Specialist, Environmental, Health, & Safety

Universal Orlando•Orlando, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Specialist, Environmental, Health, & Safety is responsible for daily advisement, technical support, and conformance for team member safety and health, and environmental stewardship. This involves fostering the implementation of the EHS Management System, EHS Standards, and associated processes, and partnering with EHS Health & Safety, Environmental Affairs, and Assurance functions. Key responsibilities include managing documents and records, evaluating EHS processes and controls, communicating findings, responding to emergent incidents, and using EHS tools and practices to mitigate risk, reduce incidents, and drive conformance in all areas of EHS. The role provides EHS advisory support for an assigned division, area, shift, and/or project, including consultation and making decisions of a moderate nature. The work is complex, operating within both known and changing contexts and broad but established standards, and requires liaising with other EHS functional area experts related to environment, industrial hygiene, construction, fire, standards and assurance, training, and safety operations.

Requirements

2+ years in EHS
Basic understanding of recordkeeping, training, inspections, audits, hazard recognition and mitigation, incident response, Standards expectations, metrics and critical performance indicators, technical report preparation, sampling and monitoring, issuance and review of safe work permits.
Must be self-starter with a basic working knowledge of applicable EHS regulations.
Possess business acumen and strong communication skills to identify, analyze and act on information in a range of workplace conditions.
Ability to plan and evaluate approaches to sometimes unpredicted problems within a framework of existing operations and processes.
Ability to influence and work in a team by applying communication, engagement and skills to promote and support change.
Utilize mentoring skills to develop capability of management team members.
Strong computer skills with Microsoft office, presentation development, and delivery.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Safety Engineering/Management, Public Health, Environment and/or Biological or Educational Sciences or associated degree.

Responsibilities

Perform and document assigned inspections to identify conformance gaps caused by a breakdown in the EHS Management System. Evaluate for effectiveness of prescribed controls, training, standards and other management system elements. Seek immediate and root cause for corrective action and preventive mitigations for non-conformances. Evaluate conditions or behaviors for EHS risk as part of inspections.
Execute and document incident investigations, as assigned. Evaluate for effectiveness of prescribed controls, training, standards and other management system elements. Seek immediate and root cause for corrective action and preventive mitigations. Evaluate incident causes for EHS risk.
Verify and document complete findings closure and evaluate for effectiveness of initiated corrective actions to mitigate immediate and root cause.
Build relationships as a “trusted advisor” to influence management teams’ understanding of regulations, “partner facing” EHS process, and Standards through timely investigations, inspections and management meetings. Provide guidance on EHS performance by understanding the causes of nonconformity, prescribed control effectiveness, and methods to improve EHS standards and processes.
Actively respond to and participate in the EHS on-call, audit and other EHS process as assigned, continually identify hazards, make observations and stop work when there is imminent danger.
Conform to internal EHS processes, procedures, and the EHS Code of Professionalism. Take action to collaborate with EHS peers, share resources, foster communication, and remain aligned to a single EHS vision and mission with one set of established goals and objectives.
Consistently and accurately, document incidents, actions, and nonconformities using the prescribed EHS Applications and processes.
Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
Perform other duties as assigned.