Job Summary:The Manager, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) position will be a leader and core member of the Northpoint Leadership Team, responsible for overseeing EHS PathGroup's Northpoint (Coppell, TX) facility, and other Texas-based ancillary facilities. This leader will be expected to manage the local day-to-day execution of a comprehensive enterprise-wide environmental health and safety program that ensures all departments and functions are in compliance with PathGroup's regulatory policies, procedures, and work requirements to prevent harm to employees, contractors, or visitors, or damage to structures.
Job Responsibilities:- Maintains and ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local rules, regulations, and code standards. Interprets regulations on relevant issues to provide practical guidance, support, and training aimed at maintaining and developing best practices.
- Collaborates with Operations in ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, company policies and practices with regards to safety standards, policies, and procedures.
- Directs the assessment for physical/chemical/laboratory safety and environmental protection functions. This includes, but it is not limited to conducting safety reviews with appropriate management and staff, overseeing Safety Committees, implementing and executing programs for the prevention and control of EHS risks, industrial hygiene, indoor air quality, laboratory compliance, hazardous waste and EPA/OSHA compliance, records, and permits, and prevention of injuries.
- Manages the receipt, storage, distribution, inventory management, and disposal of chemicals, as well as biological and hazardous chemical waste material/management.
- Establishes and monitors key performance metrics, measuring performance progress and evaluating EHS program effectiveness.
- Advises leaders on performance improvements; leads improvement initiatives; directs departments on specific regulatory safety and environmental issues by education and training programs on the requirements from federal, state, and local rules and protocols.
- Serves as PathGroup's primary liaison with local government agencies regarding all environmental, occupational, and life safety issues. Serves as a local advisor to Corporate EHS leadership.
- Analyzes and develops environmental health and safety information reporting, consolidating and reporting key EHS statistics monthly, quarterly or annually, as required by outside agencies.
- Manages all EHS staff and supervises their development and progression; provides support as required to operating divisions, departments, and staff in order to be in compliance with federal, state, and local EHS requirements.
- Oversees the safety training program for management and staff personnel.
- Recommends, develops and maintains safety processes and procedures to ensure compliance with federal, state, and OSHA requirements as well as safety programs and campaigns to attain and sustain a hazard free workplace.
- Participates/leads accident and incident investigations, develop incident investigation reports, and ensure accurate OSHA Logs.
- Conducts safety audits, review compliance with safety of policies and procedures and recommend corrective actions.
- Perform all job responsibilities in alignment with the industry's best security practices and regulatory guidelines to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information and other sensitive company data.
- Must be familiar with and abide by the Corporate Compliance Program and all Corporate policies, including the Privacy and Security policies.
Education and Experience Qualifications:- EHS job experience in a clinical laboratory diagnostic or MedTech industry required.
- Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Physical Science or a related field required.
- Minimum of seven (3) years of related EHS job experience required.
- Ten (10) years of progressive experience in environmental health and safety preferred.
- ASP/CSP, CHMM certification preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:Knowledge:- Experience with laboratory safety practice, monitoring equipment usage, remediation protocols.
- Experience with indoor Air Quality principals and overseeing Hazardous Chemical Waste Management protocols, particularly for clinical or anatomic laboratories.
- Laboratory safety practices, EPA protocols related to laboratory biohazardous waste management, reporting, and compliance.
- Overseeing and tracking for EPA requests, risk management principals, and incident investigation and OSHA reporting.
- Knowledge of the related trends, issues, and accepted practices in a diagnostic laboratory environment.
- Conducting reports and implementing sustainability initiatives.
- Safety procedure and policies development.
- Developing and providing safety trainings.
- Experience conducting safety audits in a laboratory setting.
Skills:- Good technical skills, including proficiency in MS Office;
- Strong organizational, analytical and problem solving skills;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
- Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.
Abilities:- Ability to communicate EHS budget needs to upper management;
- Ability to develop and manage budgets for programs; ability to manage a team;
- Ability to document/track trends; ability to create reports, establish root causes, etc.;
- Ability to lead committees and provide background information on EHS issues;
- Ability to respond to hazardous material incidents and other emergencies.