Part-time Building Safety Specialist

Please see Special Instructions for more details.

This is a part time position. This position will work during the school year, 6 hours per day, Monday through Friday, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm.

Out-of-state employment is limited to Arkansas, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., and subject to supervisor approval.

Office of University Safety

Unclassified

Applicants must be currently authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

The Building Safety Specialist monitors building access, provides directions and information, performs safety and loss prevention duties, conducts regular walk-throughs in and around a building, responds to emergency and non-emergency situations in and around a building, renders assistance as appropriate, and makes reports. The Building Safety Specialist is instrumental in building safety through proactive safety efforts, such as identifying hazards, building key control, checking safety equipment, submitting work orders, receiving and monitoring package deliveries, maintaining access kiosk information, delivering safety and security lectures as required, and having positive interaction with students, faculty, staff, and guests.

• Maintains a safe and secure building by regularly monitoring persons entering and leaving the building, monitoring building surveillance systems, managing key control, receiving and monitoring packages, conducting walk-throughs of the assigned building, observing for unauthorized personnel or activities, maintaining kiosk information, enforcing University rules, regulations and policies, and reporting violations to the appropriate authority, submitting work orders, checking doors and locks for proper operation, and securing and locking buildings and windows as directed.
• Reduces the potential for injury, loss of life, property theft, and/or destruction of property by conducting building checks for potentially dangerous or unsafe areas and conditions, (e.g., inoperative lighting, unlocked doors, insecure stairway railing, etc.), routinely inspecting fire extinguishers and automated external defibrillators, and making on-the-spot corrections if possible or reporting the conditions to an appropriate authority for correction.
• Reacts to weather, fire, hazardous materials, medical and security emergencies, and natural disasters utilizing the incident command system, assesses the situation, takes mitigation action to protect lives, property, and the environment by following procedures prescribed in the Office of University Safety Policy and Procedures Manual, and assists emergency response.
• Renders assistance at medical emergencies by performing CPR or rendering first aid to the injured person(s), determining the need for additional medical attention, contacting the appropriate agency/office to facilitate emergency medical attention, remaining with the injured person(s) until relieved by an appropriate authority, and preparing and submitting a detailed report.
• Promotes an awareness of safety issues by talking to students, faculty, staff, and others, distributing informational materials regarding safety during normal duties, and conducting presentations or training as scheduled by the Manager, Campus Safety.
• Encourages a proactive approach to safety by meeting with the leaders of University organizations to discuss their specific vulnerabilities to person, property, and equipment loss, assisting with the development of programs to alleviate or reduce identified vulnerabilities, monitoring the progress of those programs, and adjusting or modifying those programs as needed to improve safety.
• Promotes a positive image of the University by providing directions and information to students, faculty, staff, and visitors to a building regarding campus locations, facilities, and activities, and rendering such assistance as requested within capability to provide (e.g.,…