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Manger, Environmental, Health and Safety
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The Opportunity
Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important informion for trement and management of diseases and other conditions.
Join our dynamic Infectious Disease Developed Markets team loced in Scarborough, Maine, as a Manager, Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS).
This role is ideal for an experienced EHS professional who works with minimal supervision and applies advanced Environmental, Health, and Safety knowledge to complete complex assignments and partner effectively with internal customers. The Manager, EHS is solutions‑oriented and demonstres strong planning, direction, and execution of EHS initiives.
In this role, you will serve as a subject mter expert for select Abbott EHS management and technical standards and contribute to continuous improvement across the organizion. You will also support the development of entry‑level EHS professionals by sharing best practices and personal expertise.
This position manages or provides EHS support to Abbott sites within a single division or across multiple divisions or corpore functions, ensuring compliance, risk reduction, and alignment with Abbott’s EHS stregy.
Wh You’ll Work On
Project Management:
- Identifies plans and conducts or oversees complex and/or large-size projects.
- Managing multiple, often concurrent, projects and meets deadlines.
- Involved in site acquisitions, divestitures or product manufacturing transfer across facilities.
- Performs and reviews feasibility studies reled to project alternives.
- Maintains and reviews project controls and reporting for cost, scope and schedule. developing execution plan and contingency plan if necessary.
- Fully understands the business requirements and possible impacts and has a thorough knowledge of the stakeholder needs and EHS compliance when developing a project scope.
- Works with a wide degree of litude to plan, conduct and direct projects.
- Responsible for and collabores with sites to achieve division/corpore EHS targets.
- Acts as a lead person or technical expert on complex subjects and projects.
- Contributes to the development of the site, division or corpore EHS Stregic Plan, meeting its objectives in a timely manner. o Has project budgetary responsibilities.
Technical:
- Benchmarks internally and externally.
- Keeps abreast of current EHS trends and practices.
- Executes, directs and/or reviews EHS programs or projects.
- Serves as a subject mter expert in their field of expertise.
- Directs major projects requiring originion and applicion of new and unique approaches.
- Conducts complex investigions.
- Identifies and utilizes best-in-class analytical tools to perform job.
- Set functional, site or divisional stregic and policy EHS direction.
- Seeks opportunities to serve on internal multi-functional / divisional teams and external industry consortiums.
Problem Solving / Innovion:
- Conceptualizes complete solutions for novel or complex problems.
- Integres regulory and operional needs.
- Conducts very complex investigions identifying root causes.
- Based on root cause analysis, identifies and provides resources to implement solutions.
- Lead EHS initiives or programs th integre cross-disciplinary and cross functional issues to arrive optimal/best-in-class course of action.
- Advoces multiple alternives.
- Applies technology in innovive ways.
- Anticipes and addresses stakeholders needs
Organizional Interface:
- Mentors' others by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance. o Where approprie, provides tasks / project assignment opportunities for employee development and evalues performance.
- Represents the organizion as the primary EHS contact.
- Interacts with both senior management, cross-divisional and external stakeholders on significant EHS mters.
- Prepares and reviews written communicion.
- Conveys informion effectively through formal and informal documents and meetings.
- May move forward with action plans without seeking approval.
- Exhibits advanced ability to apply concepts of careful communicion.
- Follows through on EHS goals. and incorpores the ideas of others
- Shares resources, knowledge and accountability to benefit the objectives of the business.
- Establishes network and builds professional relionships internal and external to the organizion.
- Inities and cultives open and honest communicions with stakeholders.
- Shares best-in-class practices across the division or Abbott sites globally.
- Provides/coordines EHS organizional support to sites across the corporion or division.
- Regularly communices a high-level EHS summary to senior management.
- Drives EHS performance and metric improvements.
Compliance:
- Complies with all regulions and standards.
- Ensures EHS compliance and risk mitigion through risk assessments and implemention of stregies.
- Tracks and influences the development of proposed regulions, standards and emerging issues.
- Represents the company trade/regulory agency group meetings.
- Assist in the development and implemention of Global Standards across the business.
- Develop and provide EHS technical training.
- Develop long range plan to support EHS stregy, considering long term goals and EHS continuous improvement.
Additional Responsibilities
- Is identified as EHS Subject Mter Expert.
- Participes or leads cross-divisional teams to develop and align procedures/standards and share best practices.
- Directs the efforts of others, such as technicians and outside resources.
- Develops and approves requests for Capital Expenditures (RCE’s), safety assessments, audit reports, scope documents, etc.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Leads and mentors EHS professionals in technical and organizional areas.
- Participes in the evaluion of assigned staff / project team members and in the identificion of development needs.
- May supervise EHS professionals and other functional disciplines or be a functional lead. Works independently.
- Exercises considerable litude in determining technical objectives of assignment.
- Develops scenarios to give management a set of viable alternives and recommends actions.
- Decisions or recommendions would result in achievement of key organizional objectives and compliance
- Drives functional performance th meets required standards and regulory compliance.
Required Qualificions
- Bachelor’s Degree in EHS, Engineering, Science or reled field or equivalent combinion of educion and experience.
- 5+ years of experience administering a safety program.
- Working knowledge of governmental regulions and applicable standards such as EPA, OSHA, DOT and ISO.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment
Preferred Qualificions:
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The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00. In specific locions, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
