Environment, Health, and Safety Specialist

Responsibilities

• Collaborate & Innovate: Partner with the EHS Manager and Sub-Component Teams to proactively identify risks, investigate incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and develop preventative actions.
• Master the Metrics: Own monthly reporting into BD database systems, tracking everything from incident data and hours worked to site headcount, ESO data, leadership metrics, and notices of violation.
• Champion Ergonomics: Help manage our site Ergonomics Program by serving as the liaison for associates requesting evaluations, conducting assessments with the EHS team and Occupational Health Nurse.
• Develop & Deliver Training: Assist in managing our EHS Training Program by delivering safety curriculum, ensuring training accuracy and assignments are up-to-date, generating reports, and coordinating scheduling across departments.
• Keep Programs Current: Review and update written EHS programs, SOPs, and Work Instructions to ensure they align with current regulations and BD Corporate EHS standards.
• Conduct Inspections & Audits: Perform regulatory evaluations and inspections, write detailed reports, and communicate findings to site management to maintain our compliance excellence.
• Manage Compliance Calendar: Execute verification checks on EHS compliance tasks per the site calendar, including coordinating pressure vessel inspections, eye wash stations, evacuation drills, and other critical safety activities.
• Assess & Mitigate Risks: Conduct risk assessments and process evaluations to identify needs for engineering or administrative controls, supporting management of change processes and coordinating implementation of safety and environmental controls.
• Maintain Regulatory Excellence: Ensure full compliance with all local, state, federal, and BD environmental, health, safety, and quality regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Stay Current: Keep yourself informed on compliance requirements in your area, participate in regulatory training, and proactively bring compliance questions or issues to management's attention.
• Build Safety Culture: Implement safety awareness programs, participate in departmental safety inspections, and help identify and correct hazards before they become incidents.
• Required Qualifications:
• Associates Degree in Occupational Safety & Health or a related field with 2+ years experience in EHS; or
• High School Diploma or GED with 5+ years experience in EHS

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Occupational Safety & Health or a related field
• Experience working in a highly automated & large (+400 person) manufacturing environment in the United States.
• Professional certification (i.e. ASP, OHST, GSP, TSP, etc.).
• Knowledge and Skills:
• Knowledgeable in emergency response programs, safety committees, and audit programs.
• Knowledgeable in EPA, OSHA, NFPA, and other safety regulations.
• Knowledgeable in Industrial Hygiene monitoring and understanding reports.
• Knowledge of GMP/SOP/Work Instructions and be able to develop techniques to ensure adherence to quality standards.
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Benefits

Additional Information

We are the people who give possibilities purpose BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it's no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us-from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year-to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. Job Description Reporting directly to the Site EHS Manager, you'll be the go-to technical expert driving our environmental, health, and safety programs forward. The EHS Specialist collaborates with all local management leadership and associates to enhance, develop and sponsor programs intended to implement and promote the continuing EHS performance of the Sandy location with a focus on health and safety compliance.

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