Hazardous Materials Manager - Environmental Health & Safety

Job Description
- Hazardous Materials Manager
- Environmental Health & Safety (30234) Hazardous Materials Manager
- Environmental Health & Safety 30234 Description

The department of Environmental Health and Safety at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for a Hazardous Materials Manager.

Candidate will oversee the planning, designing, developing, implementing, and administration of state-wide institutional policies related to hazardous materials, hazardous waste, universal waste.

We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:

• 18 sick days per year(for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information ? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

• Meets with staff to develop goals, provide direction, and oversee their independent performance and functions of their position.
• Ensure hazardous waste determinations are completed in a timely manner.
• Assign tasks through a work management system.
• Complete reports to be delivered to administration as required.
• Ensures projects are reviewed and completed in a timely fashion and ensures materials meet basic environmental health and safety standards as well as University policy.
• Responsible for the hiring, firing, disciplining, supervising and professional development of Hazardous Materials Specialists, Hazardous Materials Technologists and various Graduate Students/Student Workers and others as assigned. Provides guidance and supervision to staff regarding accurate investigation, audits, inspections, etc. Acts in the absence of the Associate Director/Director of Environmental Health and Safety as necessary.
• Provides continual performance feedback for all direct reports assigned and completes written annual performance appraisals.
• Authors memoranda and provides reports to WVU administration as necessary; stays current with environmental health and safety issues to ensure professional staff maintain a high level of proficiency and are aware of emerging regulatory issues; develops and conducts training programs as required to support the training mission of EH&S; educates and communicates with WVU personnel, regulatory and emergency response agencies as necessary to resolve immediate and potential long-term emergency situations.
• Identifies programs necessary to provide an overall safe and healthy environment, assigns programs to appropriate staff members(s), and supervises creation and implementation as necessary. Existing environmental health and safety programs must be continually overseen and reappraised for efficiency and effectiveness by incumbent.
• Activities and operations at WVU facilities statewide must be monitored and surveyed on a regular basis to identify frequently changing health and safety programmatic needs.
• Oversees development of contracts by staff to ensure contract is written to best apply to the needs of the University; and acts as liaison with Procurement Services. If contracts are not adhered to by vendor, incumbent develops correspondence as necessary to provide Procurement Services with detailed information.
• Maintains and establishes relationships with persons and organizations…