Environmental Health and Safety Engineer

Who we are

If you're like people at Teva, you dare to be different. We're making well-being a way of life for our customers and our colleagues. Join us in helping to make healthcare more accessible to more patients, while supporting one of the most innovative teams in the industry.

Teva is a global pharmaceutical leader and the world's largest generic medicines producer, committed to improving health and increasing access to quality health solutions worldwide. Our employees are at the core of our success, with colleagues in over 80 countries delivering the world's largest medicine cabinet to 200 million people every day. We offer a uniquely diverse portfolio of products and solutions for patients, and we've built a promising pipeline centered around our core therapeutic areas. We are continually developing patient-centric solutions and significantly growing both our generic and specialty medicines business through investment in research and development, marketing, business development and innovation. This is how we improve health and enable people to live better, healthier lives.

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The opportunity

Under general supervision, provides the ability to lead industrial safety risk management and manufacturing evaluation for a wide variety of topics and situations. To be successful the Industrial Safety Engineer needs to have strong technical, mechanical and operational knowledge based in manufacturing. Understand industrial safety, process risk, and drive technical and management system solutions. The Industrial Safety Engineer is focused on continuous improvement of industrial and manufacturing safety risk identification, process safety programs and work processes for the site.

* Please be aware that there are 2 SLC locations. This position is for the East location.

579 Chipeta Way

Salt Lake City, UT 84108

How you'll spend your day

This is not intended as a comprehensive list; it is intended to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed, and may be required to perform additional, position-specific tasks.

⦁ Carries out responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, procedures, and state, federal and local laws.

⦁ Interprets and evaluates Safety Data Sheets for the site's materials and products.

⦁ Provide expertise on industrial safety risk assessments and risk management processes, methods, and standards; leading industrial safety risk assessments across the site, coaching others in risk management methodology, and ensuring environmental, health and safety compliance.

⦁ Identify and oversee production process improvements with Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs).

⦁ Provide education to employees on risk identification and drive engagement to reduce risks across the site. Promote and maintain a high level of safety consciousness among employees to instill a safety culture in the workforce.

⦁ Performs complex Risk Assessments, Job Safety Analysis, and safe work planning/permitting.

⦁ Performs comprehensive machine guarding assessments aligned with Teva and OSHA requirements.

⦁ Assist in design reviews for proposed new and modified facilities, processes, equipment, and tooling for compliance with company, local, and federal requirements.

⦁ Develop and maintain systems to monitor EHS program performance and drive performance improvements based on leading and lagging indicators.

⦁ Respond to incidents and assist in performing incident investigations.

⦁ Understands and executes comprehensive Root Cause Analysis with corrective/preventive action reports.

⦁ Ensures compliance with all Company policies and procedures, including safety rules and regulations.

⦁ Leads the work of or participates in EHS project teams

⦁ Works independently with little direction from manager, self-driven and can manage multiple projects.

⦁ Uses best practices and knowledge of internal SOPs, Teva Standards, and industry best practices to help ensure a safe and healthy workplace.

⦁ Review and evaluate drafts of site production records and SOPs, and laboratory test methods for EHS impacts as needed.

⦁ Experience with building and sustaining EHS culture initiatives that drive positive leading indicator performance.

⦁ Experience working with outside contractors for various facility and equipment projects to ensure adherence to site and applicable regulatory standards.

⦁ Technical writing experience

⦁ Experienced with delivering myriad EHSS training topics.

⦁ Ergonomic assessments following RULA, NIOSH, MSD Risk assessment tools, etc.

⦁ Other job duties as assigned.

Your experience and qualifications

* Bachelor's Degree in Science, Occupational Health and Safety, Engineering or other safety related field from an accredited college or university
* A minimum of 3 years of industrial safety experience in a highly regulated environment. Pertinent federal, state and local laws, codes and regulations relating to Environmental, Health and Safety.
* ANSI, NFPA and other consensus standards.
* Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
* Principles of industrial safety and related practices.
* English usage, spelling, grammar and punctuation.
* Machine guarding standards and practices.
* Ergonomics standards and evaluation tools.
* Lean manufacturing concepts.
* Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) requirements and guidelines.
* Training and presentation skills, techniques, applications and practices.
* Business and personal computer hardware and software applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
* EHS management systems including basis of safety.
* Experience with high risk work activities and risk mitigation (e.g. confined space entry, work at heights, etc.)



Enjoy a more rewarding choice

We offer a competitive benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage starting on the first day. We also offer Disability and Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, 13 paid Holidays, 6% match on the 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and Tuition Assistance.

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