Director, Environmental Health and Safety

Kaiser Permanente • Hyattsville, MD

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About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Experience in Environmental Health and Safety management.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Ability to develop and implement policies and procedures.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local EH&S regulations.
• Experience in strategic planning and risk management.

Nice To Haves

• Certification in Environmental Health and Safety.
• Experience with regulatory compliance inspections.
• Familiarity with industry best practices in workplace safety.

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.
• 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 EH&S regulatory requirements.
• Leads interactions and collaborates on high-impact projects with all EH&S regulatory, accreditation, and grant agency inspections and surveys.
• Drives 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.
• Develops best practices for the completion and submission of regulatory reports within appropriate time frames.
• Champions forward-thinking solutions to drive strategic plans for process improvements in compliance.
• Communicates to senior leadership and influences adoption of regulatory compliance matters and their impact on Environmental Health and Safety.
• 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.
• Influences strategic goals for safety education and training programs for management and staff based on organizational needs.
• Directs safety practices by holding teams accountable for educating employees, leaders, and other key stakeholders on employee safety.
• Ensures employee safety and protection by promoting a culture of safety through appropriate reporting, investigation, and analysis of employee safety incidents.
• Shapes standards for safety-related activities for all employees; champions the creation, review, refinement of the employee safety program in alignment with organizational goals.
• Drives evaluation and design of systems to improve employee safety in alignment with industry standards.
• Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by developing strategic planning to establish priorities for assessments and key trends.
• Conducts strategic planning for preparing high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety.
• Advances risk control by driving innovative changes that promote workplace safety and compliance.
• 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.

Benefits

• 401k
• health insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• paid holidays
• tuition reimbursement
• professional development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree