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Occupational Health and Safety

The Occupational Health and Safety Manager oversees and coordinates Occupational Health and Safety programs including laboratory safety, industrial hygiene, radiation protection, waste management, environmental protection, and other specific safety programs. Duties are performed at various levels within the defined title.

• Lead department and staff; hire, develop, and conduct performance management
• Develop and maintain a strategic safety plan focusing on the recognition, evaluation and control of all hazards, and the protection of employees, and the University Community; determine if results are on target with University objectives and adjust as necessary
• Ensure regulatory compliance for safety programs through auditing and surveying work processes
• Develop, implement, and manage injury and illness prevention programs by performing root cause and failure analysis for incidents
• Participate in creating and revising University policies and programs
• Advise Senior Management on safety program issues and the effectiveness of injury prevention strategies
• Train management and technical service supervisors on safety initiatives/programs; keep employees abreast of the overall mission, vision, and goals for safety
• Manage departmental budget
• Advise on safety projects required for improvements
• Champion the implementation of Prevention Through Design process

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 14
• Minimum – $97,100.00
• MidPoint – $121,400.00
• Maximum – $145,700.00