UEM Occupational Safety Manager

Job Posting Title:

UEM Occupational Safety Manager

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Hiring Department:

Environmental Health and Safety

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

AUSTIN, TX

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Job Details:

General Notes

Environmental Health and Safety Services provides healthy and safe operations on campus, to protect students, faculty, staff and visitors, and to ensure protection of the environment.

Your skills will make a difference.

You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will contribute to operational excellence and enhance the student experience. If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working in our department and for UT Austin. UT Austin provides an outstanding benefits package including but not limited to:

• Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
• Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
• Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
• Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with employer matching funds
• Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
• Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
• Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities.
• Tuition assistance
• Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets
• Free access to UT Austin’s libraries and museums with staff ID card
• Free rides on all UT shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card
• For more details, please see: https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective/benefits and https://hr.utexas.edu/current/services/my-total-rewards.

For more information on Environmental Health and Safety, Visit the Environmental Health and Safety Website

Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employee without sponsorship.

Security sensitive; Criminal background check conducted on selected applicant. Hiring decision is contingent on applicant clearing check. This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code §51.215. Applications will be reviewed online by the hiring department.

Purpose 

Oversees policy and procedure implementation to ensure a safe, compliant work environment at Utilities and Energy Management (UEM). Partners with managers to monitor safety compliance, identify issues, and provide guidance on maintaining regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Creates, manages, maintains, and improves occupational safety programs for Utilities and Energy Management. Coordinates with EHS on UEM needs to include incident response. Represents UEM in all campus-wide safety program efforts and updates UEM leadership with changes to existing programs or new initiatives from EHS.
• Conducts periodic safety and health walk-through inspections and assesses hazardous
  conditions for UEM spaces, reviews departmental incident reports, and performs incident investigations for causal factors. Performs periodic audits of the various programs, including but not limited to lockout/tagout, confined space entry, walking/working surfaces, and fall protection. Assist with cause analysis for operational events as assigned.
• Collect and manage a variety of incident related data, run metrics on trends, and distribute relevant information to UEM leadership. Develop tools/programs to leverage historical data to change trajectory of UEM safety and influence safety culture.
• Maintain the workplace safety team and serve as Technical Management advisor to sa