Health & Safety Compliance Lead

Louisville Metro Government; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sick Leave

Vacation

Holiday Pay

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Louisville Metro Government is seeking an experienced safety and health professional to develop, coordinate, and audit enterprise occupational safety and health policies and programs. The role requires independent work with limited supervision and regular reporting on major activities to leadership.

You will lead investigations, inspections, and training, collaborate with agencies, and drive continuous improvement of safety and health systems to reduce accidents and regulatory exposure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline as listed.
• Three (3) years of occupational safety and health reporting, inspections or training OR risk management experience.
• Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be substituted.

Responsibilities

• Leads injury and accident investigations, safety inspections and training programs.
• Represents the enterprise in all KYOSH and Federal OSHA investigations, injury and illness reporting and recordkeeping.
• Works with enterprise agencies to eliminate or control hazardous conditions that may lead to human injury and/or property damage.
• Promotes a safe and healthy working environment through continuous improvement of safety, health and environmental systems that result in the reduction of accidents and illness and regulatory compliance.
• Assists management in budget preparation and monitors and controls expenditures.
• Assists departments in enterprise Health and Safety Management Program implementation and conducts program reviews to measure compliance and improvement.
• Completes enterprise work site inspections to identify, analyze and control existing or potential hazards and prepares action plans with agency specific goals to reduce the frequency, severity and cost of accidents and occupational illness.
• Responds to enterprise wide employee concerns for environmental, health or safety issues.
• Assists HR Safety management by representing the enterprise to government agencies and the public to provide information and answers questions concerning safety and health programs and services provided to Metro employees.
• Conducts training throughout the enterprise on OSHA regulatory training.
• Maintains, per retention schedule, all health and safety and industrial hygiene files for the enterprise.
• Assists HR safety management by monitoring agency completion and maintaining of job hazard analysis and job training matrix.
• Creates, reviews and implements industrial hygiene management plans such as lead, asbestos, respirator, noise and fungi.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Education, Environmental Health, Fire Science, Health and Safety, Industrial Engineering, Public Administration or related discipline

Job description

Louisville Metro Government is seeking an experienced safety and health professional to develop, coordinate, and audit enterprise occupational safety and health policies and programs. The role requires independent work with limited supervision and regular reporting on major activities to leadership.

You will lead investigations, inspections, and training, collaborate with agencies, and drive continuous improvement of safety and health systems to reduce accidents and regulatory exposure.