Senior EHS Advisor

Mylan Teoranta

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.
Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.
We do so via: 
Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and 
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services. 
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Senior EHS Advisor role will make an impact:

• Ensure that the site is operating fully in accordance with current legislation, particularly the Health, Safety and Welfare at Work Act, 2005 and General Applications Regulations, 2007.

• Ensure that policies and procedures are in place to ensure compliant and adequate management of risk, ensuring that the company operates a safe workplace with safe systems of work.

• Ensure the company meets its obligations under the Waste Management Act 1996.

• Highlight all pertinent environmental, health and safety concerns and issues, and to propose to management suitable means of addressing them.

• Coordinate all staff training relating to EHS as appropriate.

• Coordinate EHS internal audit programs.

• Maintain and generate EHS Metrics monthly.

• Develop and maintain site Risk Assessments program in accordance with regulatory and Viatris requirements and support the identification and implementation of risk reduction measures.

• Support the development and implementation of the site Industrial Hygiene Program to ensure suitable surveys and assessments are conducted and controls implemented to keep colleagues safe

• To review and re-issue, as and when required, safety-related Standard Operating Procedures.

• To monitor, review and develop incident and/ Safety Observation Reporting systems.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• A qualification in Occupational Health and Safety is required for this role, preferably Level 8.

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a similar role.

• Manual Handling Instructor’s Qualification desirable.

• Waste management and recycling experience.

• Trade effluent legislation and compliance.

• Air emissions legislation and compliance.

• Emergency response system implementation and management experience.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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