Global Occupational Health Program Manager
Posted Sep 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
You'd work with crisis management, benefits, safety, human resources and legal. Which of those most often pulls in a different direction, and how do you handle it?
What they are checking: Honest read of the competing interests around an injured employee
Tell me about a time you pushed back on a business decision on health grounds.
What they are checking: Whether they will stand behind health advice when the business disagrees, since a program that never says no protects nobody.
What would you do
An employee's medical information is relevant to a safety decision but confidential. How do you handle that?
What they are checking: Whether they protect medical confidentiality while sharing only the work restrictions needed, which is the core trust boundary of occupational health.
The role supports new and existing clinics, both on site and contracted. What's different about overseeing a contracted clinic?
What they are checking: Whether they can hold a contracted clinic to standards through clear expectations, audits and metrics, since they cannot manage its staff directly.
This is based at North Chicago with a global scope. What travel would this realistically involve, and does that work for you?
What they are checking: Whether they have thought honestly about global travel demands, since this role needs real time on site in different regions.
About the work
This role is accountable for preventing work-related injury and illness globally. Walk me through an occupational health program you built or improved.
What they are checking: Whether they have built or improved a whole program with goals, standards and results, not only delivered care to individual patients.
How do you run medical case management for a work-related injury in collaboration with on-site occupational health, safety and leave teams?
What they are checking: The coordination named in the posting, which is where cases go wrong
What belongs in a medical surveillance procedure, and how do you decide who is in scope?
What they are checking: Whether they understand how to design medical surveillance, matching exams to real exposures so the program protects people without wasting effort.
How do you make a global program work when the local regulations and the local medical systems are different everywhere?
What they are checking: Whether they can set one global standard while adapting to local laws and medical systems, rather than forcing a United States model everywhere.
What measures tell you injury prevention is actually working, beyond the injury count?
What they are checking: Whether they track leading indicators like near misses, exposure trends and surveillance completion, which show prevention working before injuries happen.
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