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Senior Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Medtronic
Irelandfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Jan 2025

About the role

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

Our Purpose 

At our Environmental Health and Safety Department in Medtronic, 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. 

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A Day in The Life Of:

  • Manages teams, oversees performance, and drives talent development to align with strategic goals.
  • Mentors, coaches, conducts performance reviews, and prioritizes initiatives to meet organizational objectives.
  • Create local Environmental, Health and Safey Strategy that aligns with corporate EHS objectives.
  • Manage and monitor key EHS performance indicators.
  • Prepares environmental impact reports for construction projects, plant processes, and permit changes.
  • Reviews environmental documents from regulatory agencies and collaborates on corrective action plans.
  • Assesses the impact of proposed regulations on finances, industry, the public, and the environment.
  • Monitors pollution prevention, compliance, and auditing efforts.
  • Works with regulatory bodies to resolve compliance issues, establish permits, and assist in audits.
  • Represents the company in government and industry rule-making activities.
  • Ensures corrective actions for environmental, health, and safety hazards.
  • Identifies and addresses potential health or safety threats, including recommending changes to methods, processes, or materials, inspecting work environments, and investigating incidents.
  • Influence other functions and businesses to gain cooperation and alignment.
  • Promotes employee awareness/training on environmental, health, and safety matters.

Key Skills & Experience  

  • Bachelor’s level 8 Engineering or Science degree. 
  • A post graduate qualification in Environmental and/or Environmental, Health and Safety, an advantage. 
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant EHS experience with 5+ years of managerial experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.
  • 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.
  • Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in one department.
     

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 90,000+ 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. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here  
 

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