• Lead U.S. workers’ compensation case management, cost containment, and return-to-work processes in partnership with employees, managers, HR, medical providers, third-party administrators, insurance partners, and legal counsel.
• Manage core occupational health programs, including travel health, medical surveillance, ergonomics and injury prevention, AED readiness, wellness, and related employee health initiatives.
• Establish processes, metrics, and governance to drive consistent program execution across regions and sites while supporting local regulatory requirements.
• Simplify and modernize occupational health and workers’ compensation processes through continuous improvement, digitization, and better use of data.
• Partner with EHS, HR, Treasury, Security, business leaders, regional teams, and external providers to align priorities, resolve issues, and support effective implementation.
• Manage external occupational health partners, including third-party administrators, insurance brokers, travel health providers, and other service providers.
• Ensure occupational health programs comply with applicable regulations, company standards, insurance requirements, and EHS management expectations.
• Make practical, risk-based decisions involving occupational injuries, illnesses, claims, return-to-work restrictions, investigations, corrective actions, and case escalation.
• Support audits and self-assessments to confirm occupational health programs are effective, documented, and aligned with internal requirements.
• Provide subject matter expertise and targeted education on workers’ compensation, case management, cost containment, ergonomics, injury prevention, early intervention, AED awareness, emergency response, and occupational health risks across field, laboratory, manufacturing, and office environments.
• Analyze claims, incident, return-to-work, cost, and program data to identify trends, define KPIs, assess risk, and develop executive-ready business cases, presentations, and recommendations.