Goodwill Industries Of Greater New York Hiring For Director of Occupational Safety & Health at New York, NY Full Time

Position Title:

Director of Occupational Safety & Health

Department:

Finance

Reports To (Title):

CFO

Position Type:

FLSA – Exempt

Supervising Staff:

The Director of Occupational Safety & Health (DOSH) is a leader in a diverse safety program at Goodwill NYNJ. This role focuses on program development, influencing a safety culture, and conducting hazard assessments. This role requires expertise in pertinent regulations. The DOSH brings a strong commitment to safety rules and processes, writing policies and program documents, and creating quantitative reports. The DOSH is expected to manage a team of safety professionals and coordinate other departments to facilitate their effective engagement in health and safety efforts. The DOSH will also coordinate with the finance team and our insurance professionals to capitalize on health and safety resources that they provide and demonstrate Goodwill’s effectiveness at risk mitigation. The successful candidate will have past experience in managing a safety program. Some travel is required to visit Goodwill sites in New York and Northern New Jersey as needed to perform hazard assessments and investigations. This role leads a cross-functional team to deliver the safety program.

• Development plan for a comprehensive health and safety program that will be implemented across the organization based on best practices. This plan will specify the necessary staffing, use of outside consultants and internal partnerships necessary to operate an effective health and safety program
• Lead occupational safety and health programs across Goodwill NYNJ by working with a cross functional team from retail stores, warehouse operations, loss prevention, program sites and other facilities functions

• Ensure that Goodwill’s safety and occupational health programs, policies and procedures are current, OSHA and CARF compliant and that Goodwill is regularly educated on same
• Coordinate and conduct regular site assessments, audits, inspections (both initial and follow-up) and corrective action activities for all involved in these activities; work with Facilities Operations & Loss Prevention on these activities

• Oversee and track all required safety certifications for employees and work with other facilities functions to ensure vendor safety certifications and GW safety policies are met
• Perform certification training and oversee other GW staff and Safety Training vendors to offer EHS training for GW staff required to maintain relevant certifications
• Foster relationships to influence and lead retail, warehouse management and program leadership to drive OHS policies for compliance and mitigation of risk for employees, customers, program clients and vendors
• Provide training to store, warehouse and program leadership so that managers can drive health and safety practice as part of their everyday engagement with staff, customers and vendors.
• Work with facilities to ensure timely safety equipment and systems vendor inspections and work orders
• Maintain a working partnership with Goodwill’s insurance professionals to benefit from the health and safety resources they provide and demonstrate effective pursuit of risk mitigation strategies.
• Promote safety and health awareness, manage near-miss incidents, recordable injuries, lost time injuries or illnesses, and work with management and human resources to ensure an effective return to work program
• Manage with human resources workers’ compensation case handling, including return-to-work procedures/requirements
• Travel as needed to the over 40 sites across Northern New Jersey and Greater New York up to the Albany area to promote and maintain safety awareness and to perform the duties of this role as well as to engage others with responsibilities for EHS activities
• Collect, analyze and report on OHS metrics and trends and produce the summarized reports for the SVP of REF and the GW Safety Council
• Lead or oversee OHS initiatives and special projects using formalized project management methodologies to ensure scope, schedule and budget expectations are achieved

Adhere to all Goodwill and personnel policies and procedures; follow good safety and security practices including reporting safety hazards and injuries to the Manager, HR, and/or Job Coach if applicable.

Additional duties as assigned.

• This role will have supervisory responsibilities for health and safety team members and/or health and safety consultants.
• This role is tasked to lead cross-functional processes across Loss Prevention, Safety, Security, and Facilities Projects.

The following benchmarks must be meet as follows:

• Track and report on incidents; periodic analysis of trends
• Regularly lead organizational initiatives to promote safety culture and to meet safety objectives
• Provide strong leadership to NY and NJ respective regulatory compliance for our government sponsored programs
• Provide strong leadership in the interaction with OSHA and our insurance providers for site inspections
• Lead Facilities and Security in the write up of Safety Corrective Actions (SCA); Track results
• Track and report on Safety Training & Drills requirements

Benchmarks are subject to change to meet business needs with management approval.

The following qualifications are required:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Overall 10 to 15 years of work experience in facilities, engineering or other technical roles
• Specially, 7 years of experience directly in EHS roles in medium to large organizations
• Prior leadership experience in corporate safety in retail, warehouse and administrative environments, preferred
• Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining corporate health & safety programs
• Experienced in training methodologies, incident reporting, compliance management & engagement techniques
• Demonstrated results managing in a matrix organization
• Expertise in Workers Compensation Systems, OSHA and CARF regulations, in particular in New York and New Jersey

• OSHA and First Aid Certifications

High School Diploma or equivalent required.

• Capability to identify Worker’s Compensation, OSHA and CARF compliance issues and severity
• Organizational and interpersonal skills to act on safety compliance programs, to hold management, staff and vendors responsible for safety, and to energize Goodwill to put Safety First
• Technical skills to perform site inspections and to work with EHS-related vendors
• Managerial skills to lead cross-functional teams, virtual teams, and matrix reporting relationships
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong computer-related skills in performing data management, trend analysis, and developing presentations
• Ability to work appropriately at all levels from GW Safety Council to entry-level staff
• Demonstrate creativity and enthusiasm to energize the organization to embrace EHS programs and Safety First culture
• Good analytical and presentation skills, including the ability to utilize appropriate computer programs to organize and analyze cost, trends and action items