Job Description

Senior Associate - Safety & Occupational Hygiene

Ref No: AM18298

County Cork, Republic of Ireland

Competitive salary

Senior/Principal Associate - Safety and Occupational Hygiene: County Cork.

Key Responsibilities of this role:
• Provide specialist advice to management and workforce by interpreting health and safety legislation, corporate standards, policies and industry guidance.
• Assessing and controlling health hazards, including biological, chemical, ergonomic, physical, and psychosocial hazards.
• Undertake Qualitative and Quantitative Exposure Assessment surveys - write reports and communicate.
• Eliminate or significantly reduce risk by making organisational changes and selecting and designing relevant facilities
• Understand and implement health and safety requirements for new products and new project environment through knowledge of applicable legislation and industry practices.
• Support a mature safety culture with integrated safety practices and open safety conversations.
• Deliver high quality Health and Safety training, communications and technical support.
• Ensure company compliance and continuous improvement in Health and Safety and standards, systems and programmes.
• Investigate and provide legislative guidance during incident response.
• Liaising with and report to Environmental Health & Safety regulatory agencies and corporate auditing groups.
• Collaboration with site manufacturing and technical support personnel to manage Environmental Health & Safety aspects of current processes.
• Review process and equipment changes to identify potential Health & Safety impacts.

Interested applicants should have:
• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent experience) or similar.

- Ideally professional certification or working toward certification in Occupational Hygiene (e.g. CertOH, CIH).
- At least 3-5 years' experience in a similar role.
- Strong knowledge of relevant health and safety regulations and standards.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Skills:
- Experience in conducting risk assessments in pharmaceutical/chemical industrial settings.
- Proficiency with occupational hygiene monitoring equipment and software.
- Knowledge of ergonomics and human factors.
- Ability to deliver engaging training sessions.