Safety Technician - (496006 )

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 43,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Houston System seeks an Environmental Health & Safety assistant to support safety trainings, verify certifications, and maintain safety records across campus buildings. The role involves coordinating biosafety cabinet certifications and testing facilities and equipment to ensure compliance.

Educational requirement is a High School Diploma or GED with at least one year of related experience; routine security checks apply.

Qualifications

• Assists with safety trainings for faculty, staff and students.
• Assesses facilities, work areas and equipment including fume hood testing and safety showers/eye washes.
• Coordinates and verifies biosafety cabinet certifications.
• Populates departmental database and generates reports as needed.
• May provide support for handling, storage and disposal of hazardous materials.

Responsibilities

• Performs respiratory fit-testing.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Safety trainings

Facilities assessment

Certifications coordination

Database reporting

Hazardous materials handling

Respiratory fit-testing

Other duties

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Department: Environment Health &SafetySalary: $43,000-$48,900

Description

Assists with various safety trainings. Verifies, tests and/orcoordinates certification of safety equipment in University ofHouston buildings. Maintains detailed records of all equipmenttesting, populate departmental database, assists with variousOccupational Safety assessments, and supports other EHSdiscipline-specific areas. Pursuant to the State of Texas ExecutiveOrder No. GA-48, this position researches, works on, or has accessto critical infrastructure and requires the ability to maintain thesecurity or integrity of the University infrastructure. Thisposition requires personnel be routinely reviewed to determinewhether or not criminal history or continuous connections for thegovernment or political apparatus of a foreign adversary mightprevent the employee from being able to maintain the security orintegrity of the infrastructure.

• Assists with safety training for faculty, staff andstudents.
• Assesses facilities, work areas and equipment to include butnot limited to verifying campus fume hood functionalities andtesting safety showers and eye washes on campus.
• Coordinates and verifies biosafety cabinetcertifications.
• Populates departmental database and generates reports asneeded.
• May provide support services to handling, storage, anddisposal of hazardous materials, as needed.
• Performs respiratory fit-testing.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

High School Diploma or GED Required

MQ: Requires a basic knowledge of grammar, spelling, punctuationand simple mathematical functions like percentages, ratios, etc. asmight normally be acquired through attainment of a high schooldiploma or GED.

Requires a minimum of one (1) year of directly job-relatedexperience

All positions at the University of Houston System are securitysensitive and will require a criminal history check.

The University of Houston System and its universities are EqualOpportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.