Environmental Health and Safety Specialist V

Leads 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. Leads implementation, evaluation, monitoring, and enhancement of Environmental Health and Safety programs to ensure success. Ensures employee safety and protection by leading and contributing to the development of Environmental Health and Safety programs and training efforts. Ensures high-quality service by resolving complex issues and acting as a resource on EH&S and WPS matters. Leads efforts to recognize and assess hazards and risks by developing and implementing best practices for identifying, analyzing, documenting, and communicating complex and nuanced workplace environmental health and safety risk trends. Leads efforts to prepare high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety. Ensures risk control by leading workplace safety and compliance efforts and evaluation of the effectiveness of measures to improve workplace safety outcomes.

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback.
• Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results.
• Independently adheres to and promotes compliance standards by: interpreting, developing, implementing, and overseeing strategies and programs to enable compliance with, and providing guidance on applicable federal, state, and local Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) regulatory requirements, and organizational EH&S and Workplace Safety (WPS) policies and standards; serving as a liaison for 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), identifying and providing guidance on downstream impacts for compliance and leading proactive solutions; upholding and providing expert guidance on Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures and Principles of Responsibilities; implementing and helping develop best practices for the completion and submission of complex regulatory reports within appropriate time frames; using innovation and ingenuity to propose significant process improvements to allow for efficient and effective compliance; and keeping abreast of diverse, complex, and rapidly changing laws, regulations, codes, policies, and standards and their impact on Environmental Health and Safety.
• Supports training and continuous learning about Environmental Health and Safety by: maintaining advanced, in-depth knowledge through training and development and driving the application of learning into work strategies; developing and presenting safety education and training programs for management and staff (e.g., proper use of tools, procedures, and safety measures; environmental hazards and risks); and leading development and implementation of competency assessments to measure and ensure training effectiveness.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies.
• Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members.
• Guides safety practices by: ensuring employee safety and protection by leading the education of employees, leaders, and other key stakeholders on employee safety; leading reporting, investigation, and analysis of employee safety incidents as needed; leading safety-related activities for all employees; recommending and leading the implementation and evaluation of changes to the employee safety program; and evaluating and redesigning systems to improve employee safety in alignment with industry standards.
• Plans for long-term implementation of Health and Safety programs by: initiating, developing, revising, and implementing a comprehensive environmental health and safety program; conducting complex assessments and analyses to evaluate health and safety programs and guiding others on the process; and leading opportunities to develop and enhance existing programs based on analyses, observations, industry standards, and organizational goals and develop new programs where gaps are identified.
• Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals.
• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by: leading the effort to develop and implement best practices for complex and nuanced assessments and data analysis to identify workplace environmental health and safety risk trends; leading the effort to prepare high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety; and documenting to enable tracking/trending of safety information using appropriate software and tools, communicating with stakeholders across organizational lines.
• Ensures risk control by: applying expertise to design, recommend, and implement changes that promote workplace safety and compliance (e.g., accident prevention, hazardous materials management, fire/life safety); and gathering input from a variety of internal and external stakeholders, applying expert judgment to evaluate the effectiveness of changes on workplace safety outcomes.
• Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit.
• Ensures high-quality service by: independently responding to complaints and resolving complex issues that require expertise and judgment, addressing escalated issues as needed; and acting as a consultant/resource for local administration, managers, physicians, and staff on complex Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) and Workplace Safety (WPS) matters (e.g., environmental management, industrial hygiene, safety).
• Models team collaboration within and across teams.