EHS Specialist - Donegal Town, Ireland - Abbott Laboratories

Description

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.

Abbott Ireland

In Ireland, Abbott employs over 5,000 people across nine sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.

Abbott Ireland Diabetes Care Division Donegal

The Abbott Diabetes Care division based in Donegal Town manufactures FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre system.

This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:

We currently have an opportunity for an EHS SPECIALIST to join our Abbott Diabetes Care Donegal site. The following is required for this role :

The primary responsibility of the EHS Specialist – Environmental, is to ensure compliance with all relevant Environmental and Health and Safety legislation and assist in developing and maintaining systems and procedures that optimises Abbott Diabetes Care Donegal's environmental, health and safety performance. Foster environmental awareness in the plant and promote a culture of continuous improvement.

Major Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with Abbott and regulatory requirements and provide leadership and direction in environmental management.
• Ensure environmental and energy goals and KPI's are established and meet regulatory expectations.
• Present and communicate status, report metrics, identify trends potential issues, improvement initiatives, as applicable.
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of Environmental Health and Safety System procedures.
• Assist in the achievement of site and corporate led Sustainability Goals in relation to waste, water, energy management and air emissions, continually striving to reduce ADC's impact on the environment.
• Take an active role in efforts to optimize energy efficiency on site, reduce carbon emissions and promote pollution prevention.
• Co-ordinate waste management across the site and work with Total Waste Management vendor to ensure compliance, best practice and continuous improvement in waste management.
• Conduct waste vendors Audits to ensure compliance with Abbott and with legal standards.
• Responsible for Environmental performance reporting of waste, water, energy and air emissions data as required by Division and Corporate.
• Act as site Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor to ensure compliance with Abbott and ADR requirements. (DGSA training will be provided)
• Oversee compliance with Trade Effluent Licence requirements.
• Complete review and assessment of relevant legislation with reference to the Environment and Energy.
• Provide support and deliver EHS Training Courses as per relevant standards and requirements.
• Prepare environmental and energy award applications and grant applications to Abbott and external organisations.
• Ensure all environmental incidents are investigated to establish causation and resolution.
• Promote, implement and participate in EHS and Sustainability Committees.
• Co-ordinate inspections by regulatory bodies as required.
• This Job function will change where updates to EHS, GMP, Technical/New Equipment, and Quality Procedures & SOP's are made or where the business deems necessary.
• This list of responsibilities may change depending on plant needs and employees are expected to be adaptable and flexible where this need arises.

Education and Years Experience:

• A relevant degree or third level qualification in environmental management covering biodiversity management, pollution monitoring, impact assessment, environmental analysis, and environmental and safety issues.
• Experience working in an EHS or Environmental function within a regulated environment is beneficial for this role.
• Understanding of and experience in ISO management systems implementation including, ISO 14001 is beneficial.

Accountability/Scope:

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