At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

At our Environmental Health and Safety Department in Medtronic, plc, we focus on how we can conduct our business in a safe and environmentally sustainable manner that promotes the health of our employees, customers, community, and the environment. Associate Environmental, Health and Safety Specialists are directly involved in achieving the sites sustainability goals and ensuring a safe work environment for employees.

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A Day in The Life Of:

• Ensures effective and sustainable EHS systems, programs and processes are in place.
• Implement and monitor compliance EHS legislation/regulations and Medtronic EHS standards.
• Partner with and educate business functions to assure that employee safety, environmental sustainable practices and compliance with EHS regulations are supported.
• Perform and report metrics pertinent to EHS activities.
• Obtains and maintains Health & Safety records and required Environmental permits, licenses and documents.
• Completes EHS job function duties such as job safety analyses/risk assessments, EHS training, workplace incident analyses, EHS inspections/audits, environmental regulatory reporting, data collection / analysis and internal audits.
• Conducts ergonomic risk assessments and makes appropriate recommendations.
• Evaluates new hazardous materials to ensure compliance in EHS requirements and facility procedures.
• Conducts EHS reviews for new product development, facility modification, product manufacturing modifications and new equipment/machinery installations. Facilitates EHS reviews for product transfer to/from other facilities.
• Selects and applies EHS principles, theories and concepts and uses independent judgment to develop and design practical solutions to EHS issues.
• Partner with business functions to resolve EHS problems.
• Develops, administers, and implement the site EHS Management System in accordance with IPC License, ISO14001, ISO45001, ISO5001, legal and corporate requirements.

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum Bachelor’s Level 8 degree in Environmental, Health and Safety, Environmental Science or other relevant Engineering or Science discipline.
• A post graduate qualification in Environmental Science and/or Environmental, Health and Safety, an advantage.
• Minimum 1-2 years previous experience in Environmental role or EHS required.
• Pharmaceutical, Chemical, or medical devices industry background an advantage.
• Detailed knowledge of legislation and ability to interpret and translate such information into site policy and procedures.
• Good communication skills and computer skills essential.
• Good attention to detail with ability to problem solve.

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves.