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General Information

Work Location: West Hills, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm
Posted Date
03/07/2025
Salary Range: $76200 - 158800 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
22706

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

At UCLA Health, we go beyond careers, we create safer environments that elevate every life we touch. If you’re passionate about health and safety, bring your expertise to our team.

As a Senior Environmental Health & Safety Specialist at UCLA West Valley Medical Center, you will:

  • Lead and support EHS programs, ensuring compliance with regulations and best practices.
  • Oversee key areas, including Respiratory Protection, Industrial Hygiene, Injury and Illness Prevention, Workplace Violence Prevention, Fire Safety, Ergonomics, Hazardous Materials, and Radiation Safety.
  • Develop performance improvement strategies to enhance safety for staff, patients, and visitors.
  • Advise Medical Center leadership on regulatory requirements and safety policies.
  • Ensure UCLA Health’s safety policies remain current, effective, and well-implemented.

Join us and help create a safer, healthier future.



Salary Range: $76,200-$158,800 Annually

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • Extensive previous experience of Respiratory Protection, Hazardous Materials, Fire Safety and Occupational Safety Programs, including IIPP, Ergonomics.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Safety, Engineering, Public Health, or similar relevant fields and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Recent experience working with injury prevention and occupational safety, ergonomics, hazardous materials, or other EHS Programs.
  • Knowledge of industrial hygiene, environmental health, and infection control practices.
  • In-depth knowledge of how hospital operations operate safely and in compliance with all laws, regulations, accreditation standards, policies, and procedures.
  • Knowledge of workplace ergonomics, proper use of personal protective equipment, and safe practices related to an airborne and bloodborne pathogen, chemical, and non-ionizing radiation exposures.
  • Advanced level verbal and written communication skills.
  • Advanced interpersonal skills.
  • Skill in reading, understanding and interpreting National and State laws and Hospital Safety codes.
  • Knowledge of Medical Center Safety policies and procedures.
  • Ability to conduct and lead training and education sessions
  • Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with other staff members, managers, administration and external persons and regulatory agencies
  • Ability to make effective presentations to convey information on safety policies, procedures and issues.
  • General knowledge of Joint Commission standards.
  • Skill in preparing concise, logical and grammatically correct memos, policies, reports and other documents.
  • Experience with various software programs such as Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access; databases, e-mail systems, internet, etc. and Storyline 360.
  • Must be able to work special work schedules such as evening and nightshifts, work occasional overtime, and on-call rotation schedule.
  • Must be able to wear appropriate safety equipment.
  • Must participate in the medical monitoring program.

Preferred:

  • Certification in health & safety or related industry
  • Must possess a CA driver’s license within 3 months of hiring and participate in the DMV Pull Notice.
  • Safety-related experience working in a healthcare setting.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.