Purpose of position
Working within the site Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) department your role will be to ensure the successful integration of the new EPA IED Licence for the site, updating of associated procedures and training materials and completion of required reporting to the EPA.
Principal duties
- Liaise with EHS Programme Manager in ensuring all requirements of the IED licence are in place.
- Coordinate site environmental monitoring programme including wastewater, surface water , groundwater and atmospheric monitoring.
- Coordinate site wastewater characterisation.
- Ensure all elements of the Environmental Management System (as per ISO 14001) are in place.
In addition, duties may include
- Collate data and prepare quarterly monitoring reports for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
- Coordinate the tracking and closure of actions within the annual Environmental Management Programme (EMP).
- Assist in maintenance of the EPA ‘Contained Use’ permit for the site.
- Assisting in maintaining full waste management compliance including waste classification, waste records retention and waste contractor approval.
- Develop procedures and infrastructure to optimise waste reduction, reuse and recycling at the Campus.
- Assist in maintaining compliance with the Pfizer Corporate Waste Contractor Programme.
- Assist in maintaining compliance with the Emissions Trading permit for the site and support preparation of any materials related with the proposed permit update.
- Liaise with the site engineering team to ensure all regulatory requirements of environmental control equipment (e.g. neutralisation tank, heat inactivation systems and autoclaves are in place.
- Participate on the site wide Environmental Sub-Committee and provide technical guidance to this forum.
- To ensure that all environmental work is conducted in a safe, effective manner and in compliance with the appropriate industry standards.
- Participate in the development, maintenance, and review of the site health and safety programme to ensure that it meets legislative, corporate, and industry requirements.
- Ensure that necessary resources are identified to provide for the maintenance of a high-quality EHS programme.
- Liaise with other members of the EHS department to ensure transfer of best practices between areas.
- Assist on environmental incident investigations and follow-up of action items.
- Perform regular EHS self-assessment audits within the area and in-house EHS audits in other areas.
- Represent EHS during system walk-downs and close-out of punch-list items.
- Liaise with the rest of the EHS team to support EHS activity across the site.
- Assist in developing the environmental communications strategy for the Site