Safety, Health and Environment Specialist

**Mission/**Purpose of the Job**:
**To ensure that the Edwards EMEA SEMI Customer Centre personnel working on the european sites carry out their roles safely and with minimum adverse impact on the environment. To ensure that local and corporate governance according to Atlas Copco and local administration needs are met.**:
**Main Responsibilities**:

- Ensures that SHE Management System and strategy are effectively implemented in accordance with the EMEA SEMI Customer Centre.
- Identify and update SHE related laws and regulations to ensure SHE compliance based on the legal requirements.
- Take part in internal and external SHE management system’s audits to ensure that the SHE management system operates effectively.
- Support to carry out product risk assessment/environment registration, make sure the general risk assessment and environment registration will be updated to the latest.
- Provide SHE induction/training to new and frontline employees regularly. Run the LeadSafe/ActSafe program frequently to raise employee’s safety awareness and improve safe behaviours.
- Prepare and maintain necessary regulatory documentation and reports.
- Monitor Edwards EMEA SEMI Customer Centre OH factors (Heavy metal/Noise/Chemical) and environment factors regularly to meet the related SHE standards.
- Support, train the SHE Champions of each zone and participate in the local SHE Committee.
- Undertake investigations to incidents and report them as required with documentation and in the reporting system.
- To assess and monitor Service engineers to ensure correct PPE and procedures are carried out.
- Interfacing with the customer on equipment i.e ergo assessments and lifting equipment

**Skills / Knowledge / Experience**:

- Qualification in an engineering discipline with a work based qualification in Environmental Health & Safety or a qualification in Safety engineering, environmental engineering with a mechanical technical background.
- The job holder must be an accomplished safety specialist with a track record of improved safety performance.
- Strong communication skills, organisational awareness and impact and influencing skills area prerequisite.
- Self Starter, effective time manager and effective line manager.
- Assertive, diplomatic with a good appreciation of business and commercial issues.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, orientation in modern IT structures and processes. SAP desirable.
- Proficient in English - written and speaking.
- Other languages is a plus

**Scope of the job**:

- The purpose of the role is to support the local Edwards EMEA SEMI Customer Centre management objectives in the areas relating to Safety and the Environment, to ensure that policies and procedures which fulfil company goals for the safety of employees and customers are being complied with.
- The job requires directing the work of the Edwards EMEA SEMI Customer Centre employees, monitoring SHE performance, managing regular site audits, attending regular SIM meetings, playing a major role in reducing, investigating and eliminating accidents.
- The jobholder provides the voice of safety, health and environment in the Edwards EMEA SEMI Customer Centre in Ireland.
- The jobholder supports the management in all aspects of safety, health, environment to ensure an operation according to the legal and company reuirements.

**About Edwards**

Edwards has over 4,000 employees worldwide engaged in the design, manufacture and support of high technology vacuum and exhaust management equipment. Edwards has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America.