Safety Specialist

Minimum Starting Salary: $56,652.26 per year

The City of Waco is seeking a dedicated Safety Specialist to join our team and help ensure a safe, compliant, and healthy work environment for all employees. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of workplace safety standards, regulatory compliance, and proactive risk management.

• Associate’s degree in Occupational Safety and Health, or a related field and 1 year experience in occupational safety, municipal maintenance operations, public works, utilities, or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Valid Texas Driver’s License

• Experience with conducting Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and incident investigations

The Safety Specialist is responsible for assisting in the development and implementation of safety and health programs that will assure compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards and allow the acquisition of ISO 45001 certification; and ensures that inclusion and cooperation are focal points of safety efforts so that the City of Waco's safety programs encompass a culture characterized by teamwork, commitment, compliance, and accountability.

• Promotes initiatives that improve and sustain the safety, health, security, and welfare of all personnel.
• Contributes to providing best-in-class safety leadership and service across the organization.
• Administers Environmental Health and Safety best practices with a focus on achieving Best-in-Class performance.
• Participates in communicating governing safety regulations and appropriate industry “best practices” and internal “best practices” to all employees to ensure continuous safety and health performance improvement.
• Conducts activities inherent to the safety function, such as incident investigations, safety audits, trend analysis, training, job safety analyses, and job safety observations that are intended to embed a safety mindset throughout the organization.
• Collaborates with the Risk Coordinator in analyzing workers’ compensation claims and trends and develops plans for mitigating risk.
• May be required to respond after hours, including holidays and weekends, in the event of a departmental or City-wide emergency.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• Supports the relationship between the City of Waco and the general public by demonstrating courteous and cooperative behavior when interacting with residents, visitors, and City staff, maintains confidentiality of work-related issues and City information
• Lives the City of Waco Values: equity & inclusion, excellence & innovation, integrity, people, and teamwork.