Senior Environmental Safety Specialist

Overview

The Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) of Greater Cincinnati seeks a Safety Professional with a wide variety of experience in construction safety or related fields. Experience should encompass working to promote safe operations on construction sites. The incumbent will manage several OSHA programs such as:

• Trenching and Excavation
• Fall Protection and Prevention
• Permit Required Confined Space Entry
• Walking Working Surfaces
• PPE
• Hearing Conservation
• Respiratory Protection
• Other safety programs as assigned.

These programs may require certification that will be provided by MSD if not already obtained.

Additionally, the employee will establish a field presence in MSD’s Engineering and Collection operating divisions to provide safety guidance and minimize injuries. The incumbent will support MSD’s Engineering Division by driving continuous improvement through reviewing and auditing construction site safety plans provided by contractors for OSHA compliance and performing site visits with MSD inspectors to support them in ensuring safe operations on MSD construction sites.

They will also support MSD’s Collection Division by auditing and improving safe field operations of trenching and excavation crews.

The incumbent will also develop and deliver training for OSHA program as well as MSD safety policies.

• Biology, chemistry, physics as they apply to environmental management and/or health andsafety.
• Principles and practices of environmental management and/or health and safety management.
• Research, investigation, and analysis techniques and principles.
• City facilities, equipment, materials, and job functions.
• Statistical principles and methods.
• English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Federal, state, and local codes, laws, and regulations pertaining to environmentalmanagement and/or health and safety.
• Training processes, techniques, methods, and procedures.

• Operate a computer and other standard office equipment in performance of assigned duties.
• Operate monitors and various instruments in performance of job.
• Operate assigned vehicle in performance of job duties.

• Inspect complex city facilities, equipment, materials, and employee work practices to determine unsafe conditions or environmental problems.
• Recommend and implement goals, policies, and procedures for providing effective and efficient environmental or health and safety practice within assigned department.
• Prepare clear and concise analytical and statistical reports.
• Analyze problems, identify alternative solutions, project consequences of proposed actions, and implement recommendations in support of goals.
• Interpret and apply federal, state, and local codes, laws, and regulations.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Respond to requests and inquiries from the general public.
• Work independently in the absence of supervision.
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Recognize hazards and respond with plausible solutions.

Illustrative only. Any one position within this classification may not include all of the duties listed nor do the listed examples include all of the tasks which may be performed.

• Conducts on-site inspections and investigations of complex operations and facilities to ensure environmental or safety compliance; notifies departments of environmental or safety problems and monitors corrective action that is taken; evaluates needs for environmental or safety training and provides training to assigned departments.
• Participates as a member of environmental or safety audit teams performing assessments for safety enhancements, waste minimization, pollution prevention, energy efficiency, cost reductions, improvements in compliance status, and/or mitigation of adverse health/safety or environmental impacts.
• Maintains, calibrates, and operates instrumentation and sampling equipment; evaluates employee exposures to chemical, physical and environmental hazards; monitors environmental quality; responds and assists in resolution of employee health and safety hazards and environmental issues; and provides guidance to assigned departments.
• Prepares analytical and statistical…