at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
This position will be a key member of the Workplace Services (WPS), being the primary point of contact for all Corporate Global Health and Life Safety needs and initiatives, and report to the Senior Vice President of Global FM Services. The successful candidate requires to be a strategic thinker, effective communicator, and a proactive problem solver who has the ability to balance long-term goals with immediate operational needs in the global landscape of Northern Trust offices. This role will involve planning, implementation, policy making and be a very hands-on position. It will have no direct reports but will involve coordination of many Workplace Services team members and contractors.
Periodic travel to various facilities to investigate incidents or solve problems, as well as travel to various meetings may be required.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and maintain a global health, risk, and safety strategy that aligns with NT's overall objectives
- Create and maintain a Hazard and overall Risk Assessments and regulatory compliance for all account locations to identify potential hazards
- Ensuring compliance with the company standard for the Life Safety team members in evacuation and shelter-in-place procedures
- Identify emerging trends, best practices, and technologies related to health, risk, and safety and integrate into Northern Trust's initiatives
- Develop and maintain a robust Health and Safety plan, incident safety response playbook to address emergencies and health-related matters on a global scale in conjunction with our Business Continuity teams
- Lead and coordinate response efforts during incidents
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish risk reduction plans are monitored for effectiveness
- Conduct thorough health, life, and safety risk assessments across offices to identify potential hazards, assess impact and implement mitigation strategies
- Periodically reviewing online and in-person training courses to ensure they are refreshed
- Arranging CPR and AED training tool for team member and drill documentation (coordinate with FM supplier)
- Clear and consistent communication with program managers in other geographic regions whose knowledge of regional requirements is key to achieving compliance
- Conduct after-action reviews of Life Safety incidents such as medical incidents, to obtain a complete and accurate accounting of facts, establish findings, and make recommendations as to changes in Life Safety policy or practice to develop related proposals to senior leadership
- Track FM global data to ensure all health and life safety requirements and report filings are completed consistently
- Track and manage data associated with any and all accidents, injuries, and near misses, following the appropriate record keeping requirements by OSH/OSHA
- Participate with operating sites as needed to lead and support investigations for analysis of root cause, implement corrective actions, and prepare communications to share lessons learned
- Establish metrics and KPIs...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
