EHS Specialist

NBCUniversal has an opportunity for a talented individual to join their dynamic Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Operations & Technology Team working in close partnership with the Global Security Operations and Business Continuity & Crisis Management teams. The purpose of this position is to support overall EHS program implementation with an emphasis on West Coast Studio Operations, Universal City Studios.  The successful candidate will work with management teams, Universal City facility, Universal Studios Hollywood, and support domestic operations, as assigned.

The ideal candidate must have strong technical knowledge, self-motivation qualities and excellent interpersonal skills, and be able to influence teams to ensure compliance with all NBCUniversal, federal, state, and local environmental, occupational safety and health policies, rules and regulations as applicable.

Responsibilities

• Provide EHS-related support for the West Coast Studio Operations locations.

• Conduct inspections and hazardous materials determinations, recommend updates or improvements to operations, identify trend changes based on gathered data, with a focus on environmental endpoints, and maintain government database information as assigned.  

• Perform incident investigation and root cause analysis.

• Perform health risk assessments of selected operations.

• Manage consultants to perform health risk assessments, program development, and conduct indoor air quality (IAQ) investigations.

• Manage and maintain site chemical inventory.  

• Approve chemicals for use in the studio lot.

• Conduct health and safety program audits.

• Respond to incidents and complaints regarding chemicals, indoor air quality, mold, noise and radiation.

• Develop programs for technical EHS areas.

• Advise, direct and instruct personnel on correct implementation of technical EHS requirements.

• Perform health and safety inspections.

• Provide weekly and monthly metrics.

• Perform training as needed.

• Interact and provide guidance to tenants and non-employees.

• Participate in Safety Team meetings including developing content and presenting.

• Answer and respond to Safety Hotline concerns.  Respond to emergencies during work and off hours.

• Manages day-to-day use of internal electronic systems (Gensuite) and ensures that all tasks, inspections, action items, etc. are properly tracked/documented and actions closed in a timely manner.

• Analyze EHS Data for insights on how to support performance improvement and to effectively improve processes with minimal direction and information. 

• Conduct investigations of incidents, significant events and emergencies promptly in accordance with company policies and/or applicable laws and regulations.

• Assist operations with preparation and coordination of regularly scheduled audits and reviews from both internal and external inspections.  Meet deadlines on any action items/MAPs resulting from audit and provide documentation supporting resolution.

• Coordinate and accompany outside regulatory agency regulators or inspectors that visit the operations as assigned, e.g., Los Angeles County CUPA, Los Angeles City CUPA.