Environmental, Health & Safety Advisor

Lifescan • Full-time • Inverness • 2w ago

Company Overview

LifeScan is a global leader in blood glucose monitoring and digital health technology and has a vision to create a world without limits for people with diabetes and related conditions. More than 20 million people and their caregivers around the world count on LifeScan’s OneTouch products to manage their diabetes. The team has an unwavering commitment to quality in the development of agile products and digital platforms defined by simplicity, accuracy, and trust to enable knowledge, wellness, and health of individuals. At LifeScan we believe our talented and passionate team is what makes us special.

Position Summary

The position of Environmental, Health and Safety Advisor is to assist in overseeing the organisation's Environmental, Health & Safety operations, ensuring high standards are attained, continually improved and all legal obligations are met.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Ideally, the EH&S Advisor will have knowledge of Manufacturing principles and have extensive experience operating in an Environmental, Health & Safety role. Ability to work independently and as part of a wider Environmental, Health & Safety team is key, as is experience working with Occupational Health.

Key duties are to:

Support the delivery of a single approach to Environmental, Health & Safety that meets the organisation’s needs, statutory duties and the expectations of key stakeholders with respect to Environmental, Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
Further develop and deliver Environmental, Health & Safety management systems, processes, procedures and culture to ensure continual improvement and industry best practice.
Provide technical expertise in diverse Environmental, Health and Safety programs which may include machine safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, sustainability, biosafety and chemical management.
At its core EHS is about people; communicating, inspiring and motivating is the thread that runs through everything that we do.

Key Experience Requirements

Ability to proactively engage, challenge & influence colleagues to deliver Environmental, Health & Safety compliance and drive continual improvement in Environmental, Health & Safety performance.

Assuring the Environmental, Health & Safety Manager and Leadership Teams, by means of appropriate monitoring and intervention, that the company’s operations fulfils its obligations under Environmental, Health & Safety legislation.

To do this you will need a minimum of 5 years development in a comparable role and evidence some, or all, of the following:

NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent
EH&S Internal Auditor (ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001)
Chartered member of IOSH, or actively working towards
Membership of ISEP, or actively working towards

Evidence of current CPD in EH&S

We will help you develop your potential, so even though you may not be able to tick every box for this role, if you can evidence similar skills we would still like you to apply.