Occupational Health Nurse

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace automotive beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta Georgia Novelis has approximately 13000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

The Environmental Health and Safety team located in Bay Minette is seeking an Occupational Health Nurse! This role is responsible for assisting in the development and implementation of safety/occupational health controls policies and procedures to achieve and maintain full compliance with regulatory permit or license requirements in the specific areas of Occupational Health & Safety.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all medical equipment and supplies are maintained and calibrated in accordance with applicable company local State and Federal regulations.
• Develop and lead Novelis Bay Minettes Workers Compensation and Modified Duty Program in conjunction with the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Team. Coordinate care with onsite and offsite medical and emergency rescue personnel as needed and identify and maintain positive working relationships with external medical providers and claims adjusters.
• Develop and promote onsite wellness activities.
• Document injuries/illnesses on appropriate OSHA/NIRS forms and maintain up-to-date regulatory recordkeeping and participate in incident investigation activities.
• Implement and lead plant drug testing program and pre-employment physicals.
• Keep plant leadership personnel informed of injuries/illnesses and work restrictions.
• Maintain secure confidential and up-to-date medical records.
• Coordinate annual Health and Wellness Fair Biometric Screenings along with annual blood drives.
• Develop and provide training for CPR First Aid Bloodborne Pathogens.
• Lead Hearing Conservation Program.
• Conduct annual physicals as required for equipment operation.
• Key resource on medical/health related issues for employees.
• Assist EHS team with coordination of qualitative and quantitative industrial hygiene and noise monitoring assessments.
• Coordinate Respiratory Protection Program requirements such as fit testing and pulmonary function evaluations.
• Assist with plant Ergonomics Program.
• Ensure Occupational Health Program is current and work to continuously improve the program initiatives by benchmarking best practices.
• Ensure all plant emergency equipment (first aid kits AEDs) are stocked and maintained.
• Coordinate all aspects of Novelis Guthries Hearing Conservation Program (scheduling annual testing and results evaluation training and instruction auditing and compliance.) Serve as Hearing Conservation Coordinator.
• Ensure Bloodborne Pathogens Program follows all applicable regulations including collection and disposal of all medical/biohazard waste development of Exposure Control Plan and Hepatitis B vaccinations.
• Provide guidance to all employees on programs and act as lead representative for audits on these programs.
• Lead collection and disposal of all medical/biohazard waste.

Minimum qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) certification required.
• Minimum of five (5) years current nursing experience.
• Occupational Health and working knowledge of OSHA Recordkeeping preferred.

Preferred qualifications

• Effective time management and organizational skills and ability to work with various levels of the organization.
• Excellent communication skills verbal and written.
• Good interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Firm commitment to confidentiality integrity and credibility.
• Proficient in computer software Word PowerPoint Excel and other appropriate software.

What We Offer

Novelis benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality driven by the marketplace and addition to core benefits we provide these unique to the industry benefits:

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave Adoption Assistance Fertility Treatment Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
• Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health family life and career and financial guidance
• Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities wellness spending account programs for building healthy habits virtual physical therapy for joint back and pelvic health health management programs and more.
• Diabetes Management Program
• Pet insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• PerkSpot Discount Program
• Tuition assistance and career development programs!

Novelis newly announced Bay Minette facility will be located 35 miles northeast of Mobile AL and 45 miles west of Pensacola FL and is expected to create approximately 1000 high-paying advanced careers in modern manufacturing. This highly advanced rolling and recycling facility will be the first of its kind. It will primarily serve our customers in the beverage can and automotive markets. Novelis is committed to the community and will actively build partnerships in Baldwin County focused on recycling STEM education and workforce development. At Novelis we believe our culture of collaboration is our competitive advantage and we would love for you to consider building a career with us.

Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.

We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information:
1. Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis
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