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Hiring Agency:

Correctional Services - Agency 46

Location:

Lincoln, NE

Hiring Rate:

$21.836

Job Posting:

JR2025-00019725 Safety Specialist – Nebraska State Penitentiary (Open)

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Job Description:

Join the team at the Nebraska State Penitentiary as our new Safety Specialist. We're looking for an experienced professional to be the driving force behind our commitment to a safe and secure workplace. You will have the opportunity to make an immediate and lasting impact, ensuring compliance, preventing incidents, and fostering a culture of safety for everyone within our facility.

Information about the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) can be found at: www.corrections.nebraska.gov. For Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodations, please contact Megan Jones at megan.jones@nebraska.gov.

Additional $3/hour facility differential for hours worked.

 

DUTIES:

• Enforce State safety laws, rules, regulations, accident prevention, and recommend corrective courses of action for compliance with safety laws, rules, and regulations
• Inspect all buildings to ensure compliance with OSHA, NFPA, NEC, AVA, USDA, FDA, DHS, and Nebraska Fire Codes.
• Understand fire codes, prevention methods, mechanical, electrical, and chemical safety.
• Establish a program of weekly fire, safety, and health inspections of all areas of the facility by designated and qualified team members.
• Develop and maintain a system to ensure written documentation of deficiencies/discrepancies noted on weekly inspections, monthly inspections, safety/health inspections, safety training, evacuation training and fire drills conducted in their facility.
• Establish procedures to ensure notification and involvement of the facility safety specialist and appropriate supervisory team member in the investigation and reporting of all incidents of work-related injury accidents and illnesses.
• Establish a safety committee with an equal number of representatives in management and bargaining unit team members.
• Analyze data and recommend corrective action within the facilities related to safety.

 

Requirements / Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: Associates degree or equivalent vocational education in construction, industrial engineering, HVAC, welding, or other building trade. Experience in building maintenance, a mechanical trade, or performing safety inspections, investigations or training may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis as determined appropriate by the agency.

Preferred Qualifications: Any safety certifications, OSHA training, electrical training, hazardous communication, fire safety training.

Other: Must have valid driver's license. Applicant must pass a criminal background check. Applicants accepting the job offer must pass the following pre-employment exams in this order: medical exam, and at a randomly announced time, pass a drug test. Once at the Staff Training Academy, must successfully complete the fully paid NE Corrections Training Program.

 

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive package of pay, benefits, paid time off, retirement and professional development opportunities to help you get the most out of your career and life. Your paycheck is just part of your total compensation.

Check out all that the State of Nebraska has to offer! Benefit eligibility may vary by position, agency and employment status. For more information on benefits, please visit: https://statejobs.nebraska.gov/index.html#benefits

Equal Opportunity Statement

The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex. age, national origin, disability, marital status or genetics.

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