Director, Environmental Health and Safety

Job Summary :

Contributes to policies and procedures to ensure teams development, implementation, and overseeing of strategies and programs to enable compliance with applicable federal, state, and local Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) regulatory requirements, and organizational EH&S and Workplace Safety (WPS) policies and standards. Shapes and executes strategy for Environmental Health and Safety programs to ensure success. Ensures employee safety and protection by influencing strategic goals for Environmental Health and Safety programs and training efforts. Ensures high-quality service by establishing guidelines and procedures for resolving issues and acting as a guiding resource on impactful EH&S and WPS matters. Conducts strategic planning for identification, analysis, documentation, and communication of workplace environmental health and safety risk trends. Conducts strategic planning for preparing high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety. Advances risk control by driving improvements in workplace safety and compliance and evaluation of the effectiveness of measures to improve workplace safety outcomes.

Essential Responsibilities :

Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.

Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and / or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.

Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams.

Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues.

Drives compliance by : actively contributing to the development of policies and procedures to ensure developing, implementing, and overseeing strategies and programs to enable compliance with applicable federal, state, and local Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) regulatory requirements, and organizational EH&S and Workplace Safety (WPS) policies and standards; leading interactions and collaborating on high-impact projects with all EH&S regulatory, accreditation, and grant agency inspections and surveys (e.g., The Joint Commission [TJC], Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], Division of Occupational Health and Safety [DOHS], Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA], State Fire Marshall, state and public health county inspections); driving a culture of compliance, holding teams accountable for compliance with, and contributing to Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures and Principles of Responsibilities as they relate to Environmental Health and Safety; developing best practices for the completion and submission of regulatory reports within appropriate time frames; championing forward-thinking solutions to drive strategic plans for process improvements in compliance; and communicating to senior leadership and influencing adoption of regulatory compliance matters and their impact on Environmental Health and Safety.

Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.

Supports training and continuous learning about Environmental Health and Safety by : driving a culture of continuous learning and holding teams accountable for integration of learning into work strategies; influencing strategic goals for safety education and training programs for management and staff (e.g., proper use of tools and equipment, risk factors contributing to ergonomic hazards) based on organizational needs; and driving alignment and holding teams accountable for competency assessments to measure and ensure training effectiveness.

Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and / or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies.

Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement.

Directs safety practices by : holding teams accountable for educating employees, leaders, and other key stakeholders on employee safety; ensuring employee safety and protection by promoting a culture of safety through appropriate reporting, investigation, and analysis of employee safety incidents; shaping standards for safety-related activities for all employees; championing the creation, review, refinement of the employee safety program in alignment with organizational goals; and driving evaluation and design of systems to improve employee safety in alignment with industry standards.

Directs Health and Safety programs by : executing on strategic, long-term goals for comprehensive environmental health and safety programs across the market; executing plans for conducting comprehensive assessments and analyses to evaluate health and safety program(s) in alignment with long-term goals, and holding teams accountable for its implementation; and shaping Health and Safety programs based on analyses, observations, industry best practices, and strategic organizational goals.

Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.

Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources.

Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internalcollaborative networks for self and others.

Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by : developing strategic planning to establish priorities for assessments and key trends and develop guidelines for risk identification (e.g., assessments and data analysis); conducting strategic planning for preparing high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety; and holding teams accountable for documentation and communication to enable tracking / trending of safety information.

Advances risk control by : driving innovative changes that promote workplace safety and compliance (e.g., accident prevention, hazardous materials management, fire / life safety); and driving evaluation of large-scale change initiatives.

Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs.

Champions high-quality service by : leveraging advanced strategies to develop guidelines for the responses to and resolution of complaints and issues in alignment with organizational goals and minimization of liability and risk; and initiating collaboration with local administration, managers, physicians, and staff on EH&S and WPS matters (e.g., environmental management, industrial hygiene, safety).

Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives.

Minimum Qualifications :

Minimum seven (7) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.

Bachelors degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Natural Science, Engineering, Emergency Management, or related field AND Minimum eight (8) years of experience in environmental health and safety, risk management, or directly related field OR Minimum eleven (11) years of experience in environmental health and safety, risk management, or a directly related field.

Safety Professional Certificate within 24 months of hire OR Health Safety Professional Certificate within 24 months of hire OR Industrial Hygienist Certificate within 24 months of hire

Additional Requirements :

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) : Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery; Risk Management; Compliance Management; Safety and Environmental Health Management; Employee Training; Employee / Labor Relations; Work Process Design; Computer Literacy; Adaptability; Risk Identification; Member Service; Safety Trend Analysis; Compliance; Ergonomics; Emergency Preparedness; Safety and Environmental Health Knowledge; Employee and Physician Safety

COMPANY : KAISER

TITLE : Director, Environmental Health and Safety

LOCATION : Hyattsville, Maryland

REQNUMBER : 1364505

External hires must pass a background check / drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and / or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.