Nashville, Tennessee

Vanderbilt University is seeking a strategic, high-impact leader to serve as their Assistant Director of Radiation and Laser Safety (RLS). Reporting directly to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for EHSS, you will serve as the university’s Radiation Safety Officer (RSO), overseeing a comprehensive program that protects our world-class research community, environment, and property.
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This is a critical leadership role designed for an expert who balances technical mastery with the ability to navigate a complex academic environment.

The Impact You’ll Make

• Strategic Leadership: Provide visionary and tactical direction for the RLS program, ensuring a safe environment for faculty, staff, students, and visitors across the university’s research and teaching missions.
• Regulatory Authority: Serve as the primary liaison with federal, state, and local agencies, ensuring total compliance with all RLS regulations.
• Program Transformation: Lead the high-stakes transition of VUMC’s Office of Clinical and Research Safety activities into unified university operations.
• Innovation & Informatics: Champion a data-driven safety culture by leveraging safety informatics, metrics, and modern instructional technology to drive organizational efficiency.
• Collaborative Governance: Represent EHSS on vital committees, including the Radiation Safety Committee, Risk Management, and Emergency Management Operations.

Primary Responsibilities

• RSO Stewardship: Act as the organization’s Radiation Safety Officer, partnering with university leadership to mitigate risk and ensure best practices.
• Workforce Development: Design and lead comprehensive training programs focused on RLS behaviors and compliance excellence.
• Audits & Inspections: Direct all RLS audits, proactively developing and executing remediation plans.
• Relationship Management: Build and sustain positive, transparent relationships with regulators and internal research stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement: Spearhead initiatives to modernize and refine RLS policies, programs, and safety software.

What You Bring to the Team
Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Master’s Degree in a relevant field.
• Certification: Must be a Certified Health Physicist (CHP) or National Registry of Radiation Protection Technician (NRRPT).
• Experience: 8+ years of progressive Radiation Safety management experience.
• Authorization: Unrestricted authorization to work in the U.S.
• Location: Ability to commute to or relocate to Nashville, TN daily.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years of Radiation Safety management experience, ideally within a complex research university or clinical environment.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale organizational transitions.

Mazda Toyota Manufactuing – Huntsville, Alabama

Provide safety support, at night for both plant wide and specific production areas through floor activities, team member involvement, regulatory knowledge, and proactive activity to improve safety culture and regulatory compliance. Implement programs and projects to foster continuous improvement.

As part of the above, and on an ongoing basis, will also:

• Establish strong team member relations, at all levels and provide support for people development, coaching, and mentoring with a focus on teamwork and inclusion
• Work closely with advisors from Mazda and Toyota
• Provide leadership and support for plant wide safety and shop safety programs and activities
• Engage with shops to maintain OSHA compliance
• Execute the MTM safety management system
• Support and lead incident investigations
• Identify and prioritize risks related to safety issues and conditions and develop sustainable action plans to reduce and/or eliminate those risks
• Coordinate with Early Intervention Specialists on process improvements
• Provide safety support to designated department and/or shop
• Influence team member behavior as it relates to safety priorities and interact with team members through Safety Task Force groups, department meetings, incident investigations, and projects.
• Implement shop and plant projects to improve safety systems and culture, to include OSHA Safety Compliance and Culture-based or other programs designed to improve plant safety and awareness
• Track, monitor and share safety trend and data analysis
• Support Ergonomics programs that include but not limited to:· Pilot program trials, risk assessments, training programs, evaluations and countermeasures, ErgoVision and Tumeke, physical demand assessments, total worker health, and early intervention support
• Audit processes related to assigned Safety compliance programs (e.g. HAZCOM implementation and program elements)
• Maintain records and incident management system software for OSHA compliance (OSHA Recordkeeping)
• Administer plant-wide PPE program and third-party vendor contract
• Lead safety promotion activities, including annual Safety Month and culture-based programs
• Develop and/or identify and deliver safety training materials and programs
• Coordinate annual safety training materials and schedule
• Generate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Tracking for daily, weekly and monthly reports
• Complete annual compliance and corporate reporting requirements
• Support Safety Management System development and implementation
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the department
• Be available to work outside of normal work schedule, including but not limited to weekends, holidays, shutdowns, and travel as needed (domestically and internationally)

To apply for this position, visit the website at Safety Specialist – Mazda/Toyota – Huntsville, AL

Cobb County Government Risk and Safety Department

Starting salary range $56,794-73,833.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops and conducts safety training programs to include driver training, utility flaggers, accident investigation, back injury prevention, confined space entry, LOTO and more.
• Conducts safety inspections of property, grounds, and equipment to identify, locate and correct potential hazards.
• Assists department management in ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and ordinances pertaining to safety and loss prevention.
• Implements safety and loss prevention programs.
• Makes observations of work sites and road observations of vehicles for safety compliance and employees are in compliance with County policy.
• Designates safety review boards and internal safety committees consisting of department employees; facilitates activities of boards/committees and monitors corrective actions.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Risk Management, Occupational Health & Safety, Public Administration, or related field; supplemented by three years progressively knowledgeable and skilled experience in OSHA training and loss control and prevention; or any equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities for this job.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Driver’s License.

Apply directly here: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/cobbcounty/jobs/5110824/safety-specialist