Senior Manager, Environmental Health and Safety (KFH/HP)

Ensures consistency in 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. Executes strategy to ensure the success of Environmental Health and Safety programs through implementation, evaluation, monitoring, and enhancement. Ensures employee safety and protection by driving and strategically managing implementation of Environmental Health and Safety programs and training efforts. Ensures high-quality service by managing resolution of complex issues across teams or regions and acting as a resource on EH&S and WPS matters. Oversees and provides expert guidance on identification, analysis, documentation, and communication of workplace environmental health and safety risk trends. Oversees and provides expert guidance on preparing high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety. Holds teams accountable for ensuring risk control by promoting workplace safety and compliance initiatives and evaluation of the effectiveness of measures to improve workplace safety outcomes.

• Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.
• Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.
• Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams.
• Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate.
• Ensures compliance by: identifying and recommending improvements for long-term 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; strategically developing best practices for, guiding interactions with, and acting as a senior administrative liaison to 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), serving as an advisor to the team on the application of outcomes; promoting a culture of compliance and ensuring compliance with Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures and Principles of Responsibilities; guiding team to leverage best practices for the completion and submission of regulatory reports within appropriate time frames; using strategic thinking to drive identification and implementation of highly impactful process improvements to allow for efficient and effective compliance; and overseeing teams knowledge and application of diverse, highly complex and rapidly changing laws, regulations, codes, policies, and standards and their impact on Environmental Health and Safety.
• Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.
• Supports training and continuous learning about Environmental Health and Safety by: driving team to maintain advanced knowledge through training and development and facilitating the integration of learning and feedback into work strategies across the organization; driving and strategically managing 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, facilitating knowledge transfer and alignment across the organization; and driving development and implementation of market-wide competency assessments to measure and ensure training effectiveness.
• Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies.
• Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement.
• Manages safety practices by: ensuring employee safety and protection by leading plans to guide the education of employees, leaders, and other key stakeholders on employee safety; driving teams reporting, investigating, and analyzing employee safety incidents and providing guidance as needed; holding teams accountable for safety-related activities for all employees; driving development, implementation, and evaluation of changes to the employee safety program with consideration of strategic, long-term organizational goals; and guiding evaluation and redesign of systems to improve employee safety in alignment with leading industry practices.
• Drives the application and implementation of Health and Safety programs by: driving initiation, development, revision, implementation, and promotion of a comprehensive environmental health and safety program; driving teams to conduct complex, comprehensive assessments and analyses to evaluate health and safety programs; and overseeing, guiding, and promoting opportunities to develop and implement new programs and enhance existing ones based on analyses, observations, cutting-edge industry practices, and strategic organizational goals.
• Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.
• Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines.
• Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
• Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by: overseeing and providing expert guidance on assessments and data analysis to identify workplace environmental health and safety risk trends; overseeing and providing expert guidance on preparing high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety; and driving documentation to enable tracking/trending of safety information using appropriate software and tools and guides, communicating throughout the organization.
• Manages risk control by: applying advanced knowledge and expertise to design, recommend, and manage the implementation of changes that promote workplace safety and compliance (e.g., accident prevention, hazardous materials management, fire/life safety); and guiding evaluation of change effectiveness.
• Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units.
• Drives high-quality service by: overseeing response and resolution to complaints and issues, using expert knowledge and judgment to assist in resolving highly complex escalated issues as needed; and acting as a managing consultant/resource for local administration, managers, physicians, and staff on highly complex Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) and Workplace Safety (WPS) matters (e.g., environmental management, industrial hygiene, safety).
• Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives.