Occupational Health And Safety Manager Grade 21

Minimum Qualifications:

Education; Bachelor's degree in risk management, occupational health and safety, business administration, or public administration with coursework in safety, industrial hygiene, worker's compensation, management, and 5 years of related experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in performance of the essential functions and learn, comprehend, and apply all county or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position. Proficient in Word, Excel, Power Point, and Visio.

Purpose of Classification:

Essential Functions:

Oversees an occupational health and safety program for an assigned agency outside the central Personnel Department.

Manages assigned staff, including establishing workloads, prioritizing work assignments, evaluating employee performance, interpreting and enforcing policies and procedures, resolving staff issues, and administering disciplinary action as required.

Creates, develops, and recommends occupational health and safety policies, standards, regulations, practices, and procedures, including determining if existing departmental policies are adequate and ascertaining the need for new safety standards and the use of hazard analysis assessment tools.

Develops and implements departmental health and safety programs to reduce the severity and cost of work-related accidents.

Inspects or surveys workplaces for compliance with established health and safety rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards.

Additional Functions:

Performs other related duties as required.

Performance Aptitudes:

Human Interaction: Acting as a first line supervisor involving assigning work, reviewing work. Requires the ability to act as a first-line supervisor, including instructing, assigning and reviewing work, maintaining standards, coordinating activities, and evaluating employee job performance.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.

Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.

Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving broader aspects of organizational programs and operations, moderately unstable situations, or the direction, control and planning of an entire program or set of programs.

It is the policy of Fulton County that there will be equal opportunity for every citizen, employee and applicant, based upon merit without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, genetics, disability or sexual orientation.