Environmental Health and Safety Specialist IV; PMG

Job Summary:

Develops, implements, and contributes to strategies and programs to model 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. Ensures the success of Environmental Health and Safety programs through implementation, evaluation, monitoring, and enhancement. Ensures employee safety and protection by implementing and contributing to the development of Environmental Health and Safety programs and training efforts.

Ensures high-quality service by resolving moderately complex issues and acting as a resource on EH&S and WPS matters. Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by conducting and implementing best practices for identifying, analyzing, documenting, and communicating moderately complex and nuanced workplace environmental health and safety risk trends. Ensures risk control by promoting workplace safety and compliance and evaluating the effectiveness of measures to improve workplace safety outcomes.

• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations.
  
  Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines;
  
  identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Independently adheres to and promotes compliance standards by: planning for developing, implementing, and contributing to strategies and programs to enable compliance with several interrelated 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 downstream impacts for compliance and suggesting proactive solutions;
  
  upholding and modeling compliance with Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures and Principles of Responsibilities; independently planning, scheduling, and contributing to best practices for the completion and submission of moderately complex regulatory reports within appropriate time frames; proposing incremental process improvements to allow for efficient and effective compliance; and maintaining knowledge of changes to 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 knowledge…