You will be responsible for providing technical guidance to the organisation to ensure compliance with legal requirements related to Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) as well as the companys corporate standards, policies, procedures, and guidelines related to EHS and industry best practices
The Specialist will work collaboratively across departments and sites to ensure that compliant environmental, health, and safety (EHS) programs are developed and implemented. In this position, the Specialist is responsible for identifying, preventing, and mitigating safety and environmental risks to protect our workforce, our assets, and the environment. In addition, Specialist will be responsible for, as part of the EHS team, maintaining & improving the EHS Management System and standards, and where applicable will support sharing of systems and tools across departmental boundaries and sites.
Primary Responsibilities
- Implementing corporate EHS strategy at the site operations level;
- Leading Safety programs to continuously improve the EHS programs, such as
- Risk Assessments
- Contractor Management
- Incident Investigations
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Chemical management
- Waste management
- Water & air management
- Ergonomics
- Bio risk
- Equipment & Machine safety
- Industrial Hygiene
- Driver Safety
- Personal Protective Equipment
- High risk work e.g., electrical safety, hazardous energy control, hot work, confined space entry, work at height, etc.
- Executing projects and assigned tasks, like risk assessments, inspections and share best practices;
- Providing EHS input, guidance, and direction to the review of equipment modifications, new processes, and capital investments.
- Supporting annual EHS training plans and deliver EHS training by providing training content, train trainers and employees;
- Participating in incident and near miss investigations (root cause investigation), reporting in the Global EHS administrative systems, developing Corrective Action Preventative Action (CAPA) where required and tracking actions until completion. Evaluating effectiveness of established CAPAs.
- Manage day to day EHS queries, technical support and issues.
- Prepare reports to site, divisional and/or corporate management and regulatory agencies.
- Bachelors or BTech Degree in Safety & Environmental Management, or related field
- 5 10 Year Experience in a manufacturing facility - Pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated industry.
- Experience on supporting multiple activities/projects/sites
- Strong ability to influence others across departments and at all levels of the organization.
- Technically strong; with understanding of a variety of EHS topics.
- Innovative & compliance-minded, with the drive to go seek out necessary information.
- Collaborator capable of working within a multi-functionary team environment.
- Enthusiastic with a strong drive for results.
- Self-directed, capable of using own initiative to make EHS improvements.
- Dedicated to maintaining high standards, with the courage and candor to ensure things are done properly onsite right first time.
- Safety First mind-set. Desire to protect employees and environment.
- Good customer and stakeholder management skills.
Who We Are
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What We Look For
In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one anothers thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
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Employee Status
Regular
Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Shift
Valid Driving License
Hazardous Material(s)
Requisition ID R239482
