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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

**Job Title**

**EHS Specialist**

**Working at Abbott**

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

**The Opportunity**

This position works out of our Pleasanton, CA location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Our business mission is to pioneer life-changing technology that continuously improves the diagnosis, treatment, and management of heart failure to reduce the global burden of the disease. Relentlessly innovate to build smaller and smarter, connected therapies for patients and their doctors to improve access and empower people living with heart failure to enjoy their life with improved freedom from their disease.

Our location in Pleasanton, CA has around 500 employees and serves as the division’s headquarters for Heart Failure in the areas of development, quality and production of the **CentriMag** system and the **HeartMate 3**. Currently, we are expanding our innovative team in Pleasanton, CA and an exciting opportunity exists for a motivated and talented EHS professional. This position will support West Coast sites of Heart Failure with cross-divisional collaboration.

We are looking for an EHS professional who applies established EHS principles, practices, regulations and internal standards, interacts with customers and is solutions-minded in completing EHS assignments.

**What You’ll Work On**

**Project Management**:

- Plans and conducts assigned projects.
- Coordinates and monitors activities/projects.
- Assists planning and monitoring status of implementation for those assigned to project.
- Makes judgments regarding quality of implementation.
- Facilitates the definition of a project scope with stakeholders. Estimates and coordinates resources needed to accomplish assigned individual tasks.
- Jointly responsible for achieving the project’s EHS targets in support of business objectives.

**Technical**:

- Applies technical knowledge/skills to EHS programs and systems. Knowledge of local and federal EHS regulations and standards.
- Benchmarks internally across the organization.
- Investigates and performs analysis. Reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and action plans.

**Problem Solving/Innovation**:

- Interprets problems/recommends solutions.
- Identifies, analyzes, and resolves existing/new EHS challenges.
- Analyzes patterns/trends, interprets data and makes recommendations.
- Make suggestions to improve methods/designs/processes.
- Recognizes and implements good ideas/innovations. Consistently generates/adopts original solutions to problems and reduces them to practices.
- Conduct incident and accident investigations, identify root causes, and develop corrective action plans to prevent recurrence.

**Organizational Interface**:

- Establishes contacts with immediate supervisor, project leaders, and other professionals.
- Prepares written communication. Conveys information effectively and in a timely manner through formal and informal documents and meetings with team members, both internal and external to Abbott, using appropriate communication protocols, e.g. develops proposals, conducts reviews, provides audience targeted content, prepares project summaries.
- Contributes willingly and incorporates the ideas of others, shares resources, knowledge, and accountability to benefit the objectives of the business, understands own limitations.
- Establish and build relationships, good communication and ensure stakeholder satisfaction. Initiates and cultivates open, professional relationships with stakeholders by establishing rapport, developing an understanding of others’ needs, promoting comm