report metrics, identify trends, potential issues, and improvement initiatives.
- Perform EHS risk assessments 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.
- Manage 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 programs driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure all EHS incidents are investigated to establish causation and resolution, manage EHS incidents to closure.
- Promote, implement, and participate in EHS committees.
- Coordinate 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.
Requirements:
- 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.
- Understanding of and experience in ISO management systems implementation, including ISO 45001 and 14001.
Accountability/Scope:
- Reports to EHS Manager.
- Scope of decision making relates primarily to the Environmental aspects of activities.