Senior EHS Specialist

Apleona is seeking an experienced Senior EHS Specialist to support Environment, Health and Safety performance within our integrated facilities management operation for a global biopharmaceutical client.

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, 8am - 5pm

***Travel required as part of role***

Main duties and responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance, as well as day-to-day support to EHS colleagues across three client sites.
• Coordinate common EHS priorities and promote consistency
• Share good practices, lessons learned and improvement opportunities, and provide competent EHS advice to operational management teams.
• Support the development of a positive, proactive and accountable safety culture.
• Support implementation of the Apleona operational, key account and client EHS objectives and coordinate agreed EHS programmes, campaigns and improvement initiatives.
• Monitor relevant regulatory developments and communicate applicable changes, while identifying practical opportunities to improve EHS performance.
• Support mobilisation and change activities where required.
• Provide advice on applicable Irish health and safety legislation, environmental requirements, Apleona and client compliance expectations.
• Support the maintenance and review of legal registers and related compliance actions, monitor EHS compliance and escalate significant issues to operational management.
• Support site audit-readiness activities and participate in client audits, internal audits and regulatory inspections.
• Support operational teams in monitoring contractor compliance, achieving contractual EHS requirements, and in the management of high-risk work and critical controls.
• Provide technical support for the development and review of suitable and sufficient risk assessments.
• Review significant hazards and recommend appropriate risk-reduction measures.
• Coordinate the communication of relevant lessons learned across supported locations.
• Escalate significant/unresolved EHS risks through the appropriate management channels, and support and lead investigations in incidents, near misses and environmental events.
• Provide guidance on root-cause analysis and corrective action development.
• Track investigation and CAPA progress and escalate overdue or ineffective actions, while reviewing incident information to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Provide EHS advice and support for contractor activities.
• Support contractor onboarding, qualification and performance monitoring and review contractor EHS performance, escalating significant concerns.
• Work with procurement and operational teams to promote compliance with site and statutory requirements.
• Maintain effective working relationships with relevant Apleona and client stakeholders and act as a key EHS contact for matters relating to Apleona’s operations.
• Provide EHS updates and performance information at relevant operational meetings.
• Support client inspections, audits and EHS improvement discussions.
• Work with Quality, Engineering and Operations to support alignment with applicable GMP and GxP requirements.
• Monitor and report contractual EHS KPIs and performance measures and prepare EHS reports, dashboards and management updates.
• Use available digital systems to maintain accurate EHS records and performance information.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 7 years' EHS experience within a regulated industrial, pharmaceutical, life sciences or manufacturing environment.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience providing EHS guidance or coordinating EHS activities.
• Working knowledge of Irish health and safety legislation.
• Experience supporting contractor management in a complex operational environment.
• Strong communication, investigation and report-writing skills.
• Experience supporting audits, inspections or management-system activities
• Facilities Management and GMP/GxP environment experience is desired.
• Auditor qualification is desirable

We look forward to hearing from you!

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