Employee Health and Safety Professional - Santa Clara, CA

Company: Agilent
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: October 11, 2021

Job Description:

As a healthcare company committed to protecting the health and safety for our employees, contractors, customers and communities, employees in this role are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless an accommodation has been granted for a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief.

Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic, and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications, and expertise. Agilent enables customers to gain the answers and insights they seek -- so they can do what they do best: improve the world around us. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.

As an Employee Health and Safety professional, you will tackle sophisticated, high impact EHS program/ process design, and implementation problems; provide technical support to Agilent manufacturing facility and divisions for comprehensive risk assessments, exposure assessment, process hazard assessments, ergonomic assessments, and EHS management program understanding and implementation. In this role, your efforts will impact how we keep our staff, clients, and facilities safe and operational. You can make a difference!

Primary Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Ensuring compliance with Agilent Environmental, Health Safety Regulations, and Procedures for the site and recommend to the company the training required for compliance
• Conduct safety training for employees; facilitate in the risk assessment activities to ensure that it aligns with the global requirements/regulations and local legal requirement/regulations
• Apply scientific and engineering principles to drive EHS risk reduction efforts and compliance activities; provide technical support and training of advanced EHS assessments, evaluations, and control technologies for Agilent EHS contacts
• Support incident investigation efforts for assigned divisions and EHS specific elements
• Participate in EHS audits and/or self-assessments; maintain an EHS Management system that conforms to ISO 14001 and Agilent's Corporate EHSMS, FDA, and ISO 13485
• Influence Agilent and facility processes to address EHS understanding and lead projects to reduce EHS risk and hazard business impact
• Perform and guide technical EHS activities resulting from approved self-initiated or assigned projects and programs leading to innovative applications and extensions of existing or new programs/systems having major importance to the business within the assigned area of responsibility; define EHS project timelines and outcomes
• Establish and nurture an extensive network of intra-divisional support (facility, lab, manufacturing, and engineering) to facilitate the completion of assignments
• Communicate project or program status to EHS and local operational management
• Provide EHS knowledge and services on existing and new programs for assigned location; analyze EHS data and reports trends and results to WPS management
• Recommend plans for correction of gaps, and provides EHS input to address change (e.g. in plant Management of Change processes, or new Business/Country/Corporate programs)
• Communicate effectively in written and oral formats with peers and others at varying levels within the organization. Present ideas well one-on-one, in small groups, and to larger audiences
• Have the ability to convey the meaning and importance of EHS topics to non-EHS personnel, and to influence others to take appropriate action based on such information
• Actively seek to continually improve communication and presentation skills; assist in developing and implementing emergency response procedures and evaluation plans

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