We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Apr 2026

 

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

In this exciting role as the Senior EHS Specialist, you will develop, administer and implement EHS programs at the Mystic, CT facility.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.​

         

         

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. Develops, administers and implements environmental, health, and safety programs in accordance with governmental requirements.

• Develops, administers and implements environment, health, and safety (EHS) programs in accordance with governmental and company requirements.  These programs include, but are not limited to: Control of Hazardous Energy, Hazard Communication, Person Protective Equipment, Ergonomics, Contractor Safety, Emergency Action & Fire Prevention, Injury and Spill Investigation and Reporting, Respiratory Protection, Electrical Safety, Hot Work, Job Safety Analysis, Powered Industrial Trucks, Management of Change, Wastewater Permit Compliance, Drinking Water Management, Air Emission Tracking, Hazardous & Non-Hazardous Waste Management, Green House Gas Tracking.

• Interacts with site management to ensure compliance with EHS programs and resolve compliance / company requirement gaps. 

• Interacts with regulatory bodies to resolve compliance gaps and assists in regulatory audits.

• Works with cross functional team to investigate injuries and environmental incidents and ensures corrective/preventative actions are implemented, including engineering controls, recommending organizational measures to protect workers’ safety or prevent environmental incidents through revised methods, processes, or materials.

• Provide/promote employee awareness/training on matters of EHS.

• Conducts EHS reviews for new product development, facility modification, product manufacturing modifications, and new equipment/machinery installations. 

• Develops and drives programs and policies to improve Safety Culture and better understanding of risk. 

• Leads site Environmental Action Group (EAG) that monitors pollution prevention activities and supports efforts to reduce environmental impact.

• Manage hazardous waste compliance.

• Collects regulatory data from environmental monitoring systems/certified laboratories and utilizes the data to generate regulatory reports such as Tier II, TRI, and monthly / annual air emissions.

• Collects and compiles site waste data for company sustainability reporting.

• Oversees wastewater and drinking water sampling and analyzes sample results for compliance.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

Requires a Baccalaureate degree and 4+ years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 2+ years relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with CT, OSHA and EPA regulations for health, safety and environmental programs

• Experience with managing SDWA Drinking Water Systems and Wastewater Treatment Systems

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to inte