Manager - Environmental Health & Safety

Thank you for your interest in Truckee Meadows Community College. If you need assistance or have questions regarding the application process, please contact Human Resources at (775) 673-7168 orhumanresources@tmcc.edu.

Job Description

Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC), located in Reno, NV is seeking applicants for an Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Manager. The EHS Manager is responsible for the leadership and management of the environmental, health, and safety program for all campuses/sites of TMCC. The EHS program includes the EH&S management system, environmental compliance, occupational health, injury, and incident mitigation and investigation. This includes hazardous material procurement, hazardous waste management and operations, industrial hygiene, asbestos, radiation safety, and fire and life safety. The position provides budget planning, projection, and strategic planning for the College’s EHS functions. The EHS Manager serves on a variety of internal and external committees that promote environmental compliance and sustainability, the TMCC safety culture, and the health and wellness for all TMCC faculty, staff, students, and visitors.

Major Responsibilities (duties include but are not limited to):

EHS Management System:

Develop and administer the college wide EHS Management System to maintain environmental, health, and safety programs, permits and other obligations in an effort to sustain our social and legal license(s) to operate while building and promoting a positive culture of equity and inclusiveness. Includes occupational injury and disease reporting and investigation. The EHS Manager acts as the College Chemical Hygiene Officer.

Training and Exercises:

Implement and maintain a college wide training and exercise program to include all applicable NSHE and regulatory obligations, staff EHS related professional development, and continuous improvement training plan.

Organizational Resilience:

Implement and maintain a robust emergency preparedness, planning, response, and recovery program including supporting business continuity planning, risk management assessments and property loss management.

Professional Development and Department Budgeting:

Maintain professional certification and licenses, attend professional development and subject-matter conferences, participate in and/or chair safety- and other related committees, exercise fiscal responsibility with the EHS budget and expense management, and deploy EHS related continuous improvement projects.

Decisions and Judgements

The EHS Manager role is routinely faced with a variety of unique issues and concerns where new solutions that may have not been previously applied are needed. The role requires decision making can affect an individual, a department, or the College as a whole and must be made with sensitivity to each potential outcome. Most decisions at the EHS Manager level are based on regulatory or NSHE statute, policy, or procedure.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge, understanding of, and the ability to interpret and apply environmental and occupational health and safety regulations to a broad range of institutional areas

• Ability to understand and apply internal NSHE and institutional policy and procedures

• Evaluate, recommend, and implement policies and procedures to assure awareness of, and compliance with, safety, health, and environmental requirements to reduce risk

• Ability to identify and mitigate hazards and risk effectively using a variety of methods and resources including accident and near miss investigation, regulatory and internal inspections, and stakeholder feedback

• Ability to write concise and effective reports, procedures, and other regulatory based documents

• Project management that will include contractors, vendors, and other stakeholders in the regulatory community

• Ability to communicate effectively, lead discussions, and take an active lead role in EH&S related committees

• Ability to work with sensitive and confidential information in relation to employee health, and other restricted information

Personal Contacts

The successful EHS Manager will have the ability and understanding that cultivating relationships and interacting effectively with Leadership, department heads, faculty, staff and other employees at all levels of responsibility is an important piece to building trust and maintaining effective communication. The EHS Manager will also maintain professional relationships with numerous outside contacts including representatives from the NSHE and the regulatory community.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree and four (4) years of related professional experience; OR Associates degree and six (6) years of related professional experience.

• Degree should be in Science or Engineering, including chemistry, biology, industrial hygiene, environmental management, occupational safety, and hazardous materials.

• Professional experience should entail environmental management, hazardous materials management, industrial hygiene, safety system management or similar experience.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Master’s Degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field that may include fields of chemistry, physical, biological, industrial hygiene, environmental, occupational safety, and hazardous materials.

2. Related experience in a higher education setting with multiple sites.

3. Related certifications such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Environmental Manager (CEM), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO), and other related certifications and licensures

Salary and Benefits Information:

Salary: $78,777 - $98,471 Initial salary placement will be dependent on education level and years of experience.

Perks of TIAA

Our retirement plan is beyond compare. Your 19.25% contribution is generously matched by the College. With the faculty retirement plan, you are 100% vested your first day. Sit back and watch your retirement dollars grow! All permanent employees on an annual "A" or "B" contract who are employed at least 50% full-time are eligible to participate in the NSHE retirement program unless they are members of PERS of Nevada.

Perks of Working at TMCC

• Health insurance options including dental and vision - Health Insurance

• 19.25% retirement match in TIAA

• Life insurance, long-term disability, generous annual and sick leave - NSHE Benefits

• Employer-paid long term disability (LTD) at 60% of salary up to $7,500 per month-UNUM.

• Sports and Fitness Center with annual or monthly membership options for employee and spouse/domestic partner.

• ComPsych supports employees through life's difficult moments.

• Professional Grant-in-Aid: TMCC is proud to provide a reduced-rate tuition benefit to faculty and qualified dependents. Faculty can take up to six credits per semester at a reduced rate. Dependents of faculty have unlimited credits, but in order to be eligible children must be unmarried and under the age of 24 and must receive at least 50% of their financial support from the employee and/or employee’s spouse or domestic partner.

• Free parking on all TMCC campus locations.

• No State income tax

• All full-time faculty and staff are provided with a variety of discounts and employee purchase programs.

Additional Information

Degrees

Degrees must be accredited by CHEA - and USDE-Recognized Accrediting Organizations.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. Any expense related to the evaluation will be the responsibility of the candidate.

Sponsorship

TMCC is not able to support sponsorship for employment. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States at the time they begin employment.

Exempt

Yes

Full-Time Equivalent

100.0%

Required Attachment(s)

Please note, once you submit your application the only attachment/s viewable to you will be the attachment/s to the resume/CV section of the application. Any additional required attachment/s to the cover letter, references, additional documents sections of the application, will not be viewable to you after you submit your application. All uploaded attachment/s will be on the application for the committee to review. To request updates to attachments, prior to the committee review of applications, please contact humanresources@tmcc.edu.

In order to be given full consideration all of the following must be attached to your application.

1) Resume/CV

2) Cover Letter

3) Contact Information for three Professional References – Please make a note if you do not want your present employer contacted unless necessary to determine your qualifications for the position.

This posting is open until filled

Qualified individuals are encouraged to apply immediately. Lists of eligible candidates will be established and hiring may occur early in the recruiting process. Recruitment will close without notice when a sufficient number of applications are received or a hiring decision has been made.

Posting Close Date

Note to Applicant

Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and experience with specific reference to each of the minimum and preferred qualifications. Search committees will use this information to determine that applicants meet minimum qualifications as listed in the job announcement.

This posting will close at 12:00 am on the date listed above. The posting will no longer be available to apply to after 11:59 pm the day prior.

All documents, including unofficial transcripts for academic positions, must be received prior to the closing date listed on the job announcement.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion ofa criminal background check upon hire.

As part of the hiring process, applicants for positions in the Nevada System of Higher Education may be required to demonstrate the ability to perform job-related tasks.

Schedules are subject to change based on organizational needs.