The Boston University Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) department is seeking a Campus Health and Safety Senior Specialist or Program Manager to join our dynamic team. This position assists the EHS Director of Campus Operations in providing comprehensive leadership, programmatic management, and facilitation for assigned safety programs and initiatives as well as serving as an EHS subject matter expert. The position is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing EHS's campus health and safety programs to provide a healthy and safe environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. The position coordinates improvement activities across multiple academic and operational departments, serving as a highly visible and energetic champion of employee safety throughout the organization. This role requires daily interaction with staff and senior leadership at the Charles River and Fenway campuses. Critical thinking and decision-making skills are essential.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring a safe and healthy environment across Boston University with extensive knowledge of health and safety standards, fire codes, and building code. This position is primarily based on the Charles River Campus while remaining flexible in assignments across all areas and departments served by EHS.
The Opportunity
- Join a face-paced work environment providing services across all university operations.
- Be part of a diverse EHS team with over five hundred years of combined experience across all EHS disciplines.
- Collaboratively work with other departments to develop and implement safety plans.
- Gain workplace experience in both academia and healthcare with an employer that supports career growth.
- Have the benefits of working within a large research university and academic medical center, which includes generous medical, dental, retirement, and tuition remission benefits. See link to tuition remission information. https://www.bu.edu/hr/learningbu/tuition-remission/
Job Responsibilities
- Implement and manage health and safety programs including; required OSHA programs and fire safety programs.
- Maintain necessary permits for regulatory compliance including inspections by the Boston Fire Department and the Mass. Department of Public Safety.
- Conduct comprehensive inspections and risk assessments to identify potential environmental health and safety hazards.
- Develop and implement strategies to mitigate identified risks, ensuring a safe environment for students, faculty, staff, patients, and visitors.
- Design and deliver comprehensive health and safety training for faculty, staff and students.
- Stay current with health & safety best practices, standards, and regulations. Provide briefings and training to EHS staff as necessary.
- Collect data from inspections, external audits, corrective actions, fire drill performance, and incident response to generate reports for EHS leadership. Recommend improvements to enhance safety performance to ensure a culture of safety of continuous improvement.
- Manage the EHS on-call program and provide emergency response guidance to EHS staff in response to incidents. Assist the university emergency management program in planning for emergency response exercises to prepare staff in incident response.
- Manage the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) program.
- Regularly review incident and employee accident reports to mitigate hazards. Review near miss and injury data to identify trends. Recommend corrective actions and implement improvement strategies.
Required Skills
- B.A./B.S. in a related field, master’s degree preferred.
- 5 years of environmental health and safety or related experience for the Senior Specialist level; 8+ years for the Program Manager Level
- Experience in conducting health and safety inspections.
- Extensive knowledge of health and safety standards and building code.
- Experience with regulatory inspections.
- OSHA HAZWOPER 40-hour Certification.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Basic computer skills (business systems, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Proficient communicator and safety trainer.
- Successful completion of a pre-placement physical.
Preferred Experience
- Works towards an advanced degree in related field.
- Health and safety experience in the academic, research, or healthcare industry.
- A health and safety certification (ASP, CSP, CHSP, CIH, CHMM).
- Experience in construction safety.
- Experience in leading emergency management exercises or fire drills.
- Experience in managing health and safety permits and licenses or other required documentation.
- Experience in compliance inspections with external regulators.
- Experience in incident and accident investigations.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
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