Senior Specialist Safety and Environment

**Job Description**:
Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

We aim to create workplace experiences that enable our people to be inspired to invent. Inside our organization, we provide workplace solutions that enable our people to do their very best work in safety. Outside our organization we ensure we protect the people around us, communities and the environment.

Our site in 1210 Vienna is a strategic location for solid drug manufacturing including tablets, coated tablets, granules and implants for the health provision and treatment of livestock and domestic animals. Most of our products are exported. To ensure sustainable company growth we continually strive to offer attractive career opportunities for more than 450 employees at our Vienna site. In support of our existing team we are currently looking for:
**Senior Specialist Safety and Environment (EHS) (f/m/d)**:
**Main Responsibilities**:

- Manage site EHS programs, including routine assessments, facilitating corrective measures as necessary and anticipating program needs based on relevant business conditions and developments
- Ensure facility compliance with local, Austrian and corporate standards and guidelines
- Ensure an effective implementation and maintenance of tailored site-level EHS programs including the recognition and reporting of any potential deficient situations/conditions with appropriate corrective actions
- Interact and communicate with corporate EHS, Compliance, Quality Assurances, Technical Services, Engineering, Manufacturing, Research & Development and Distribution representatives
- Work with local, country, and corporate representatives in conducting and completing audits and corrective actions
- Ensure the improvement and implementation of site-specific environmental, health and safety training to meet facility needs
- Conduct proper investigations to determine root cause for all facility incidents, spills, accidents, near misses, and injuries to prevent recurrence
- Advise management on upcoming environmental, health and safety regulations

**Requirements**:

- Technical (engineering, chemistry) primary degree with a post-grad EHS qualification
- Solid experience in a similar role within a highly regulated manufacturing environment, preferably in Pharmaceutical and/or Chemical Industry
- Relevant professional certification(s) (e.g. Sicherheitsfachkraft) required
- Experience on supporting multiple activities/projects and on working with EHS regulatory agencies and Corporate support functions
- Lean/Six Sigma experience advantageous
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Proven ability to develop sustainable cooperative professional relationships on all levels of the organization
- High ethical standards, being a role model of business compliance and integrity
- Demonstrated analytical and logical problem-solving abilities
- Flexibility to perform multiple, complex tasks simultaneously to efficiently support the business
- Fluency in written and spoken German and English

We offer an attractive salary, outstanding social benefits and an exciting work environment with varied tasks in an international environment. The minimum annual salary for this position is EUR 55.300;

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
Domestic

**VISA Sponsorship**:
No

**Travel Requirements**:
No Travel Required

**Flexible Work Arrangements**:
Not Specified

**Shift**:
Not Indicated

**Valid Driving License**:
No

**Hazardous Material(s)**:
n/a

**Number of Openings**:
1
**Requisition ID**:R173469