Environmental Health and Safety Engineer - SLC East

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

Under general supervision, provides the ability to lead industrial safety risk management and manufacturing evaluation for a wide variety of topics and situations. To be successful the Environmental Health and Safety Engineer needs to have strong technical, mechanical and operational knowledge based in manufacturing. Understand industrial safety, process risk, and drive technical and management system solutions. The Environmental Health and Safety Engineer is focused on continuous improvement of industrial and manufacturing safety risk identification, process safety programs and work processes for the site. 

How you’ll spend your day

This is not intended as a comprehensive list; it is intended to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities.  Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed, and may be required to perform additional, position-specific tasks.

 

⦁    Carries out responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies, procedures, and state, federal and local laws.
⦁    Interprets and evaluates Safety Data Sheets for the site’s materials and products.
⦁    Provide expertise on industrial safety risk assessments and risk management processes, methods, and standards; leading industrial safety risk assessments across the site, coaching others in risk management methodology, and ensuring environmental, health and safety compliance.
⦁    Identify and oversee production process improvements with Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs).
⦁    Provide education to employees on risk identification and drive engagement to reduce risks across the site. Promote and maintain a high level of safety consciousness among employees to instill a safety culture in the workforce.
⦁    Performs complex Risk Assessments, Job Safety Analysis, and safe work planning/permitting.
⦁    Performs comprehensive machine guarding assessments aligned with Teva and OSHA requirements.
⦁    Assist in design reviews for proposed new and modified facilities, processes, equipment, and tooling for compliance with company, local, and federal requirements.
⦁    Develop and maintain systems to monitor EHS program performance and drive performance improvements based on leading and lagging indicators.
⦁    Respond to incidents and assist in performing incident investigations.
⦁    Understands and executes comprehensive Root Cause Analysis with corrective/preventive action reports.
⦁    Ensures compliance with all Company policies and procedures, including safety rules and regulations.
⦁    Leads the work of or participates in EHS project teams
⦁    Works independently with little direction from manager, self-driven and can manage multiple projects.
⦁    Uses best practices and knowledge of internal SOPs, Teva Standards, and industry best practices to help ensure a safe and healthy workplace.
⦁    Review and evaluate drafts of site production records and SOPs, and laboratory test methods for EHS impacts as needed.
⦁    Experience with building and sustaining EHS culture initiatives that drive positive leading indicator performance.
⦁    Experience working with outside contractors for various facility and equipment projects to ensure adherence to site and applicable regulatory standards.
⦁    Technical writing experience
⦁    Experienced with delivering myriad EHSS training topics.
⦁    Ergonomic assessments following RULA, NIOSH, MSD Risk assessment tools, etc.
⦁    Other job duties as assigned.

Your experience and qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Occupational Health and Safety, Engineering or other safety related field from an accredited college or university
• A minimum of 2 years of industrial safety experience in a highly regulated environment. Pertinent federal, state and local laws, codes and regulations relating to Environmental, Health and Safety.
• ANSI, NFPA and other consensus standards. 
• Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
• Principles of industrial safety and related practices.
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