Registered Sanitarian/Occupational Safety Specialist

About the role

This position is responsible for combining professional judgment and technical expertise to support the Occupational Safety Program Manager with identifying, analyzing and controlling hazards to ensure the health safety of students, faculty, staff and visitors on the UNT campus.

Responsibilities

• Maintains database for food facility inspection results.
• Notifies UNT food establishments of new regulations, food recalls, and other pertinent information.
• Reports all violations to appropriate personnel and assures corrective actions are completed.
• Develops, reviews, and updates University food safety policies and standard operating procedures with internal stakeholders.
• Provides oversight, consultation, and inspection of all food related temporary events and third-party vendors scheduled on campus.
• Conducts indoor air quality/mold assessments proactively and in response to employee and student concerns.
• Conducts HVAC system inspections, as needed, of campus buildings.
• Provides written documentation of indoor air quality responses.
• Conducts occupational noise monitoring, ergonomic evaluations, respirator fit testing, and other industrial hygiene assessments.
• Operates, calibrates, and maintains monitoring, sampling, and analytical equipment.
• Aids in processing Confined Space and High Work permitting for internal and external workers.
• Utilizes a variety of industrial hygiene monitoring, sampling and analytical equipment and instruments.
• Performs calibration and routine testing and ensures instruments have recommended O&M, annual manufacture calibrations, and needed repairs.
• Supports UNT’s asbestos management program through recordkeeping, project coordination, inspections, and other assigned activities within the employee’s training and qualifications.
• Supports UNT Risk Management’s overall scope of operation.
• Represents RMS on various committees / projects.
• Affords assistance and oversight to UNT’s safety program.
• Ensures compliance with policies and procedures.
• Collaborates with UNT Facilities and UNT System Facilities personnel and manages partnerships among RMS, multiple campus departments, and external agencies to enhance UNT’s industrial hygiene program.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Occupational Health, or other Health Science field and 4 years of associated experience in public health/public medicine/programs/food safety.
• Licensed Registered Sanitarian (RS) in the State of Texas within one year of hire.
• Knowledge of food safety, occupational safety, and basic industrial hygiene principles.
• Ability to interpret and apply applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to conduct inspections, investigations, exposure assessments, and corrective-action follow-up.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to analyze data, substantiate findings using spreadsheets and other analytical tools, and prepare clear reports, procedures, training materials, and recommendations.
• Working knowledge of building construction and layout and ability to read blueprints, schematic drawings, etc. and determine sites for inspection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Occupational Safety or equivalent field and 2 years’ experience in Public Health and occupational safety practices involving federal, state, city, and external entities.
• Substitution of education for experience allowed.
• Must have or obtain within six months of employment a current Texas Registered Sanitarian License.