OHS Compliance & Enforcement Leader

New Mexico Department of Justice; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five days of leave from start

Job summary

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMENV) is seeking a highly engaged Compliance and Enforcement Section Chief to oversee health and safety inspections and discrimination investigations within the Occupational Health and Safety Bureau. The role leads enforcement strategies, collaborates with regulators, and directs performance planning to advance the bureau's mission.

The ideal candidate will apply OSHA regulations, plan strategically, and manage technical staff in a regulatory environment,

Qualifications

• Applying OSHA regulations, strategic planning, developing and implementing policies and managing technical staff in a regulatory environment.
• Meeting regulatory deadlines with attention to detail.
• Performing compliance inspections in the field or an industrial setting.

Responsibilities

• Develops and initiates actions to achieve goals and objectives for each Section program including occupational health enforcement, safety enforcement, and discrimination investigations.
• Integrates enforcement and investigation strategies into NMED/OHSB strategic and annual performance plans and will direct process improvement.
• Provides high-level review of novel and complex enforcement actions, conducts informal administrative reviews, directs and reviews discrimination investigations to recommend determinations to the Bureau Chief.
• Oversees Compliance and Enforcement Section functions, track performance reports, ensure staff participation in state internal evaluations, correspond with federal OSHA on state-mandated measures, direct enforcement targeting systems, receive and distribute occupational fatality information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintains accountability for spending of public funds in accordance with federal and state statute, regulations, grants, and directives.

Skills

OSHA regulations

Strategic planning

Policy development

Policy implementation

Staff management

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

9 years related work experience (substitution clause)

Job description

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMENV) is seeking a highly engaged Compliance and Enforcement Section Chief to oversee health and safety inspections and discrimination investigations within the Occupational Health and Safety Bureau. The role leads enforcement strategies, collaborates with regulators, and directs performance planning to advance the bureau's mission.

The ideal candidate will apply OSHA regulations, plan strategically, and manage technical staff in a regulatory environment,