Manager, Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) – Universal Epic Universe

Universal Orlando Resort believes in-person collaboration is key to our success. Many of our Team Members work in a hybrid capacity, contributing from the workplace a minimum of three days per week. Some remote opportunities are available within specific departments. There are also roles that require being on-site full time. You’ll learn more about this during the application process.

JOB SUMMARY: Responsible to contribute and maintain site Health & Safety processes in conformance with local regulation, Global EHS MODEL and individual Global EHS Standards. Applies EHS knowledge to initiate, promote, and implement EHS strategy, plans, programs, and processes for assigned area including critical controls. Drives identification, implementation, and monitoring of health and safety risks, designs and conducts training, and ensures retention of appropriate records. Influences work across teams, EHS peers, and areas to include projects and team activities.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Hazard ID and Risk Assessment:

• Conducts hazard identification in well-known tasks and dynamic conditions.
• Uses human factors and knowledge to identify causation, consequences, risk controls to include critical controls and potential failures in dynamic conditions.
• Contributes to the identification of risk factors, analysis, and prioritization of EHS risk associated with known and routine work processes.
• Advise on and support of implementation of controls, including critical controls for risk minimization/mitigation strategies.
• Liaise with operational and EHS team, write and maintain written documentation.

Operations:

• Support implementation of and monitor compliance with management system, policy, and procedures.
• Build relationships as a basis for influence with managers, understand the limitations of written procedures.
• Support and motivate management to demonstrate leadership and influence performance
• Facilitate, monitor, and provide feedback on the conformance with plans to reduce hazards and impacts and associated risks.
• Provide day to day proactive and collaborative technical advice and support to assigned business area regarding objectives.
• Participate in emergency response and on-call processes.

Performance:

• Mentor management to understand why work tasks as executed my differ procedures as written
• Implement activities to monitor performance, monitor the integrity and effectiveness of controls with emphasis on critical/high risk controls to identify actual and potential failures
• Coordinate and participate in routine inspection activities to monitor use of hazard controls and evaluate conformance.
• Monitor and report on compliance with standards, processes, risk mitigation, and action plans.
• Prepare and use equipment to undertake basic measurements and monitoring of work environment.
• Contribute to observations of TM for conformance.
• Perform serious incident investigations, analyze, record and prepare reports containing causes, control failures, contributions and recommended corrective actions.
• Support management reviews to assess, monitor, and identify areas for improvement and make recommendations related to the management system, culture, and action plans.

Support:

• Build relationships as a “trusted advisor” to influence management teams’ understanding of regulations, standards, action plans and expectation.
• Contribute to the preparation of OJT and formal training materials and SOP to develop TM skills and H&S awareness, conduct OJT training to mentor and coach skills, provide varied, accurate and up-to-date information related to technical matters, conformance, performance.
• Actively collaborate with EHS peers, share resources, foster communication, and remain aligned to a single EHS vision and mission with one set of established goals and objectives.
• Supports and collaborates with all EHS elements related to resources and communications for consistency and clarity of message with business partners related to construction, fire, environmental affairs, occupational health, standards, training, and assurance elements.
• Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established policy, procedures, training, and team member involvement activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree in Safety Engineering/Management, Public Health, Biological or Educational Sciences or associated degree is preferred.

EXPERIENCE: 5+ years in Environmental, Health and Safety.

Operational Management System:

• 5+ years direct day to day oversight of HS professional team, HS management system maintenance, risk assessment, supervision, strategic planning, scheduling, performance measurement, conformance validation, measures and metrics reporting, collaboration and communication across functional business lines.

Technical Hands-on operational experience:

• 3+ years’ experience to be considered competent in at least two HS elements within assigned role.
• At least basic knowledge of in at least two additional elements ; Topics considered are HS regulatory understanding and application, Standards development and implementation, inspections and audits, facilitation of regulatory visits/communications, incident response and management, incident investigation and reporting, corrective action plans and controls assignment, training and presentations, Hazard identification and analysis, recordkeeping.
• or equivalent combination of education and experience.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Certified Safety Professional, CIH or other equivalent certification preferred

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Must be self-starter with solid working knowledge of applicable Health & Safety regulations, understand financial management concepts, possess business acumen and strong communication skills to identify, analyze and act on information in a range of workplace conditions and ability to plan and evaluate approaches to sometimes unpredicted problems within a framework of existing operations and processes.
• Ability to influence and work on a team by applying communication, engagement and skills to promote and support change and utilize mentoring skills to develop capability of management team members.
• Basic ability to develop focused Action Plans, forecast trends, and develop short term strategic plans. Strong computer skills with Microsoft office, presentation development and delivery

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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