Health & Safety Officer - HIC- R&D

Job Title

Your role:

• Provides range of supporting activities to environment, health and safety team to ensure tasks are completed efficiently and effectively, exercising autonomy within established procedures.
• Performs periodic safety inspections, monitoring hazardous waste removal vendors, and may assist in consolidating hazardous wastes (chemical, radioactive, and/or medical).
• Maintains a detailed inventory of all safety equipment, tracking usage, maintenance schedules, and replacement dates to ensure that resources are always available and in optimal condition.
• Investigates workplace accidents and incidents, analyzing root causes, and preparing reports with actionable recommendations aimed at preventing future occurrences.
• Identifies, evaluates and utilizes administrative tools to improve health and safety processes, regularly reviewing and updating these tools to incorporate new features and functionalities.
• Maintains accurate records of safety inspections and audits, incidents and accidents, training sessions, and compliance activities to ensure transparency and accountability in safety practices.
• Supports the organization in complying with relevant federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations and standards and organization policies.
• Drafts limited improvement projects within a unit and introduces new supporting process activities that complement and enhance existing workflows, ensuring these activities are aligned with overall unit goals and objectives.
Utilizes specialized skills to perform in-depth analysis of assigned tasks, identifying key issues and patterns and resolves moderately complex problems.

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You're the right fit if you have :

• Over 3 years of experience in industrial safety, with a strong foundation in regulated environments
• Advanced Diploma in Industrial Safety with specialized knowledge applicable to medical device manufacturing and operations
• Hands-on experience deploying ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) in compliance-driven settings
• Proven ability to work within multinational organizations and align safety practices with global standards and counterparts
• Worked with cross-functional teams including Quality, Manufacturing, R&D, and Regulatory Affairs to implement safety and environmental protocols
• Skilled in risk assessments, incident investigations, and driving CAPA processes to ensure product and workplace safety
• Strong communicator with experience delivering safety training and awareness programs across diverse teams
• Familiarity with global regulatory expectations including FDA, EU MDR, and ISO 13485 frameworks will be preferred
• Willingness to travel extensively (50% of the times)

Preferred Skills:

• Regulatory Compliance

• Administrative Support

• Environment, Health and Safety Audit Execution

• Waste Management

• Documentation & Reporting

• Investigation

• Environment, Health and Safety Risk Management

• Environment, Health and Safety Knowledge

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here .