Environmental Health Specialist

ABOUT THE ROLE

The EHS Specialist will coordinate the environmental, health, and safety initiatives. They will assist site leadership with implementing site-specific policies and standards to ensure compliance with regulatory and Copan Diagnostics EH&S requirements, prevent injuries & illnesses, reduce workers’ compensation costs, and help create a strong EH&S culture.

RESPONSABILITIES

• The EHS Specialist in Collaboration with Management, retains the ability to halt any company functions proving unsafe.
• The EHS Specialist oversees the facility with safety as the focus.
• Collaborate with all department managers and supervisors to enforce safety guidelines through effective disciplinary action as per each case.
• Identifying environmental, health & safety risks and hazards in the workplace and implementing prevention programs.
• Advising site leaders and employees on how to minimize risks and hazards in the workplace and improve environmental, health & safety performance.
• Assisting the site in complying with applicable environmental, health & safety requirements.
• Training site employees on environmental, health & safety requirements.
• Assisting sites with implementing Copan Diagnostics EH&S programs, policies & standards, and EH&S management system.
• Training production managers to recognize hazards and risks and supporting production employees in identifying and controlling hazards and risks.
• Conducting environmental, health & safety inspections in the workplace.
• Supporting implementation of emergency procedures (such as fire alarm drills).
• Offering support for all general environmental, health & safety advice to all employees. In collaboration with department managers.
• Enhancing support to report all injuries, illnesses, and near misses to the EHS Manager, Employees, and Site Leadership.
• Completing site-specific EH&S reports and communicating performance with the site leadership.
• Tracking environmental, health & safety inspection and audit findings to closure.
• Assisting site EHS Manager with establishing and maintaining a site environmental, health & safety council.
• Sharing environmental, health & safety lessons learned and encouraging a learning culture on environmental, health & safety.
• Partnering closely with all site leaders to create, maintain, and improve our safety environment.

KEY COMPETENCES

• A bachelor’s degree in a safety-related program or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5 years’ experience in environmental, health & safety experience in a biomedical manufacturing organization.
• Bilingual in Spanish is a must. Must be able to speak, write, and read in English and Spanish.
• Strong communication, presentation, training and facilitation, and project management skills are essential.
• Able to work independently as well as within a team.
• Proficiency in LEAN and Continuous Improvement manufacturing principles.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Process safety management experience desired.
• Exemplary customer service skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills in analyzing safety & health data.
• Strong Microsoft software
• Preferred KPA Flex experience
• Ability to stand for large amounts of time.
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs.

Be a part of a dynamic and rapidly growing company. With a reputation for innovation, COPAN is the leading manufacturer of collection and transport systems in the world. COPAN’s collaborative approach to innovation in pre-analytics has resulted in the original FLOQSwabs, ESwab, FecalSwab, and UTM, as well as Full Laboratory Automation. COPAN’s collection and systems have been proven to advance the quality of traditional and contemporary microbiology assays. COPAN's automation includes specimen processing, smart incubation, digital imaging, and strong algorithms for the automatic segregation of bacterial cultures, followed by automated colony picking.