HSE Specialist, RLT Sasayama

<p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Description Summary</b></p>Protect people. Protect the environment. Shape the future.<br>As an HSE Specialist at our Sasayama site, you will connect the front line with leadership, anticipate health, safety, and environmental risks, and turn insight into action. From regulatory compliance to accident prevention and environmental protection, you will drive audits, data-driven improvements, and a strong safety culture. Working with regulators, local communities, and our global HSE team, you’ll embed best practices across biosafety, radiation safety, process safety, and environmental management—making “safe and easy to work” the everyday standard.<p style="text-align:inherit"><br /> </p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Description</b></p><div><h2>Key Responsibilities</h2><ul><li>Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and maintain and continuously improve the HSE management system</li><li>Implement and promote policies and initiatives to prevent accidents and occupational illnesses and to protect the environment</li><li>Collect, validate, and report site HSE data to the global team</li><li>Conduct risk assessments and manage mitigation plans, corrective actions, and follow-up activities</li><li>Audit and review work practices to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies</li><li>Support incident investigations and root cause analyses, and deploy improvement measures across the global organization</li></ul></div><p></p><div><h2>Essential Requirements</h2><ul><li>Education level not specified</li><li>Certified Radiation Protection Supervisor (Class 1)</li><li>Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in the EHS (Environment, Health &amp; Safety) field, industry background not required</li><li>Strong communication skills in Japanese for internal and vendor interactions</li><li>Business-level English proficiency, both written and spoken</li></ul></div><p></p><p><b>Be aware of fake job advertisements and job offers</b></p><p>Novartis is aware of employment scams which make false use of our company name or leader’s names to defraud job seekers. Novartis does not make job offers without interview and never asks candidates for money. </p><p>All our current job openings are displayed <a href="https://www.novartis.com/jp-ja/careers" target="_blank">here</a>. If you have encountered a job posting or been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond, send money or personal information.</p><p></p><p><b>Why Novartis: </b>Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? <a href="https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture" target="_blank">https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture</a></p><p></p><p><b>Join our Novartis Network:</b> Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: <a href="https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network" target="_blank">https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network</a></p><p></p><p><b>Benefits and Rewards: </b>Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: <a href="https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards" target="_blank">https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards</a></p><p></p><p><b>Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: </b>Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.</p><p></p><p><b>Accessibility and accommodation: </b>Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to midcareer- r.japan&#64;novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.</p><p></p><p style="text-align:inherit"><br /> </p><p style="text-align:left"><b>Skills Desired</b></p>Decision Making, emergency response planning, environmental management, GDP Knowledge, gmp knowledge, Hse Management Systems, Incident Investigation &amp; Reporting, Occupational Hygiene, occupational safety, Problem Solving, Regulatory Compliance, risk assessment &amp; management