Specialist, EHS Staff

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Under the direction of the EHS Director, provide guidance on personnel EHS matters to employees and contractors and exercise communication, training, and consultation skills to successfully implement programs, policies, and positive safety culture. Responsible for the development, implementation, support and maintenance of specific environment, health and safety (EHS) programs as assigned to ensure regulatory compliance and conformance with the company’s EHS Management System. This position will create programs, policies, procedures, hazard assessments, and training materials in an early-stage discovery R&D laboratory facility.

Responsibilities :

• Assists in the development and implementation of strategic programs, plans, policies and procedures to protect all personnel, facilities and the environment.
• Interprets, communicates and implements programs, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable external EHS regulations and internal corporate standards.
• Implements and leads EHS programs and initiatives including, but not limited to :
• Hazard identification / risk assessment and planning / implementation of controls
• Laboratory safety programs (biological, chemical, radiation)
• Ergonomic job safety analysis
• Environmental Sustainability
• Contractor / construction EHS management
• Industrial hygiene and hazard communication
• Emergency preparedness and response
• High hazard control (Lockout Tagout, confined space, work permits, machine guarding, electrical safety, fall protection)
• Investigates incidents and injuries to determine root cause; contributes to analysis and reporting of leading and lagging safety performance indicators to drive corrective actions.
• Develops and delivers EHS training on a wide variety of general safety topics such as hazard communication, contractor safety, emergency response and various physical safety programs.
• Collaborates with colleagues across the internal EHS network to identify best practice opportunities

Qualifications

Qualifications

List required and preferred qualifications (up to 10). Include education, skills and experience.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law :  ​

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),  medical / dental / vision  insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled.

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