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Occupational Safety and Health Specialist, F&S Safety and Compliance (136401)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Occupational Safety and Health Specialist – Occupational Safety and Health Department


Facilities and Services


University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

Facilities & Services (F&S) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is accepting applications for an Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Specialist. The OSH Specialist, under the administrative direction of the Associate Director, Division of Safety and Compliance, assist with the development and implementation of safety program elements.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. Inspects and evaluates facilities, work areas, equipment, materials, and processes for compliance with federal and state safety regulations and written campus programs.
  2. Performs testing, sampling, or surveys of equipment, materials, and environments using direct-read monitors, personal monitoring equipment, and area monitoring equipment.
  3. Orders sample supplies from laboratories, prepares purchase order, completes chain of custody, and prepares samples for shipping.
  4. Maintain technical equipment including field calibration, sensor changeouts, routine cleaning, troubleshooting, and preparation for factory calibration and repair.
  5. Performs respirator fit testing and assists in personnel on safety regulations, policies, and procedures for the selection of appropriate personal protective equipment.
  6. Assists in the development and delivery of training.
  7. Assist in the development and communication of campus policies and procedures to promote compliance with federal and state safety regulations, and national consensus standards.
  8. Participate on campus safety committees.
  9. Collects and maintains complete and accurate documentation, records of activities, and other data in various physical and electronic information management systems.
  10. Develops guidance documents and provides support to campus customers in the use of departmental physical and electronic information management systems.
  11. Compiles results, findings, and other data associated with various established departmental metrics in various physical and electronic information management systems and distributes as directed.
  12. Develops and evaluates data management tools, such as forms and standard reports, in various physical and electronic information management systems.
  13. Develops and maintains content in departmental website, server and other information management systems.
  14. Operates a university vehicle to travel between work locations for duties such as attending meetings, performing inspections, or delivering training.
  15. Support the Mission, Vision, Values and Guiding Principles of Facilities & Services.
  16. Pursue professional development activities to expand knowledge, maintain technical expertise and keep abreast of relevant scientific and professional developments in occupational safety and health.
  17. Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Education:
Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety, environmental engineering, environmental health, safety engineering, industrial hygiene, or a closely related field.

Required Work Experience:
One year of professional experience in a safety or compliance related field.

Preferred Work Experience:

One year relevant experience providing occupational safety and health in construction, manufacturing, wood or metal fabrication, agriculture, public works, utilities, or higher education. Experience with an environmental, health and safety information management system. Experience with Gensuite and learning management systems. Experience classifying, tracking, and trending workplace injuries and illnesses.

Preferred Training, Licenses, or Certifications:

  1. ASP, GSP, CHST, or OHST.
  2. OSHA 10 and/or 30 hour General and/or Construction Industry trained.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  1. Knowledge of occupational safety and health hazards and programs.
  2. Basic understanding of monitoring/sampling methods for chemical, biological, and physicals hazards.
  3. Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  4. Knowledge of chemical and physical hazards, and methods to protect against associated injuries and illnesses.
  5. Ability to work and communicate with a diverse workforce.
  6. Experience and flexibility with limited resources, changing priorities and compliance awareness of a diverse workforce.

Environmental Demands:

  1. May work in extreme weather conditions.
  2. May be exposed to potential danger from moving parts and equipment.
  3. May be exposed to heavy dust, loud noise, chemical fumes, welding torches, and other general conditions found within the construction trades.
  4. May work around radiation and/or biohazardous chemical with proper training.
  5. May have to use respiratory protection, protective clothing, and other proper personal protective equipment as needed.
  6. May have to climb ladders, access elevated work locations, access tunnels, work around/in confined space and hazards.

Physical Demands:

  1. Strong mix of office and field work.
  2. Field work includes extensive walking and climbing.
  3. Position involves frequently lifting tools, toolboxes, technical equipment, equipment cases/containers, and packages for shipment weighing up to 50 pounds.
  4. Must be capable of wearing all required personal protective equipment including respiratory protection, personal fall arrest systems, eye and face protection, foot protection, head protection, and body protection.

SALARY AND APPOINTMENT INFORMATION:


This is a full-time Civil Service OSH Specialist (Safety/Environmental Compliance Specialist) position on a 12-month service basis. The expected start date is as soon as possible after October 5, 2020. Salary is commensurate with experience.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND DEADLINE INFORMATION:


Applications must be received by October 5, 2020. Apply for this position using the “Apply for Position” button below. If you have not applied before, you must create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu. If you already have a profile, you may be redirected to that existing profile via email notification. To complete the application process:


Step 1) Submit the Staff Vacancy Application.
Step 2) Submit the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability forms.
Step 3) You must then upload your cover letter, resume (months and years of employment must be included), and academic credentials (unofficial transcripts) and names/contact information for three references.

In order to be considered as a transfer candidate, you must apply for the position using the “Apply for Position” button below. Applications not submitted through this website will not be considered. For further information regarding the position, you may contact Nicole McCurry at nmccurry@illinois.edu. For questions regarding the application process, please contact 217-333-2137.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Facilities and Services Category:2-Administrative Title:Occupational Safety and Health Specialist, F&S Safety and Compliance (136401) Open Date:09/14/2020 Close Date:10/05/2020 Organization Name:FandS Safety and Compl-OSH

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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