Occupational Health Nurse

Hired by Matrix, Inc.; San Antonio (TX); Presencial; USD 55.000 - 83.000; Tempo parcial

Resumo da vaga

Hired by Matrix, Inc. seeks an Occupational Health Nurse to support employee health and safety in a manufacturing setting. This contract, onsite role is based in Texas and requires an unrestricted RN license with experience in occupational health and related fields.

You will lead medical surveillance, injury prevention, and regulatory compliance, coordinating with EHS, HR, Operations, and medical providers to protect workers and ensure a safe workplace.

Qualificações

• Unrestricted RN license required.
• Experience in occupational health or manufacturing.
• Knowledge of injury management and workplace hazards.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsabilidades

• Support health, injury prevention, and medical surveillance in a manufacturing environment.
• Coordinate exposure assessments and regulatory compliance.
• Provide initial assessments and first aid for workplace injuries.
• Manage return-to-work, work restrictions, and confidential medical records.
• Collaborate with EHS, HR, Engineering, and medical providers.

Conhecimentos

Communication skills

Documentation

Case management

Organizational skills

Confidential information handling

Formação

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Descrição da vaga

At-a-Glance:
Join an international fire, HVAC, and security equipment company as an Occupational Health Nurse to support employee health and safety.

Position Type:

• Contract
• Onsite

Required:

• Experience in construction.
• Current unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• Occupational health, manufacturing, emergency/clinical nursing, or related experience.
• Knowledge of occupational injury management, medical surveillance, and workplace health hazards.
• Strong communication, documentation, case-management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to maintain confidential employee medical information.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing or related field.
• Experience with industrial hygiene sampling and occupational exposure assessments.
• Manufacturing or industrial EHS experience.
• Certified Occupational Health Nurse (COHN/COHN-S) certification.
• Experience in HVAC.

Responsibilities:

• Support employee health, injury prevention, medical surveillance, industrial hygiene, and regulatory compliance within a manufacturing environment.
• Combine occupational health nursing with workplace exposure assessment to help identify, evaluate, and control occupational health risks.
• Protect employee health by integrating occupational health nursing, industrial hygiene, exposure assessment, medical surveillance, and injury-prevention programs into the site's overall EHS management system.
• Provide initial assessment and first aid for workplace injuries and illnesses and coordinate appropriate follow-up care.
• Manage occupational health cases, work restrictions, return-to-work coordination, and confidential medical documentation.
• Coordinate medical surveillance, occupational examinations, health screenings, and other required employee health programs.
• Conduct and coordinate industrial hygiene assessments for workplace exposures.
• Develop exposure-monitoring strategies and interpret industrial hygiene sampling and laboratory results.
• Recommend engineering, administrative, work-practice, and PPE controls to reduce employee exposure.
• Support respiratory protection, hearing conservation, ergonomics, bloodborne pathogens, and occupational health programs.
• Participate in incident investigations, root-cause analysis, risk assessments, Management of Change (MOC), and corrective-action development.
• Support emergency response planning and employee exposure evaluations following chemical or refrigerant releases.
• Support OSHA compliance, injury and illness recordkeeping, ISO 45001 activities, internal audits, regulatory inspections, and employee training.
• Partner with EHS, Operations, HR, Engineering, Maintenance, employees, medical providers, and industrial hygiene consultants to promote a safe and healthy workplace.