SMUD Careers – Occupational Health & Safety Manager

Job Description:

Through collaboration with SMUD’s organizational leaders, the Manager, Occupational Health and Safety is responsible to provide vision, leadership and expertise for the success and sustainability of the SMUD’s health and safety programs and services that proactively protect employees and the public. This position provides overall leadership and direction to plan, integrate and evaluate SMUD’s occupational health, safety, workers’ compensation, disability management, injury and accident prevention and wellness programs. This position provides overall leadership and direction to plan, integrate and evaluate SMUD’s occupational health & safety program and development, injury and accident prevention program, strategy and metrics.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops enterprise-wide strategy, work plans and goals for SMUD to meet the organizations’ health and safety objectives through a collaborative approach with senior management and supervisors and all levels of employees to support and deliver on SMUD’s core values and strategic directives related to employee health and safety.
• Lead and oversee multi-disciplinary teams in incident reviews and problems solving to support SMUD’s occupational health and safety programs including safe operations practices and loss control/prevention programs.
• Develops and implements strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy and productive workforce, ensuring that the most effective injury prevention tools and practices are implemented and utilized.
• Leads investigations on safety incidents and near-misses, accidents and injuries and ensures prompt corrective action and response to operational issues are in place and sustained.
• Provides leadership and direction to support operations of the Occupational Health and Safety function including budget administration, resource allocation and operational support of occupational health and safety programs and services.
• Responsible for maintaining oversight of OSHA compliance including reporting and record keeping; developing and implementing work plans through partnerships with business segments and teams to sustain compliance.
• Develops and maintains occupational health & safety measures and metrics to identify most help needed operations and potential occupational safety hazards and implements and integrates measurable strategies based on data, research and trends.
• Ensures that employee health and safety risks are identified, characterized and understood by all stakeholders. Develops and implements effective strategies for managing the risks.
• Researches industry trends and best practices in occupational health and safety applicable to SMUD; benchmark and implement best practices.
• Measures and monitors the performance and results of core workforce health and safety processes and drives process improvement.
• Oversight of development and delivery of training of health and safety compliance programs and preventative programs, including training programs that expand awareness and ownership for a safe work environment in electrical utility.
• Serves as SMUD’s professional expert in litigation, arbitration, etc. for Health and Safety standards and practices. Serves on committees and task forces with other utilities, government agencies, industrial representatives and the public as SMUD’s program representative.

Job Requirements:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience from an accredited college or university majoring in safety, occupational health, environmental science, industrial hygiene, risk management engineering, physical/biological sciences, psychology, behavioral sciences, or related field. If no degree then 11 years of experience is required.
• 7 to 10 years of progressively responsible relevant experience in the strategic development and implementation of a comprehensive workforce health and safety program and culture; with at least 5 years in managerial role leading a team of health and safety professionals.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP); and /or Certified Industrial Hygienist
• BS/BA Degree from an accredited college or university majoring in Safety, Occupational Health, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Risk Management Engineering, Physical/Biological Sciences, Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, or related field.

Job Details:

Company: Sacramento Municipal Utility District

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Sacramento, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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