Environment Health&Safety Disability Management Specialist 3 Job in Renton, Washington US

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Location Renton, WA

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Position Description

Works with management and employees to initiate and facilitate interactive discussions for medical restrictions and qualifications. Identifies essential job functions and reasonable accommodations, reassignment processes and potential outcomes. Works with third party administrators and Workers' Compensation Administrators to assist with detailed claims management. Performs analysis to ensure consistent placement decisions. Facilitates employee's return to work. Documents, maintains and extracts employee case information and ensures data integrity and confidentiality. Provides early intervention to injured or ill employees to prevent time loss from work. Provides metrics to management.

Competencies

General

[ + ] Build Positive Relationships
Builds effective working relationships within the work group, with interorganizational employees, and occasionally with external customers. Probes for and provides information to clarify situations. Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances others' ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Seeks agreement from work group, with other employees, and occasionally with external customers to support ideas or take partnership-oriented action; uses sound rationale to explain value of actions. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions.

[ + ] Building Trust
Demonstrates honesty; keeps commitments; behaves in a consistent manner. Shares thoughts, feelings, and rationale so that fellow work group members, other internal employees and customers understand personal positions. Listens to others and objectively considers others' ideas and opinions, even when they conflict with one's own. Treats people with dignity, respect, and fairness; gives proper credit to others; stands up for deserving others and their ideas even in the face of resistance or challenge.

[ + ] Communication
Clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Keeps the audience engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames the message in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Accurately interprets messages from others and responds appropriately.

[ + ] Customer Focus
Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships; uses information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; periodically becomes involved in sharing information with customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists higher graded employees and/or project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.

[ + ] Decision Making
Recognizes a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Identifies the need for and collects information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities. Integrates information from a wide variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; creates relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates and/or makes recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Includes fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.

[ + ] Initiating Action
Takes immediate action when confronted with a problem or when made aware of a situation in own or other work area. Implements new ideas or potential solutions without prompting; does not wait for others to take action or to request action. Takes action that goes beyond job requirements in order to achieve objectives.

Technical

[ + ] Analytical Skills
Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the department level.

[ + ] Medical Confidentiality
Complete knowledge of medical confidentiality policies and regulations including Custody and Control of Employee Medical Records Company-wide Procedure, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine guidelines, Health Information Portability Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and other best practices. Ability to use this complete knowledge to contribute to the development of company policy related to medical confidentiality issues.

Basic Qualifications For Consideration

Do you meet the requirements as described in the "Typical Education and/or Experience" section of this requisition?

Do you have experience within the last three (3) years working with injured/ill employees who have medical impairments from a Reasonable Accommodation, Workers' Compensation, Return to Work and/or Disability Management perspective?

Typical Education/Experience

Bachelor's and typically 6 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 4 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Other Job related information

Candidates comfortable working independently and in a team decision making based environment are highly preferred. This position has a high level of daily face to face interaction with employees, managers and other resources working confidential and time sensitive issues via a variety of incoming sources. Candidate should possess a proven ability to manage a heavy case load and be able to prioritize work to adjust to incoming requirements. This position is fast paced, highly interactive and an individual who is open to change and is able to work and communicate professionally with diverse work groups and individuals is highly preferred. Additional working knowledge in areas dealing with Washington State Labor and Industries Laws, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) record keeping guidelines and Boeing internal processes is also highly desired.

Closing Date: 03/27/2012about closing dates

Knowledge of occupational health and safety sciences.

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