Job Description

• • Lead field management and engineering control of all safety, health and environmental elements of NCDOT operations. This includes all DOT facilities, work sites, and operations in Division 7 including Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Orange and Rockingham counties.
  • Provide technical and regulatory assistance on interpretation of Federal/State laws, and recommendations to ensure NCDOT fully meets our responsibilities as an employer under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970.
  • Assist with statewide efforts involving projects such as explosives, hazardous materials management, environmental spills, asbestos, or similar projects.
  • Develop and present safety education on highly technical issues such as Hazard Communication or Excavation, Trenching, and Shoring.
  • Deliver advanced technical and consultative work with responsibility for identifying trends and specific unsafe conditions and safety violations.
  • Develop solutions and recommendations to correct problem areas.
  • Help ensure enforcement of regulations in wide ranging and comprehensive safety and health, hazardous materials management, and emergency planning.
  • Assess and develop safety engineering controls and designs.
  • Perform incident investigations, program auditing, recordkeeping, industrial hygiene surveys and monitoring.
  • Review and evaluate existing health and safety or accident prevention training programs.
  • Develop and provide safety training and education.
  • Design and develop new programs as needed.
  • Help lead emergency planning; interpreting laws, standards and codes; and review and research new/revised safety standards/laws to determine their applicability.
  • Investigate accidents, determine causes, and recommend, develop, and implement corrective actions.
  • Provide supervisory responsibilities.

• • Considerable knowledge of OSHA regulations and federal/state safety and health codes and security regulations and best management practices.
  • Data analysis experience providing strategic direction addressing adverse trends with injuries, security incidents, or Worker Compensation.
  • Basic/intermediate computer skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and databases.
  • Experience managing Safety program policies, procedures, and budgets.
  • Sound knowledge of engineering principles and practices.
  • Ability to understand, interpret, and apply directives, laws, rules, and regulations from local, state and federal agencies.
  • Communication skills to express ideas clearly in written and verbal form, including good presentation and training skills for groups of varying size and education levels.
  • A good understanding of operations of heavy equipment and maintenance/repair procedures.
  • Ability to work independently, analyze, and evaluate work sites, and processes for safety and health considerations.
  • Experience to make decisions and judgments on safety issues and develop recommendations and design modifications.
  • General knowledge of civil, industrial, mechanical, electrical, chemical, and environmental and safety engineering as well as ergonomics, fire protection, and human factors.
  • Knowledge of management sciences, risk management, loss control, health sciences, occupational medicine, and industrial hygiene.
  • A Driver’s License.
  • Good problem-solving skills and demonstrated leadership skills with a working knowledge of project management tools such as:
    • Logic diagrams
    • Flow-charting
    • Decision Sciences
    • Risk analysis
    • Pareto analysis
    • Cause and effect diagrams
    • Run charts
    • Histograms
    • Control charts

• • Experience working with silica in construction, lead in construction, hearing conservation, fleet safety, fall protection in construction, hazard communication, lock out/tag out and employee action plans.
  • OSHA-approved Construction Trainer and First Aid/CPR Trainer.

• • You must be capable of obtaining Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification within a year from hire.

• • Bachelor’s degree in safety engineering, industrial engineering, industrial management or technology, occupational safety, or a physical science or equivalent technical degree, and
  • 3+ years of progressive occupational and safety and health experience; or
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience.

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Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: Award Winning, engineering, Government, great place to work, Living Wage Employer, ncdot, Public Sector, and Veteran Friendly. Salaries: 80,000 - 100,000.

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