Occupational Medicine Physician

What You'll Do

Collaborate on the frontline: As a pivotal member of an outstanding team, you will diagnose and treat work-related illnesses and injuries with precision, conducting crucial fitness-for-duty physical examinations that keep our workforce at their peak.

Drive elite medical operations: Directly champion the company's internal employee-oriented medical activities, performing essential pre-employment physicals, comprehensive check-ups, and delivering prompt, expert treatment for work-connected illnesses. You will provide unparalleled medical and surgical care in critical industrial accident or disease cases.

Champion health and safety: Attend to patients with unwavering dedication, re-examining disability cases periodically to track and verify their progress. You'll oversee the maintenance of case histories, health examination reports, and other vital medical records. Be the architect of health programs, formulating and administering initiatives that set new standards. Inspect the plant with a keen eye, making impactful recommendations to elevate industrial hygiene and decisively eliminate health hazards.

Master of Occupational Medicine: Practice ambulatory occupational medicine with unparalleled expertise by:

• Delivering swift and effective treatment for illnesses and injuries affecting our dedicated plant employees.
• Executing rigorous new hire and periodic exams that ensure peak performance and safety.
• Critically reviewing clinical records, drug screens as the Medical Review Officer, and health examination reports to definitively determine fitness for duty.
• Implementing and meticulously maintaining groundbreaking health programs mandated by Department of Energy (DOE) or other regulatory authorities.
• Providing strategic recommendations that proactively mitigate safety and health hazards to Senior Leadership.

Lead a world-class clinic: You may oversee multiple nurse practitioners at the plant. This dynamic position is roughly 70% clinical, 30% administrative, guaranteeing a diverse and engaging 40-hour week with limited on-call responsibilities via telephone (one week, every six weeks averaging two to three calls per week). Our Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) accredited clinic is a hub of excellence, staffed by a phenomenal team of physicians, physician assistants/nurse practitioners, registered nurses, psychologists, physical therapists, dietician, and dedicated administrative support staff.

Shape the future of safety: Guaranteed! you'll have the power to recommend groundbreaking medical and health policies, proactively preventing injury and disease. Your work will be guided by pivotal programmatic drivers for medical activities at Pantex, including 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 712, 10 CFR 1046, 10 CFR 707, and 10 CFR 850 & 851.

Inspire and guide: You will customarily and regularly direct the work of four or more employees (meaning two full-time employees or their equivalent, such as one full-time employee and two half-time employees).

Minimum Job Requirements

• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)/Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical school combined with at least 7 years of practicing medicine.
• Must have or be able to obtain, Texas medical license, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) certification, medical review officer (MRO) certification, and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) training.

DOE Order 426.2A Requirements

• 10 years of experience practicing clinical medicine.
• Prefer Board Eligible/Board Certified (BE/BC).
• Occupational Medicine training is preferred, but an Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Emergency Department, or any Specialist physician with appropriate occupational medicine experience will be considered.
• Experience working in a clinical setting with diverse populations.