Environmental Health and Safety Specialist III (KFH/HP)

Kaiser Permanente; Harbor Pines (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Harbor Pines, CA, seeks an Environmental Health and Safety professional to independently develop and oversee programs ensuring regulatory compliance and strong workplace safety standards.

You will implement training, identify hazards, analyze risk trends, and collaborate across teams to improve safety outcomes and regulatory adherence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health and Safety or related field is required.
• Minimum three years in EHS, risk management, or related field (or six years with broader scope).
• Certification such as ASP/CIH/CHSP is preferred; certification within 24 months is expected.

Responsibilities

• Develops and oversees strategies to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local EH&S requirements.
• Implement and evaluate training programs to promote employee safety and compliance.
• Identify hazards, analyze risks, and communicate safety trends and improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to address safety and regulatory challenges.

Skills

Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

Attention to Detail

Decision Making

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Cross-Group Collaboration

Learning Agility

Integrity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Natural Science, Engineering, Emergency Management, or related field

Job description

Job Summary:

Independently develops, implements, and oversees strategies and programs to enable 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. Contributes to the success of Environmental Health and Safety programs through implementation, evaluation, monitoring, and enhancement. Contributes to employee safety and protection through independent implementation of Environmental Health and Safety programs and training efforts. Ensures high-quality service by resolving standard issues and acting as a resource on EH&S and WPS matters. Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by developing and implementing best practices for identifying, analyzing, documenting, and communicating standard and nonstandard workplace environmental health and safety risk trends. Prepares high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety. Ensures risk control by interpreting general guidelines to promote workplace safety and compliance and evaluate the effectiveness of measures to improve workplace safety outcomes.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
• Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information.
• Independently adheres to compliance standards by: independently developing, implementing, and overseeing strategies and programs to enable 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; 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; independently upholding Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures and Principles of Responsibilities; independently planning, scheduling, and contributing to best practices for the completion and submission of regulatory reports within appropriate time frames; and identifying opportunities for process improvements to allow for efficient and effective compliance.
• Supports training and continuous learning about Environmental Health and Safety by: actively seeking training and development opportunities and integrating learning and feedback into daily work tasks and strategies; independently presenting safety education and training programs for management and staff (e.g., proper use of tools, procedures, and safety measures; environmental hazards and risks); and conducting competency assessments to measure and ensure training effectiveness.
• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives.
• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members.
• Engages in safety practices by: ensuring employee safety and protection by independently educating employees, leaders, and other key stakeholders on employee safety; independently reporting, investigating, and analyzing employee safety incidents as needed; independently conducting safety-related activities for all employees; and independently implementing changes to the employee safety program.
• Plans and schedules work related to Health and Safety programs independently by: implementing environmental health and safety programs; conducting standard and nonstandard assessments and analyses to evaluate health and safety programs under minimal supervision; and making significant recommendations to enhance existing programs based on analyses and observations.
• Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
• Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations.
• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members.
• Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by: independently developing and implementing best practices for standard and nonstandard assessments and data analysis to identify workplace environmental health and safety risk trends; preparing high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety; and engaging in standard communication and documentation to enable tracking/trending of safety information, independently using appropriate software and tools.
• Contributes to risk control by: independently implementing changes that promote workplace safety and compliance (e.g., accident prevention, hazardous materials management, fire/life safety); and gathering input from internal stakeholders to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented changes on workplace safety outcomes.
• Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples.
• Contributes to high-quality service by: independently responding to complaints and resolving standard and nonstandard issues, escalating as needed; and acting as a consultant/resource for local administration, managers, physicians, and staff on standard Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) and Workplace Safety (WPS) matters (e.g., environmental management, industrial hygiene, safety).
• Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Adaptability
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Compliance
• Compliance Management
• Computer Literacy
• Emergency Preparedness
• Employee Training
• Employee and Physician Safety
• Employee/Labor Relations
• Ergonomics
• Member Service
• Risk Management
• Safety Trend Analysis
• Safety and Environmental Health Knowledge
• Safety and Environmental Health Management
• Work Process Design

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Natural Science, Engineering, Emergency Management, or related field AND Minimum three (3) years of experience in environmental health and safety, risk management, or directly related field OR Minimum six (6) years of experience in environmental health and safety, risk management, or a directly related field.

• Associate Safety Professional Certification within 24 months of hire OR Industrial Hygienist Certificate within 24 months of hire OR Safety Professional Certificate within 24 months of hire OR Health Safety Professional Certificate within 24 months of hire

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Healthcare Safety Professional (CHSP), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), or related certification.