Safety Coordinator

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

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

Additional duties may be assigned as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three years of related experience.

• 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.

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

OSHA Certification

• Main Campus – College Station, TX.

• Competitive…