Occupational Health Specialist – Global Program Lead

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🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $122.1k - $190.7k / year

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Agilent Technologies

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1999

🔬 Science

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 $500M Post-IPO Debt on 2019-09

Science • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Agilent Technologies is a global leader in the field of analytical and laboratory instruments. The company offers a diverse range of products and solutions, including gas and liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, lab supplies, and software and informatics. Agilent serves various industries, such as biopharma, food and beverage testing, clinical diagnostics, and environmental testing. Additionally, Agilent provides comprehensive services for lab management, maintenance, and instrument repair. They focus heavily on advancing science through sustainable solutions and supporting genomics, pathology, and cancer research with advanced technologies.

📋 Description

• Lead U.S. workers’ compensation case management, cost containment, and return-to-work processes in partnership with employees, managers, HR, medical providers, third-party administrators, insurance partners, and legal counsel. • Manage core occupational health programs, including travel health, medical surveillance, ergonomics and injury prevention, AED readiness, wellness, and related employee health initiatives. • Establish processes, metrics, and governance to drive consistent program execution across regions and sites while supporting local regulatory requirements. • Simplify and modernize occupational health and workers’ compensation processes through continuous improvement, digitization, and better use of data. • Partner with EHS, HR, Treasury, Security, business leaders, regional teams, and external providers to align priorities, resolve issues, and support effective implementation. • Manage external occupational health partners, including third-party administrators, insurance brokers, travel health providers, and other service providers. • Ensure occupational health programs comply with applicable regulations, company standards, insurance requirements, and EHS management expectations. • Make practical, risk-based decisions involving occupational injuries, illnesses, claims, return-to-work restrictions, investigations, corrective actions, and case escalation. • Support audits and self-assessments to confirm occupational health programs are effective, documented, and aligned with internal requirements. • Provide subject matter expertise and targeted education on workers’ compensation, case management, cost containment, ergonomics, injury prevention, early intervention, AED awareness, emergency response, and occupational health risks across field, laboratory, manufacturing, and office environments. • Analyze claims, incident, return-to-work, cost, and program data to identify trends, define KPIs, assess risk, and develop executive-ready business cases, presentations, and recommendations.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in environmental health and safety, occupational health and safety, public health, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, occupational safety, or a related technical field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered. • 8+ years of relevant experience in EHS, occupational health, workers’ compensation case management, regulatory compliance, or related employee health programs. • Strong experience managing workers’ compensation cases, cost containment, return-to-work processes, and stakeholder coordination, preferably across multiple U.S. states. • Experience supporting occupational health or EHS programs in field, laboratory, chemical handling, manufacturing, ergonomics, lifting, soft-tissue injury, or vehicle-related exposure environments. • Experience working in global or matrixed teams and collaborating across regions and time zones. • Experience developing and presenting executive-ready business cases, recommendations, and presentations for senior stakeholders. • Sound judgment, integrity, initiative, resourcefulness, and the ability to make practical decisions in time-sensitive situations. • Proficiency with Office 365 or similar productivity tools, with the ability to adopt new systems, reporting tools, and data-driven ways of working. • Preferred certification such as COHN, COHN-S, CPDM, CDMS, CCM, CWCP, ARM, AIC, or another related occupational health, workers’ compensation, disability management, risk management, claims, or case management credential.

🏖️ Benefits

• bonus • stock • benefits