Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Student Placement

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson MedTech is recruiting for an Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) student placement, located at our Leeds Manufacturing site. There is an opportunity for a person to work in the EH&S Department for a year, completing day to day EH&S activities and there will be some specific projects too.

This work may include: Risk assessments, job safety analysis and managing other documented risk control systems; Continuous improvements and looking into ways to reduce/recycle/improve waste streams and costs; Conducting internal EH&S audits; Completing/assisting with site safety inspections; Managing Good Saves database, chasing open actions to closure and collating information on these; Incidents - updating of statistics and identifying any trends for investigation; Assisting our local Facilities Management team with environmental related projects and tasks; Other related supporting or administrative tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support EH&S and Facilities Manager with daily activities

• Manage risk assessment database and oversee review of the system

• Conduct site inspections with colleagues and capture any actions

• Work on specific EH&S cost saving and improvement projects

• Investigation of any incidents and corrective actions required

• Assist with Good Saves monitoring programme

• Collect and analyse data for monthly Enterprise metrics

• Sustainability support - Tracking environmental footprints, managing waste or emissions data and supporting the organisation's green agenda or sustainability goals

Education

• We are looking for a student in their second or third year of their degree who has knowledge in environmental health and or safety.

Experience & Skills:

• Have an EHS background ideally or an element of these

• Great communicator and able to deal with a wide variety of different stakeholders within the business

• Ability to work independently

• High organisational skills, able to generate reports and work with record keeping systems

• Ability to problem solve and analyse situations

• Need to demonstrate enthusiasm, ambition and commitment

Preferred:

• We would prefer someone with health, safety, environmental experience but someone with a keen interest would also be suitable

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.