Principal Environmental Specialist - North Haven, CT

Medtronic plc; North Haven (CT); On-site; USD 115,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health Savings Account

Healthcare Flexible Spending Account

Life insurance

Long-term disability leave

Tuition assistance/reimbursement

401(k) plan plus employer contribution

Short-term disability

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Employee Assistance Program

Non-qualified Retirement Plan</name>

Capital Accumulation Plan

Job summary

Medtronic is seeking a Principal Environmental Specialist in North Haven, CT to lead regulatory environmental programs. Responsibilities include managing wastewater, stormwater, air emissions, EPCRA reporting, and related documentation, while driving training and awareness across the site.

The role reports to the Senior EHS Manager and involves collaboration with manufacturing, R&D, and operations to ensure compliance and minimize environmental impact. In-person onsite work is required.

Qualifications

• Regulatory compliance in environmental programs (water, air, SPCC, SPCP, SMP, EPCRA) and associated reporting.
• Experience preparing and presenting environmental training materials and alerts.
• Maintain regulatory and company documentation, reports, inspections, and sampling as required.

Responsibilities

• Manage compliance to environmental regulatory programs (wastewater, stormwater, air emissions, SPCC, SPCP, SMP, USTs, EPCRA reporting, ozone depleting substances).
• Promote employee awareness and provide training on regulatory requirements and company policies.
• Prepare and submit regulatory reports (air emissions, EPCRA 312/313, DMRs, SMRs) and coordinate inspections.
• Evaluate new projects for regulatory impact and permit changes.
• Communicate regulatory requirements to site leadership and develop implementation plans.
• Co-lead Environmental Action Group and drive continuous improvement.
• Work with management to ensure regulatory compliance and resolve issues.
• Investigate environmental incidents with root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Monitor pollution prevention, reduce waste, energy, and water usage.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Environmental regulations

Training & awareness

Documentation management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

High School Diploma + 10+ years

Associate’s Degree + 8+ years

Bachelor’s Degree + 6+ years

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 26 Oct 2026 Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

In this exciting role your primary objective will be to develop and implement environmental programs and systems required to comply with federal, state and local environmental regulations, company policies, strategies, initiatives and goals. The Principal Environmental Specialist position is part of the diverse North Haven EHS Team that ensures our employees have a safe work environment, our manufacturing processes and products minimize environment impacts, and compliance with regulatory and company requirements is maintained. This position reports to the Senior EHS Manager for Medtronic’s North Haven campus. The North Haven campus has approximately 2,800 employees and includes a diverse work force focused on Manufacturing Excellence, Research & Development, Surgical Robotics and Administrative functions. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Manage compliance to environmental regulatory programs including wastewater, stormwater, air emissions, oil spill prevention (SPCC), spill prevention and control (SPCP), solvent management (SMP), underground storage tanks, EPCRA reporting, and ozone depleting substances (greenhouse gas and refrigerant management).
• Provide/promote employee awareness on environmental regulatory and company requirements including preparing and presenting training materials, EHS Tips and Alerts.
• Maintain all documentation required by regulatory / company requirements including preparing and submitting regulatory required reports (examples include annual air emissions summary and compliance certification, EPCRA 312 and 313, quarterly and semi-annual ethylene oxide sterilization CEMs reporting, stack tests, DMRs and SMRs) and completing/overseeing the necessary inspections and/or sampling.
• Evaluate new construction projects, new processes, and process changes to determine the regulatory impact including the need for permit changes.
• Communicate and develop the process for implementing applicable regulations / company requirements.
• Co-lead the implementation of the site’s Environmental Action Group.
• Review and analyze proposed and promulgated regulations; determine and effectively communicate impact to site leadership.
• Work with site management to ensure compliance to requirements, resolve compliance issues and set strategy.
• Work with cross functional team to investigate environmental incidents and ensure root cause is identified and corrective / preventative actions are implemented.
• Monitor pollution prevention activities, supports efforts to reduce environmental impact from waste generation, energy usage and water usage.
• Prepare and submit company required reporting including the usage of chemicals with global warming potential.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma (or equivalent) AND 10+ years experience OR Associate’s Degree AND 8+ years experience OR Bachelor’s Degree AND 6+ years experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with managing industrial Wastewater, Stormwater and Air Permitting compliance programs
• Master's degree in Environmental Engineering or similar subject matter
• Experience reviewing and interpreting EPA and CT DEEP regulations
• Experience complying with a NESHAP
• Experience preparing and submitting environmental regulatory reports (examples include EPCRA reporting, Annual Air Emissions Summary, DMRs, SMRs)
• Experience working with Governmental Agencies
• Experience sampling Wastewater and Stormwater
• Experience complying with regulatory requirements for Ethylene Oxide Sterilization
• Experience with Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (CEMS)

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$115,200.00 - $172,800.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.

Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes.

Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are.

Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work.

Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning.

Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us.

We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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