EHS Disability Management Specialist 3\4
Works and/or advises with management, employees, medical, and vocational rehabilitation counselor to initiate and facilitate interactive discussions for medical restrictions and qualifications. Identifies essential job functions and reasonable accommodations, reassignment processes and potential outcomes. Works/Advises employees with complex matters related to working with third party administrators and Workers' Compensation Administrators to assist with detailed claims management. 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 status reports to senior management and customers. Leads and advises team members on the application of early intervention to injured or ill employees. Provides consultation, education and training for disability management related processes.
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.
Technical• Collective Bargaining
Basic - Complete knowledge of applicable portions of relevant collective bargaining agreements.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of applicable portions of relevant collective bargaining agreements.
• Government Laws/Regulations
Basic - Complete knowledge of relevant government laws and regulations impacting the functional responsibilities of the occupation.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of relevant government laws and regulations impacting the functional responsibilities of the occupation.
• Medical Confidentiality
Basic - 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.
Preferred - Advanced/expert 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 extensive, specialized knowledge to contribute to the development of company policy related to medical confidentiality issues.
Basic Qualifications For ConsiderationAre you willing to work flexible hours to support all three shifts?
Do you have experience implementing disability management processes within a manufacturing environment?
Typical Education/Experience
Level 3 - 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. Level 4 - Bachelor's degree and typically 10 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 8 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Other Job related information
Strong communication skills are required for this position, as the successful candidate will work with people across all departments in all job levels. The successful candidate will have excellent teamwork abilities that show experience working with other organizations to solve problems and issues. Experience with OSHA record-keeping regulations is desired.
- Business Unit Commercial Airplanes
- Division Bca Supply Chain Mgt & Ops
- Program Fabrication
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? Yes
Closing Date: 04/06/2012
