Senior Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

Overview

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio spans diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Eligibility for medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit for pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in many countries and named one of the most admired companies by Fortune.
• Recognition as one of the best big companies to work for, including for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

This position works out of our Houston, TX or Saint Paul, MN location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

An EHS professional who, working with little or no supervision, applies established EHS principles, practices, regulations and internal standards, interacts with customers and solutions minded in planning, directing and completing EHS assignments.

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Project Management: Independently plans and conducts assigned projects; manages multiple, often concurrent, projects and meets deadlines; facilitates the definition of a project scope with stakeholders; independently performs feasibility studies related to project alternatives; develops schedules (with metrics if required) and seeks concurrence from stakeholders; responsible for achieving the project s targets or deliverables; maintains project scope, cost and schedule; develops EHS strategy and executes contingency, if necessary.
• Technical: Applies technical knowledge/skills to EHS programs and systems; anticipates future business/EHS needs and develops new skills as appropriate; benchmarks internally and externally; independently executes and/or directs others in planning and execution of projects; designs and leads projects; reports findings; prepares and communicates recommendations and action plans; presents technical information in an understandable format to non-technical audiences; possesses recognized expertise in theories, principles and analytical tools.
• Problem Solving/Innovation: Produces value-added and cost-effective results; identifies, analyzes and resolves existing/new EHS challenges; integrates EHS solutions across the business within regulatory constraints; conducts investigations and root cause analysis; provides recommendations and develops solutions for a wide range of complex problems; anticipates future trends and develops strategies to address them.
• Organizational Interface: Mentors others by sharing expertise and providing feedback; interfaces with regulatory agencies and peers; represents the company in external meetings; communicates information effectively and timely; builds professional relationships; identifies training needs and develops/ conducts training; prepares and delivers presentations to motivate or persuade others to adopt recommendations or actions.
• Compliance: Supports compliance with all applicable regulations and internal standards; stays current on changing requirements; identifies EHS risks and consequences of new/modified processes/systems/regulations and takes appropriate action; ensures timeliness and accuracy of required documentation; represents the function during external regulatory inspections and internal audits; analyzes and communicates EHS performance data; responsible for achieving or contributing toward EHS targets.
• Additional Responsibilities: Develops…