Technician II-Emergency Services at Elanco in Clinton, Indiana

Job Description:

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Clinton Labs’ Emergency Services Department is responsible for ownership and administration of Asset protection, Loss Prevention, Life Safety Systems and Emergency Response for Clinton Laboratories.   Positions within this department include Emergency Services Coordinator and Emergency Services Officer. This position provides the primary Asset protection and emergency services function for the plant.  Asset protection services include perimeter checks, surveillance, physical checks, traffic management and access control.  Emergency services responsibilities include fire, spill & release mitigation, confined space rescue, and medical response..

Functions, Duties, Tasks:

Emergency Services Normal Operations

• Primary interface with all visitors, employees, contractors, delivery or other service personnel.


• Complete daily, weekly and monthly tasks and inspections


• Conduct Indiana Dept of Homeland Security Asset protection perimeter checks.


• Processes incoming traffic/deliveries


• Makes clear, concise Plant announcements via E.A. System.


• Must maintain confidential/sensitive information.


• Must be available and willing to work extensive overtime to adequately staff department.


• Process incoming phone calls courteously and professionally.


• Function as an instructor/leader during training of emergency responders.


• Be able to professionally confront individuals violating site policies for which Emergency Services are responsible.

Emergency Services Special Operations (some dependent upon DHS threat levels)

• May have to conduct search of all vehicles entering plant.


• May have to conduct bomb searches.


• May be required to escort individual (employee, visitor, and contractor) from plant.


• May be required to monitor severe weather from mobile unit.

Emergency Services

• Provide primary response to all fires, spills, rescues, and medical incidents.


• Operate in the role of emergency response team Incident commander and Operational division Chief during emergencies and training.

• Develop proficiency in operating and training on all emergency response and asset protection equipment including fire trucks, ambulance and patient assessment tools, radios, environmental monitors, fire and haz mat PPE, rescue rigs and extraction tools, supplied air, alarm systems, scales, intrusion detection, etc.

Safety

• Assure a safe environment for training the ERT, during actual or simulated responses, and in all daily departmental activities. 


• Participate in pre-emergency planning and assist in the implementation of the emergency plans with building representatives.


• Participate in Process Hazard Reviews, as necessary.


• Primary resource for monitoring and communicating severe weather in site vicinity.


• Explains Plant Safety policies to visitors, contractors, etc.

Loss Prevention Support

• Assist with PMs and other testing of the fire protection and life safety systems (alarms and announcement systems).

Project Team Support

• Own or support departmental projects as assigned.


• Interface with Maintenance, Loss Prevention, HSE, Procurement, contractors, and third parties relating to emergency services/asset protection systems.

Process Improvement

• Assist in procedure reviews and improvements to departmental processes.


• Use personal expertise and experience to assist department in continuous improvement.


• Attend required or mandatory training to maintain minimum certifications and higher-level expertise, as determined by the departmental training team and regulations.

Minimum Qualification (education, experience and/or training, required certifications):

Education/Experience:

• High School/Equivalent


• Current or prior participation on an emergency response team (Fire Brigade/Hazmat – Elanco or external) is required and will be considered in candidate selection.


• Site and/or Elanco approved emergency response training must be taken as soon as possible in the disciplines of Hazmat, Firefighting, Confined Space Rescue, and Emergency Medical Service. Annual refresher training is required.

Required Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills


• Computer skills: position requires use of several common computer business applications (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email, calendaring and computerized procedure systems.)


• Well-organized, self-starter, ability to problem solve.


• Be able to train others and develop meaningful scenarios.


• Represent the company in a professional and courteous manner to all employees, guests, and contractors.


• Facilitate customer business processes by understanding company policies and business needs.


• The ability to make and execute prioritized decisions protecting life safety, the environment, and site assets (in that order) under high stress conditions, under an incident command structure, is required.


• Must pass ERT Medical Panel and quantitative fit test for SCBA. 


• State of Indiana Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B or higher) or certification thru National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.


• State of Indiana Firefighter I/II or International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC)  Firefighter I/II


• State of Indiana Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations or International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC) Hazmat 1st Responder Awareness/Operations. Must obtain State of Indiana Hazardous Materials Technician or International fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC) Hazmat Technician within 2 years of accepting job offer.

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Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status