Safety Specialist

CITY OF GREENVILLE NORTH CAROLINA
Greenville, North Carolina United States  View Map
Posted: Mar 11, 2025
  • Salary: $60,694.40 - $94,057.60 Annually USD
  • Full Time
  • Public Safety
  • Job Description

    Job Summary

    The purpose of this position is to perform professional work in the development and implementation of a comprehensive safety program which assures that the City of Greenville provides a safe workplace for all employees. This is accomplished by conducting safety training, performing safety inspections, conducting assessments on job hazards, investigating accidents, monitoring and processing workers' compensation claims, and performing other safety functions to minimize risk for the City.

    FLSA Exemption Status: Non-Exempt
    Hiring Salary Range: $60,694.40 - $77,376.00/annually

    Examples of Duties

    • Use a variety of approaches, including job hazard assessments, to prioritize training programs.
    • Develop educational training programs to promote proactive workplace safety concepts.
    • Develop and execute a driver safety program.
    • Communicate and recommend compliance and preventative measures necessary for improving workplace safety.
    • Develop safety policies and procedures applicable to City operations.
    • Schedule and coordinate employee occupational examinations.
    • Ensure the City's compliance with OSHA statutory requirements, standards, and regulations.
    • Interpret and provide technical guidance on health and safety standards pertinent to operations as needed.
    • Prepare and submit mandatory recordkeeping and reports as required by federal and state safety laws.
    • Maintain records of work-related accidents, injuries, and illnesses.
    • Investigate near-miss, first aid, recordable, restricted-duty, and lost-time accidents and incidents.
    • Collect work accident statements, related medical documents and work status records in order to determine workers' compensation eligibility.
    • Review the first report of injury, workers' compensation claims, managed care reports, and trend data using the third-party administrator's database.
    • Serve as liaison between injured workers, supervisors, and third-party administrator adjusters for the City's return to work program.
    • Conduct health and safety compliance inspections at all City-owned and leased facilities.
    • Facilitate emergency action drills and evacuations at City-owned facilities.
    • Coordinate Fire Marshal inspections at all City-owned and leased facilities.
    • Record and submit all regulatory safety findings and violations to City management for corrective action.
    • Keep current on new ideas and techniques for reducing workplace accidents, managing risk, and reducing workers' compensation costs.


    Minimum Qualifications

    Education and Experience:
    • A Bachelor's degree in occupational health and safety, risk management, or a related field; and
    • Over three years of experience in occupational safety or a closely related field.

    REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

    Knowledge of:
    • principles and methods for training, educating and stimulating a diverse group of departments and divisions.
    • federal, state, and local occupational safety and health laws, regulations, and codes.
    • safety and health hazards and applicable safety precautions.
    • interpreting and applying federal and state OSHA statutory requirements, standards, and regulation to City operations.
    Skilled in:
    • conveying information effectively both orally and written.
    • critical thinking, using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
    • complex problem solving, identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
    Ability to:
    • create and implement a safety program across all City departments and division cultures.
    • conduct long-term safety assessments involving continuous improvement in the safety program.
    • inspect City-owned and leased facilities and generate reports acknowledging violations and corrective actions required.
    • investigate accidents and incidents and record reports identifying at-risk behaviors, unsafe acts, and conditions.
    • manage multiple tasks, prioritize urgency of tasks, and necessitate department and division involvement.
    • view problems neutrally and focus on solutions to problems.
    • read and comprehend a multitude of documents, materials, and regulatory standards.
    • compose memos, letters, reports, and charts pertinent to the City's safety program.
    • operate assigned equipment, including computer equipment and various software packages.
    • work cooperatively with regulatory agencies, City officials, other employees, and the general public.
    • work safely without presenting a direct threat to self or others.
    • meet the mental and physical demands of the position.


    Special Requirements

    • FLSA Status: Nonexempt
    • Valid North Carolina driver's license.


    The City of Greenville offers a comprehensive benefits package to all regular full-time employees including vacation, holiday, and sick leave as well as medical, dental, vision, life and short-term disability insurance. Employees in designated part-time positions may participate in some of the benefit programs offered to regular full-time employees.

    Visit the City of Greenville Human Resources Website for a more in depth summary of our benefits.

    Closing Date/Time: 3/30/2025 11:59 PM Eastern
  • ABOUT THE COMPANY

    • City of Greenville
    • City of Greenville

    About Greenville

    Some places have what it takes to help write the story of your life, to help you create and live your life to the fullest: opportunities, people and experiences that open minds and doors; activities that enrich and entertain. Places so welcoming that you feel you’re in the presence of family and friends, and that everywhere you turn, you find yourself in good company.

    As the hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is that place.

    Here, life’s a graceful balance of front-porch friendly and business-world sharp, a balance lit up and alive with all the amenities of a metropolitan university town. Where we enjoy the company of our neighbors on summer nights, talking on the porch about the day’s news and sports scores from the latest Pirate’s game, until someone flips a coin to see who’ll run out for barbeque.

    Walking through the streets of Greenville, you see it has its share of art galleries, museums and festivals that delight; or, close by, the campus of East Carolina University calls to art and culture lovers with its worldly offering of musical concerts, theatrical and dance productions, travel films and lectures. For students with the fire of the future shining in their eyes, ready to turn their dreams loose, the campus calls to them in another voice.

    Yes, you’ll find what you’re looking for here. But in many cases (and maybe this is just as important) what you didn’t even know you were looking for. That’s the way it is in Greenville. What makes it tick is how it makes people tick. As the cultural, educational and economic hub of the region, it’s expansive; it rewards the curious imagination, the entrepreneurial mind.

    If you’re a person with big ideas and big ambitions, Greenville is good company. The smart thinking, hard work and optimism that once made Greenville a leading marketer of tobacco are still prevalent, though now guiding the area’s technology focus with its many bioscience and robotics breakthroughs. No surprise, these victories are trumpeted with as much enthusiasm as the local sports team’s trophy season.

    Located just inland off the North Carolina coast, East of I-95, over 20 parks grace the landscape of Greenville and Pitt County. So if you’re an outdoor enthusiast, you’ll find enough adventure and scenic beauty here to fill up the canvas of your days, and plenty of like-minded people who share your respect for the grandeur of nature, the intoxicating fragrance of our Magnolia trees, picnicking under the shade of oaks, fishing at sundown, or hiking down a path that leads you not to the trail’s end, but to the conclusion that this is where you belong.

    True, in some parts of the world, when you say the word “hub” people think “crowded”, “faceless”, “too noisy to hear myself think”. But we’re different.

    There are crowds … parades down Evans Street. An annual Halloween street party. Students streaming to classes. Participants at major meeting or conferences. Or onlookers gathered down at the Extreme Park or Five Points Plaza to watch BMX bike pros practicing for an event.

    But they’re not faceless crowds.

    There is noise … live music rising from the campus nightlife scene, the hub-bub around the Convention Center, or when the Pirates rally to make the winning score, nothing short of pandemonium.

    But our noise makes your spirits soar.

    In fact, you could say that the hustle and bustle of life in Greenville is conducive to a higher level of thinking and inspiration. One thing’s for sure, the first thought on your mind will be how glad you are to be in Greenville, North Carolina, smack dab in the middle of such good company.

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