OSH Safety Compliance Officer I

State of North Carolina

13d • $61,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This posting will close at 11:59 p.m. the night before the end date. This position may be filled as Safety Compliance Officer (SCO) Trainee if there are no fully qualified SCOI candidates in the applicant pool. The hiring salary for a SCO Trainee is $55,823. The hiring salary for a fully qualified SCOI is $61,000. The Occupational Safety and Health Division (OSH Division or OSHNC) of the Department of Labor, under the direction of the North Carolina Deputy Commissioner of Labor, is the lead state agency with the responsibility of fostering safe and healthy workplaces for more than four million employees and migrant workers in more than two hundred seventy-five thousand workplaces in North Carolina by educating, developing, and enforcing compliance to safety, health, and agriculture laws, rules, regulations, and standards. OSH Compliance Bureaus: OSH Compliance, comprised of the East and West Bureaus, conducts inspections to identify safety and health hazards that are in violation of OSHA standards, documents those violations, and then issues the appropriate citations and penalties per established procedures. The Compliance inspectors identify corrective measures for each hazard and work closely with the employer to ensure implementation of those measures. They investigate safety & health complaints filed by employees as well as accidents, fatalities, and catastrophic events in the workplace, and assist with training & outreach activities statewide. This position is located in the Raleigh OSHA field office. Safety Compliance Officer (SCO) position requires identifying workplace hazards (and potential hazards); recommending citations for alleged violations and making appropriate referrals; inspecting a variety of establishments; performing safety and health hazard assessments; evaluating employer's hazard abatement efforts; preparing reports, investigating fatalities, accidents and complaints as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Act. No more than a 50-mile commute to the Raleigh OSHA Field Office is required. A valid Driver's License is required.

Requirements

• The SCO with an understanding of industrial engineering concepts, must be knowledgeable and decisive inconsistently applying the OSHNC standards.
• The SCO must be a self motivated professional who has outstanding time management and databasemanagement skills and must be physically, mentally and emotionally capable of conducting independentinspections.
• The SCO must have excellent documentation and writing skills to write legally defensible reports and must beproficient in keyboarding using word processing programs, i.e. Wordperfect and Microsoft Word.
• The SCO musthave excellent verbal communication skills. Duties include speaking with complainants, employers, state and localagencies (including law enforcement) and NCDOL personnel.
• The SCO will be required to evaluate and make recommendations on unusual problems.
• Valid driver's license is required.
• Bachelor's degree preferably with a major in occupational safety, industrial management or technology, industrial engineering, industrial arts, engineering operations, or a closely-related curriculum from an appropriately accredited institution and two years of experience in occupational safety and health inspections; or Associate s degree in industrial safety and health technology, or a closely-related curriculum from an appropriately accredited institution and four years of experience in occupational safety and health inspections; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Research the employer to be inspected to become familiar with the operation(s) involved, the processes used in the operation(s), and the potential exposures and hazards associated with the operation(s)
• Communicate with the complainant(s), when appropriate
• Coordinate a simultaneous site visit with a Health Compliance Officer, when appropriate
• Calibrate and maintain all sampling equipment that might be required in making the inspection
• Obtain necessary measuring/sampling equipment (e.g. sound level meter, velometer, etc.) that might be required in making the inspection
• Conducts an opening conference with the top management official at the employer’s establishment
• Conducts the walk-around portion of the inspection, taking photos, taking measurements, and documenting findings
• Obtain the cooperation of employer management personnel and employees when conducting an inspection
• Fully and thoroughly documents all inspection activities
• Recognizing and evaluating potentially hazardous exposures and conditions in all types of workplaces
• Identify occupational safety hazards to either achieve abatement and to refer the health hazards to a Compliance District Supervisor to assign to a Health Compliance Officer to investigate
• Thorough interviews are conducted with employer representatives and employees to augment the inspection results and observations
• Conducts a closing conference with the appropriate management and employee representatives to delineate inspection results and explain their rights and responsibilities
• A written report of each inspection is submitted to the Compliance District Supervisor for review
• Recommend citations, gravity-based penalties, warranted reductions of the gravity-based penalties, violations of particular standards
• Testify at the hearing, using their inspection report
• Coordinate pre-hearing conferences with the attorney responsible for the contentment and will provide additional documentation requested by the attorney or the Compliance District Supervisor
• Actively participate in professional organizations and seek certification by The American Society of Safety Engineers
• Aids in the training of compliance officers and performs other job-related duties as assigned by the Compliance District Supervisor

Benefits

• Eligible state employees are entitled to comprehensive benefits, including a variety of leave options, professional development opportunities, insurance, and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees