Safety, Health & Organizational Effectiveness Manager

Energy Northwest•Richland, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is reassignment eligible for internal employees. GENERAL SUMMARY: Provide ownership and station leadership of the Industrial Safety, Occupational Health and Organizational Effectiveness departments. This position has direct responsibility for the Industrial Safety Program, Occupational Health Clinic, and INPO cross-functional area of Organizational Effectiveness. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: Champion the development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of comprehensive, industry‑leading workplace safety, occupational health, and organizational effectiveness programs to ensure a healthy, safe, reliable, effective and compliant work environment for all employees. This includes ensuring effective leadership, alignment, and integration across all program areas. Develop, direct and sustain programs and systems to track, evaluate and effectively address injury, illness, and occupational health trends, including leading indicators, behavioral metrics, and culture‑related indicators. Conduct trend analyses, audits, accident investigations, and facility/site inspections. Use data to inform leadership and recommend initiatives that proactively reduce risk. Ensure facility inspections, surveys, and design reviews incorporate appropriate industrial safety, occupational health, and human performance requirements. Validate that safety and health criteria are included in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of systems and facilities. Be the leading voice that provides strategic leadership and serves as the primary interface with Energy Northwest’s board, senior leadership, INPO, WANO, industry peers, and regulatory agencies in assigned areas of responsibility, delivering programmatic vision, guidance, requirements, reports, and recommendations related to facility and employee safety, regulatory expectations, human performance, and operating experience (OE) outcomes. Drive continuous improvement through training program enhancements, performance assessments, improvement planning, culture evaluations, and integration of OE tools and methodologies into site and corporate business practices. Guide OE committees and cross‑functional working groups, while overseeing preparation of materials and facilitation of safety, health, and OE meetings, ensuring effective communication, engagement, and feedback loops across work groups and leadership teams. Ensure strong integration between corporate support organizations and site operations through Corporate Evaluation Readiness, Plant Evaluation Readiness, Organizational Readiness reviews, and other INPO‑aligned evaluation processes, including measurement of program effectiveness and implementation of improvement actions. Oversee the development, delivery, and assessment of safety‑related, occupational health, and human performance training, including behavior‑based safety concepts, leadership development, fall protection, injury prevention, emergency response, and OE‑related competencies. Administer and oversee the agency’s CPR/AED, First Aid and ergonomic assessment programs, ensuring compliance with regulatory and industry standards, maintaining instructor qualifications where needed, and ensuring timely training, refresher cycles, and performance tracking across the organization. Provide oversight and delivery of recurring safety and industrial training, such as Fall Protection, CPR/AED, First Aid, and other required programs. Maintain deep knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local regulations; INPO and NRC guidance; WISHA and OSHA standards; and other relevant industry benchmarks, interpreting evolving requirements and advising leadership on strategic and operational impacts and risks. Maintain full oversight of the Occupational Health Program, including clinic operations, regulatory compliance, employee medical qualifications and wellness surveillance, and occupational health risk reduction strategies. Provide leadership, management and guidance to assigned staff, including appropriate resource allocation, assignment, scheduling, training and problem resolution. Must participate on the Emergency Response (ERO) team when designated. Must support the biennial refueling outage.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and at least eight years of experience in an industrial work environment.
Experience must include one of the following: 3 years supervisory/management experience and 4 years Industrial Safety, Performance Improvement, Human Performance, or Organizational Effectiveness experience; OR 8 years Industrial Safety, Performance Improvement, Human Performance, or Organizational Effectiveness experience.
An Associates degree and an additional ten years of related experience or, a high school diploma/GED and an additional twelve years of related experience may be considered in lieu of Bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

Champion the development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of comprehensive, industry‑leading workplace safety, occupational health, and organizational effectiveness programs.
Develop, direct and sustain programs and systems to track, evaluate and effectively address injury, illness, and occupational health trends.
Conduct trend analyses, audits, accident investigations, and facility/site inspections.
Ensure facility inspections, surveys, and design reviews incorporate appropriate industrial safety, occupational health, and human performance requirements.
Serve as the primary interface with Energy Northwest’s board, senior leadership, INPO, WANO, industry peers, and regulatory agencies in assigned areas of responsibility.
Drive continuous improvement through training program enhancements, performance assessments, improvement planning, culture evaluations, and integration of OE tools and methodologies.
Guide OE committees and cross‑functional working groups, while overseeing preparation of materials and facilitation of safety, health, and OE meetings.
Ensure strong integration between corporate support organizations and site operations through Corporate Evaluation Readiness, Plant Evaluation Readiness, Organizational Readiness reviews, and other INPO‑aligned evaluation processes.
Oversee the development, delivery, and assessment of safety‑related, occupational health, and human performance training.
Administer and oversee the agency’s CPR/AED, First Aid and ergonomic assessment programs.
Provide oversight and delivery of recurring safety and industrial training, such as Fall Protection, CPR/AED, First Aid, and other required programs.
Maintain deep knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local regulations; INPO and NRC guidance; WISHA and OSHA standards; and other relevant industry benchmarks.
Maintain full oversight of the Occupational Health Program, including clinic operations, regulatory compliance, employee medical qualifications and wellness surveillance, and occupational health risk reduction strategies.
Provide leadership, management and guidance to assigned staff, including appropriate resource allocation, assignment, scheduling, training and problem resolution.
Participate on the Emergency Response (ERO) team when designated.
Support the biennial refueling outage.

Benefits

Incentive Compensation (annual incentive plan)
Substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match component, and a 457(b) savings plan.
Multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage.
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Tuition reimbursement
Student loan repayment
Childcare subsidies
Health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA)
Health savings account (HSA)
Supplemental life insurances
Credit monitoring/identity theft insurance
Personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year
Nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year