Senior EHS Specialist, Environmental

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As a champion of environmental, health, and safety values at Boston Scientific, the Senior EHS Specialist, Environmental, creates and maintains programs, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with company standards and relevant regulations. This role serves as a site resource for environmental concerns, ensuring the company meets and complies with all applicable air, water, and solid-waste regulations at the federal, state, and local levels, while also providing general EHS support across the site.

This position provides guidance, training, and support, while fostering engagement and contributions from EHS colleagues, internal stakeholders, and external partners to drive continuous improvement and sustainability initiatives.

This position follows an onsite work model and requires employees to work from our Arden Hills, Minnesota, location. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

• Providing environmental and general EHS site support for internal customers including manufacturing, process development, R&D laboratories, facilities, and engineering teams.
• Support and drive continuous improvement of the site's Environmental Management System (EMS) and support ISO 14001 certification activities.
• Enforcing environmental regulations to uphold compliance with all federal, state, and local regulatory laws by ensuring established procedures are followed correctly; maintaining the schedule of applications, forms, and permits required for the company’s operations.
• Developing and implementing programs to prevent or correct unsafe environmental conditions, utilizing knowledge of manufacturing processes, chemistry, laws, and environmental regulations.
• Leading and supporting environmental compliance programs related to air emissions, water, wastewater, stormwater, hazardous waste, universal waste, solid waste, chemical management, and spill prevention.
• Certifying the company’s compliance with regulations by analyzing operating records and test reports, and/or by personal observation and investigation, to determine conformance to established procedures, methods, and standards.
• Conducting audits, self-assessments, and inspections to ensure workplace conditions comply with internal policies, program requirements, and applicable local, state, and federal regulations.
• Conducting risk assessments on processes, equipment, chemicals, and waste streams; identifying compliance concerns, program non-conformities, and opportunities for improvement.
• Leading incident investigations, root cause analysis, and after-action reviews; collaborating with process owners to develop and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Supporting site sustainability initiatives focused on waste minimization, energy and water conservation, recycling, greenhouse gas reduction, responsible resource conservation, and sustainability initiatives.
• Corresponding and interacting with regulatory agencies, including federal, state, and local; conducting agency representatives through site facilities to explain operations and verify compliance.
• Providing technical guidance to management regarding environment-related issues, concerns, and regulatory compliance through personal expertise or by referring to the correct source(s).
• Staying abreast to changing environmental legislation and communicating significant regulatory changes and implementation strategies to affected stakeholders.
• Building and maintaining relationships with contracted environmental services, waste vendors, and consultants to support…