Description
Salary: $47,424 - $71,110
Position Grade: 208G
Department: Water Division
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1684
Location: St. Louis, MO
This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with City of St. Louis Water Division safety and environmental health, and occupational health programs, policies, and procedures. Responsibilities include inspections of work sites, equipment, and facilities owned by the Water division. Implementing training classes and tailgate sessions with crews. Incumbents will work under the general supervision of Safety Officer III (Safety Coordinator). Safety Officers II’s are a vital part of the safety program in problem solving, investigations, assisting in development of proactive safety programs and assessing needs and/or improvements of safety equipment and procedures to keep staff safe in their duties. Safety Officer II’s will be required to assist with traffic control, heavy equipment operations, excavation safety, chemical spills and hazards, industrial operations, confined spaces, personal protective equipment, training, drills, and general office safety. Safety Officer II’s will work both in the field and at the division facilities and will be rotating on call. Must have the ability to work evenings, weekends, and overtime as needed to support safety operations and emergency response.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Inspect worksites for potential hazards.
- Recommend actions to eliminate/reduce workplace hazards.
- Investigate accidents and injuries occurring in the workplace.
- Photograph all accident scenes and collect statements and file reports.
- Facilitates and presents training to City employees on safety issues and procedures.
- Assist in writing and updating procedures and safety manuals.
- Will be a representative of the division on committees and other groups.
- Respond to situations as needed and be on an on-call rotation.
- Perform work assessments for different positions and sections.
- Assist with documentation for worker compensation.
- Perform safety drills and inspections for all facilities.
- Refine and implement OSHA workplace safety standards into the division.
- Track Near-misses, look for safety trends and focus points, and develop and apply realistic mitigations to prevent future near-misses.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor, in favor of a desired outcome. Requires the ability to instruct.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a personal computer, digital camera, motor vehicle and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as injury and accident reports, laboratory results, manuals and policies, OSHA & EPA regulations and nonroutine correspondence.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; requires the ability to interpret descriptive statistics.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
- Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as odors, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift, carry, push and pull objects and materials of moderate weight, twelve (12) to twenty (20) pounds, such as training supplies and sampling equipment. Tasks involve the ability to exert moderate but not constant physical effort, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling in order to conduct worksite inspections.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and odors associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as investigating hazardous worksites.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in Safety Management, Risk Management, Industrial Hygiene or a related field; plus one year of experience in workplace safety administration, occupational safety, environmental safety, or industrial/construction safety. OR, an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
License: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
