Occupational Health Specialist - Global Program Lead

About the role

You will help shape and lead Agilent’s occupational health programs globally, with a strong focus on U.S. workers’ compensation, return-to-work outcomes, and employee health risk reduction. This is an individual contributor program leadership role within Global Environmental Health and Safety (EHS).

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in environmental health and safety, occupational health and safety, public health, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, occupational safety, or a related technical field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in EHS, occupational health, workers’ compensation case management, regulatory compliance, or related employee health programs.
• Strong experience managing workers’ compensation cases, cost containment, return-to-work processes, and stakeholder coordination, preferably across multiple U.S. states.
• Experience supporting occupational health or EHS programs in field, laboratory, chemical handling, manufacturing, ergonomics, lifting, soft-tissue injury, or vehicle-related exposure environments.
• Experience working in global or matrixed teams and collaborating across regions and time zones.
• Experience developing and presenting executive-ready business cases, recommendations, and presentations for senior stakeholders.
• Sound judgment, integrity, initiative, resourcefulness, and the ability to make practical decisions in time-sensitive situations.
• Proficiency with Office 365 or similar productivity tools, with the ability to adopt new systems, reporting tools, and data-driven ways of working.

Preferred certifications

• COHN, COHN-S, CPDM, CDMS, CCM, CWCP, ARM, AIC, or another related occupational health, workers’ compensation, disability management, risk management, claims, or case management credential.