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Job Title

Safety Coordinator

Agency

Texas A&M Engineering

Department

Chief Operating Officer

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

College Station, Texas

Job Type

Staff

Job Description

Why work for Texas A&M Engineering?

Who we are

Texas A&M Engineering is a large employer in the great and growing cities of Bryan/College Station, offering thousands of career opportunities in a wide variety of fields. We are deeply committed to recruiting and retaining a talented workforce that embraces our core values of respect, excellence, leadership, loyalty, integrity, and service. Texas A&M Engineering offers competitive salaries, full benefits, an extensive support network, and above all, an enriching and highly collaborative working community that is deeply passionate about our vision for higher education, research, and public service.

Job Description

Purpose:

The Safety Coordinator plays a key role in safety compliance for the vast laboratories of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. This position performs highly advanced and specialized work to ensure compliance with Federal, State, and local regulatory agencies, as well as Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) policies and regulations. Through routine site-visits to labs, identifies potential safety concerns or enhancements and provides a plan for corrective action.

Responsibilities:

Laboratory Safety Audit & Compliance (75%)

+ Oversee, manage and conduct routine review, inspection and monitoring of Engineering laboratory facilities and safety equipment to ensure a safe environment and maintain compliance.

+ Through routine site-visits to labs, identifies unsafe conditions or safety non-compliance and provides plan for corrective action.

+ Monitors compliance with safety equipment certifications.

+ Provides reports, letters, information, and support to ensure correction of related enhancements, concerns, violations, inadequacies or objectives.

+ Provides expertise to laboratory users regarding safety and compliance evaluations, recommendations, and follow-ups.

+ In collaboration with team members of Engineering Operations, responds to laboratory and facility needs.

+ Assists laboratory managers in maintaining compliance in the collection, transport, storage, and disposal of chemicals and hazardous waste as appropriate.

+ May require driving an Engineering vehicle to various locations across main campus and RELLIS.

+ Maintains a safety technical library and current knowledge of safety rules, regulations and standards.

+ Develops standard operating procedures as it relates to laboratory safety.

+ Knowledge of safety and sanitation rules and standards.

Collaboration and Training (20%)

+ Provides expert counsel in laboratory set-up and decommissioning.

+ Provides training to laboratory users on appropriate safety procedures.

+ Participates in Engineering Laboratory safety related meetings.

+ Collaborates with TAMU Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) to promote routine and complex laboratory safety measures including required inspections.

+ Maintains current knowledge of laws and requirements imposed upon the agency as it relates to laboratory safety and compliance.

+ Assists in the development and monitoring of laboratory safety plans.

+ Assists in maintaining comprehensive manuals, guides, checklists, presentations, procedures, processes and policies for programs.

Other Duties as Assigned (5%)

What we need:

+ Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience

+ Three years of related experience.

What is helpful:

+ Bachelors degree in a technical related field or combination of education and experience.

+ Experience in an environmental health and safety field such as industrial hygiene, fire safety, environmental science, occupational safety or occupational health.

+ Excellent oral and written communication skills.

+ Ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with others.

Licenses, Certifications and Registrations

Valid State of Texas Driver license or the ability to obtain one within 60 days of hire.

OSHA Certification

Work Location:

+ Main Campus – College Station, TX.

Texas A&M Engineering provides an outstanding benefits package including but not limited to:

+ Competitive health benefits.

+ Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays.

+ Vision, Dental, Life, and Long-Term Disability insurance options.

+ Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS), a defined benefit retirement plan with 8.25% employer contribution.

+ Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Deferred Account 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation Program 457(b).

+ Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses

+ Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional development opportunities.

+ Tuition assistance: https://engineering.tamu.edu/information/esac/educational-assistance-programs.html

+ Wellness program release time offered to employees to promote work/life balance.

Helpful Applicant Information

Required Materials for Application:

+ Resume/CV

+ Three work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor/former supervisor.

+ Letter of interest

Compensation Philosophy:

+ Recruit and retain a high-performing workforce through competitive compensation and career development including career pathing, coaching and skills development.

+ Recognize and reward exceptional performance based on individual and team contributions to the growth and success of Texas A&M Engineering.

+ Offer total rewards through flexible benefits, professional development, and work-life balance. Maintain an equitable and transparent process for compensation decisions.

+ Support, reinforce, and align compensation decisions with budgetary and financial strategies to ensure growth and sustainability.

Employment Eligibility Verification

+ If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in delay of start date.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.