Manager - Fire and Life Safety

University of Mississippi Medical Center; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Mississippi Medical Center seeks a Manager – Fire and Life Safety to lead all safety programs and staff. You will ensure compliance with Joint Commission, state, and federal standards in a hospital setting on the Main Campus Jackson.

The role requires a degree and 4 years of safety-related experience, plus certification as a Healthcare Safety Professional within 3 years of hire. Travel may be required and collaboration with multiple hospital committees is essential.

Qualifications

• Required: Degree (Associate’s or Bachelor’s) and four (4) years of work experience in safety, health regulations, or industrial hygiene.
• Certification: Certified Healthcare Safety Professional within 3 years post-hire.
• Preferred: Healthcare Environmental Manager certification; healthcare setting experience.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and enforces fire and life safety policies and procedures.
• Acts as EHS subject matter expert on hospital committees and Joint Commission readiness.
• Serves as designee for the State Fire Marshal’s Office for UMMC operations.
• Develops and oversees staff safety training programs.
• Coordinates hazardous waste management with environmental services.
• Leads investigation of accidents and near-misses and recommends corrective action.
• Conducts building inspections to identify hazards and training needs.
• Ensures contractor compliance and manages vendor relations.
• Drives disaster response readiness and hospital emergency planning.

Skills

Safety leadership

Regulatory compliance

Incident investigation

Verbal and written communication

Team supervision

Education

Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree

4 years safety/health experience

Job description

Job Requisition ID: R00054507

Job Category: Professional and Technical

Organization: Fac Services – Emergency Management & Life Safety

Location: Main Campus Jackson

Job Title: Manager – Fire and Life Safety

Job Summary

Responsible for supervising all UMMC safety programs and staff ensuring activities are safely performed and in a safe environment in accordance with UMMC procedures, regulatory requirements, joint commission, Mississippi department of health, and other state and federal accrediting organization standards and regulations. Reviews, formulates, and recommends policy and organizational changes as appropriate.

Education and Experience

Required: Degree (Associate’s or Bachelor’s) and four (4) years of work experience in safety, health regulations, or industrial hygiene.

Certifications, Licenses, or Registration

Required: Certified Healthcare Safety Professional from the International Board for Certification Services and Management required post-hire within three (3) years.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare Environmental Manager certification
• Experience in a healthcare setting
• Knowledge

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, statutes, regulations, rules, policies, and procedures.
• Skill in accident/incident investigation and reporting protocols.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies.
• Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to train, motivate, and supervise employees.

Responsibilities

• Establishes, maintains, and ensures adherence to policies and procedures related to fire and life safety.
• Acts as a subject matter expert for EHS on various hospital committees and assures compliance and preparedness for Joint Commission Accreditation and other inspections as required.
• Serves as the designee for the State Fire Marshall’s Office as it relates to UMMC operations.
• Develops and oversees the implementation of effective staff safety training.
• Coordinates the UMMC hazardous waste management program, including proper methods of storing and handling of hazardous materials with departments in conjunction with campus environmental services.
• Oversees the investigation of accidents, spills, losses, thefts, unauthorized receipts, uses, transfers, disposal, mis‑administrations, and other deviations from approved safety practice and recommends appropriate action in order to prevent future occurrences.
• Conducts building inspections to identify hazardous conditions and practices in order to help identify training and education that will assist in prevention of worker injuries, and report same to hospital administration as needed.
• Reviews and interprets code revisions, moratoriums, or equivalencies for applicability to UMMC and hospital-specific policies and procedures, and compliance.
• Ensures contractor code compliance by managing the interaction between departmental personnel and contractors, facility planning and physical plant personnel.
• Manages vendor relations and contracts to ensure fulfillment of duties.
• Responds to and mitigates on and off-campus disasters.
• May require extended travel and/or overnight stays.
• Collaborates with disaster management in the development of the hospital Emergency Operations Plan.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, constant handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, constant exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, frequent work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crawling, occasional crouching/stooping, constant driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, constant reaching, constant sitting, frequent standing, frequent twisting, and frequent walking (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more).

Other Details

• Time Type: Full time
• FLSA Designation/Job Exempt: Yes
• Pay Class: Salary
• FTE %: 100
• Work Shift: Day
• Benefits Eligibility: Grant Funded: No
• Job Posting Date: 10/9/2026
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