SENIOR SAFETY SPECIALIST, CONSULTATION

State of Nevada; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vacation

Sick Leave

Holidays

Retirement (PERS)

Deferred Compensation

No Nevada state income tax

Job summary

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is hiring for a Senior Safety Specialist, Consultation in Carson City, NV. This position involves traveling statewide to design, develop, and deliver training on safety and health regulations, hazard abatement, and risk management across NDOT.

It requires managing curriculum, records, and coordinating with the Training Section to ensure effective instruction and compliance.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of applicable experience as described in the job duties.
• Graduation from high school or equivalent education.

Responsibilities

• Conduct surveys of employer sites and conduct pre-inspection reviews.
• Identify potential hazards and recognized control and abatement procedures.
• Review and evaluate written workplace safety programs for compliance and effectiveness.
• Document findings and recommendations in comprehensive reports.
• Provide informal on-site instruction on a variety of topics.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

• No Nevada state income tax.

THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Job Summary

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is hiring for a Senior Safety Specialist, Consultation in Carson City, NV. This position requires statewide travel to perform training. The primary duty for this position is to design, develop, and deliver a broad range of safety and health training across NDOT, ensuring employees at all levels receive effective instruction on regulations, hazard abatement, risk management, and safe work practices. This includes conducting training at worksites and centralized locations, maintaining curriculum and lesson plans, and ensuring training records, reports, sign in sheets, and compliance documentation are accurately managed within statewide systems such as SharePoint and the LMS (Neogov). The position serves as a liaison with the NDOT Training Section, participates in safety committees, and supports internal staff through clear communication, meeting documentation, and responsive coordination. Manages and safely transports audiovisual equipment, establishes appropriate training environments, and maintains statewide databases related to safety programs such as respiratory protection. The position regularly collaborates with project teams, provides updates, resolves issues, and ensures timely responses to email and phone communication. Additional Note: The Job Duties section listed in this announcement reflects the Statewide Class Specifications for all positions and does not fully correlate with the specific duties of this position. Safety Specialists, Consultation promote and consult on recognized safety practices for a single State agency, a regulatory program directed toward external entities, or in the State’s Risk Management Division.

Essential Qualifications

Three or more years of applicable experience as described in the job duties and graduation from high school or equivalent education.

Job Duties

• Conduct surveys of employer sites at the employer’s request and conduct pre-inspection reviews.
• Identify potential hazards and recognized control and abatement procedures.
• Meet with employes to discuss visit’s purpose, rights and responsibilities, and other pertinent information.
• Review and evaluate written workplace safety programs for compliance, specificity, comprehensiveness, and implementation effectiveness.
• Evaluate and analyze overall working and environmental conditions and work processes for compliance.
• Sample common health hazards when identified hazards are imminently dangerous and take necessary steps to ensure employees are removed from danger.
• Discuss the adequacy of workplace safety programs, identified hazards, standards not met, the feasibility of engineering controls and abatement alternatives, and issue non-penalty citations as appropriate.
• Influence employers to take preventive or corrective actions and assign abatement periods in which serious regulatory violations must be corrected.
• Make recommendations to enhance safety management systems.
• Communicate with employers to promote change in management philosophy, organizational culture, work processes, and other areas.
• Document findings and recommendations in comprehensive reports.
• Provide informal on-site instruction on a variety of topics.
• Conduct activities for a regulatory program directed toward external entities.
• Analyze management and workplace safety systems to identify the system breakdown which allowed a hazard to occur.
• Conduct surveys or compliance inspections involving multiple disciplines and state-of-the-art processes.
• Act as a team leader by assigning and reviewing work, training, and providing input to performance evaluations and discipline.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

This job specification lists the major knowledge, skills and abilities of the job and is not all inclusive. Incumbent(s) will be expected to have knowledge, Ability To skills and abilities from a previous level.

• Perform comprehensive surveys or compliance inspections in all industry classifications; originate feasible means of abatement in unique situations.
• Motivate employers to take proactive steps to achieve workplace safety; deliver presentations to defend findings and recommendations; understand and communicate the rationale behind a wide variety of safety and health standards; analyze management and workplace safety systems to identify the system breakdown which allowed a hazard to occur.
• Review work products for quality, quantity, and timeliness; analyze information, problems, situations, practices, or procedures to define objectives, identify relevant concerns, formulate logical conclusions, and recognize alternatives and their implications.

Recruiter Contact Information

Clark Mandichak - [e-mail]

The State of Nevada is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building diverse, inclusive, and innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, domestic partnership, genetic information (GINA), or compensation and/or wages.

Please send direct Inquiries or correspondence to the recruiter listed on this announcement.

Benefits Include

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees’ Benefits Program (PEBP).
• Vacation: Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year.
• Sick Leave: Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year.
• Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year.
• Retirement: Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). Employees do not contribute to Social Security but will contribute to PERS if their position is at 50% or more full-time equivalency. For more information on how PERS service may impact Social Security benefits, visit the SSA publication.
• Deferred Compensation: The State offers a voluntary Deferred Compensation Program.
• No Nevada state income tax.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Eligible due to public sector employment.
• Longevity Payments Eligibility: Employees who have received a performance rating of “standard” or better and have completed eight (8) or more years of continuous service are eligible for longevity pay.

Additional benefits

Additional benefits may apply to employees covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), depending on their designated bargaining unit. For more information, visit the Labor Relations Unit (LRU).

The Following Are Legal Holidays

• January 1.............................................. New Year's Day
• Third Monday in January.................. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
• Third Monday in February................ Washington’s Birthday
• Last Monday in May........................... Memorial Day
• June 19................................................ Juneteenth Day
• July 4.................................................... Independence Day
• First Monday in September.............. Labor Day
• Last Friday in October....................... Nevada Day
• November 11........................................ Veterans' Day
• Fourth Thursday in November........ Thanksgiving Day
• Friday following the Fourth Thursday in November...................... Family Day
• December 25........................................ Christmas Day

When January 1, June 19, July 4, November 11, or December 25 falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the observed legal holiday. If these days fall on Sunday, the following Monday is the observed holiday. Eligibility for holiday pay is covered by the provisions of NAC 284.255

01

Do you have three or more years of applicable experience as described in the job duties and graduation from high school or equivalent education?

• Yes
• No

02

Please describe, including number of years, your experience setting up and safely operating audiovisual or training equipment. Include the types of equipment you have used and any troubleshooting you have performed.

03

Please describe, including the number of years, any experience you have developing and delivering training.

• Required Question