# Emergency Management, Business Continuity & Safety Specialist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Provo, Utah
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $34.26 - $53.96
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Emergency Management, Business Continuity & Safety Specialist supports care sites by advancing preparedness, response, and resilience capabilities while promoting a safe environment for caregivers and patients.

This role operates across geographically dispersed sites not tied to a single campus and partners closely with leaders to ensure readiness for emergencies and continuity of operations.

**Essential Functions**

**Emergency Management & Incident Command**

- Supports implementation of emergency management programs across sites within the market or area.

- Assists with activation and operational support of incident command, including support of Administrator on Call (AOC) structures.

- Provides coordination and support during incidents to ensure effective communication, situational awareness, and adherence to response protocols.

- Plans, facilitates, and evaluates exercises (e.g., drills, tabletops) tailored to outpatient settings.

- Contributes to risk assessments and mitigation planning at the clinic level.

**Business Continuity**

- Supports development, maintenance, and validation of business continuity plans across ambulatory sites.

- Partners with leaders to identify critical functions, dependencies, and recovery strategies.

- Assists with downtime preparedness and response (e.g., IT disruptions, facility impacts).

- Helps identify gaps and supports implementation of continuity improvements.

**Market Engagement & Relationship Management**

- Builds and maintains effective working relationships with market, clinic, and/or operational leaders.

- Conducts routine rounding to assess preparedness, reinforce standards, and identify risks.

- Serves as a market-facing resource for emergency management, continuity, and safety guidance.

- Promotes alignment between system standards and clinic-level practices.

**Regulatory and Life Safety Support**

- Supports compliance with life safety, emergency preparedness, and regulatory requirements (e.g., CMS, Joint Commission, OSHA, and EPA).

- Assists with evacuation planning, fire safety, and safety drills and conducts safety rounding, safety inspections, and supports mitigation of hazards.

- Supports workplace violence prevention efforts, including training coordination and awareness initiatives.

**Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene & Security Support**

- Provides basic support for occupational safety programs, including hazard identification and follow-up.

- Assists with industrial hygiene concerns in partnership with subject matter experts.

- Assists with implementation of safety and health programs such as hazard communication.

- Supports incident investigation and assists with root cause analysis.

- Supports clinic-level security awareness and response coordination.

- Escalates complex issues to appropriate specialized teams.

**Training & Preparedness**

- Delivers, tracks, and/or coordinates training for leaders and caregivers on safety, emergency response, and business continuity.

- Supports Administrator on Call (AOC) training and readiness activities.

- Reinforces preparedness through ongoing education, engagement, and just-in-time training.

**Additional Posting Details**

- This role will participate in an on-call rotation following appropriate training and preparation for on-call responsibilities.

- This is a hybrid role supporting multiple facilities across the Canyon South and Southern Utah market areas.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Experience in emergency management, business continuity, safety, or related field.

- Demonstrated ability to build relationships across multiple sites and teams.

- Knowledge of regulatory and accreditation standards (e.g., CMS, Joint Commission, OSHA).

- Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook); ability to prepare reports.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to effectively communicate emergency management and safety information to diverse audiences.

- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Management, Public Health, Safety, Healthcare Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience).

- Experience supporting ambulatory care or distributed healthcare environments.

- Familiarity with incident command systems and healthcare emergency response frameworks.

- Familiarity with industrial hygiene, occupational health, hazardous materials, and environmental compliance.

- Relevant certifications (e.g., CEM, CBCP, ASP).

- OSHA 30-hour certificate.

- Experience facilitating exercises, drills, or training programs.

**Physical Requirements**

- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.

- Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.

- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.

- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment.

- Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment.

**Salary:** $34.26 - $53.96

**Benefits:** We provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

## Skills

### Required
- Program Coordination
- Risk Assessment and Analysis
- Emergency Management Procedures
- Incident Investigations
- Incident Command System (ICS) Knowledge
- Presenting information / training
- Interpersonal and Leadership Skills
- Regulatory Compliance
- Critical Thinking / Problem Solving
- Relationship Building
- Technical Writing / Documentation

### Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Management, Public Health, Safety, Healthcare Administration, or related field
- Experience supporting ambulatory care or distributed healthcare environments
- Familiarity with incident command systems and healthcare emergency response frameworks
- Familiarity with industrial hygiene, occupational health, hazardous materials, and environmental compliance
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CEM, CBCP, ASP)
- OSHA 30-hour certificate
- Experience facilitating exercises, drills, or training programs

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