SAFETY PROGRAM MANAGER - SES - 43000671 Date: Feb 3, 2025 The State Personnel System is an E-Verify employer. For more information click on our E-Verify Website (http://www.dms.myflorida.com/workforce\_operations/human\_resource\_management/for\_job\_applicants/e\_verify) . Requisition No: 845911 Agency: Financial Services Working Title: SAFETY PROGRAM MANAGER - SES - 43000671 Pay Plan: SES Position Number: 43000671 Salary: $64,500.00 Posting Closing Date: 02/17/2025 Total Compensation Estimator Tool (https://compcalculator.myflorida.com/) *****OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY***** DIVISION: STATE FIRE MARSHAL BUREAU: FIRE STANDARDS AND TRAINING CITY: OCALA COUNTY: MARION Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including: + Health insurance (over 90% employer paid) + $25,000 life insurance policy (100% employer paid) + Dental, vision and supplemental insurances + State of Florida retirement package + Generous vacation and sick leave + Nine (9) paid holidays a year + One (1) Personal Holiday each year + Career advancement opportunities + Tuition waiver for public college courses + Training opportunities + Flexible work schedules + Employee Assistance Program (EAP) + Public Service Loan Forgiveness (if eligible) For a more complete list of benefits, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com SPECIAL NOTES: Bachelor Degree in Fire Science, Management, or Administration, or equivalent is required. Additional requirements: + Florida State Certificate of Compliance (Firefighter II) + Florida State Fire Instructor I, II, or III + Florida State Fire Officer I, II, III or IV + Minimum of six (6) years career fire service + Must hold a Florida State Fire Safety Officer certificationorbe willing to obtain within one (1) year. + Experience conducting fire service safety inspections. + Experience conducting fire service injury or line of duty death investigations. Preferences: + Master’s Degree in Fire Science, Management, or Administration. + Knowledge of the Florida State Administrative Code 69A-37 and Florida Statutes 633-400 + The ability to start a response to an emergency incident within two (2) hours. This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment. This position will be filled at the annual base salary of $64,500.00. Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle. Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING REQUIRED ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: + Knowledge of occupational safety and health programs and objectives. + Knowledge of the principles and practices of management and supervision. + Knowledge of the principles and techniques of effective communication + Knowledge of the methods of data collection. + Knowledge of fire safety and prevention statutes, rules, and codes. + Ability to manage a safety program, including occupational safety and health. + Ability to supervise people and determine work priorities, assign work, and ensure proper completion of work assignments. + Ability to communicate effectively. + Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others. + Ability to work independently and solve problems and make decisions. + Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures relating to a safety program or occupational safety and health standards. + Ability to formulate policies and procedures. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES: This position is responsible for the supervision of full-time and OPS personnel to include supervising workload, deadlines, work objectives, and time utilization; evaluate employees through established evaluation criteria; train in the requirements of conducting safety inspections and investigations, report writing, Florida Administrative Code and Florida Statute: methods for performing duties efficiently and communicate with employees both individually and through staff meetings. This position is responsible for development, implementation, maintenance, and supervision of state-wide safety and occupational health program, policies, procedures, practices, employer rules and standards that reduce the incidence of firefighter employee accidents, occupational diseases, fatalities compensable under Chapter 440, firefighter employee safety training programs and shall develop employer rules governing workplace safety committee. This position is required to be available for deployment or emergency response within one hour to a fire scene, natural, or manmade events where one or more firefighter’s have succumbed to significant injury and/or death, investigate the line of duty death or certain serious injury, and prepare reports to determine what suitable devices, safeguards, or other means of protection for the prevention of occupational diseases must be adopted; and adopt reasonable rules for the prevention of accidents, the safety, protection and security of firefighter employees engaged in firefighting, and the prevention of occupational disease, and may also be deployed with other local/state agencies for Firefighter investigative purposes, pursuant to F.S. 633.809 and F. S. 633.821. and 69A-62.032 F. A. C. The position shall develop and implement a means by which the division can identify individual firefighter employers with a high frequency or severity of work-related injuries to, conduct safety inspections of the facilities and emergency operations of those firefighter employers, and assist those firefighter employers in the development and implementation of firefighter employee safety and health programs. The position shall make a continuous study of firefighter employee occupational diseases and the ways and means for their control and prevention and shall develop for adoption the necessary rules for such control and prevention. If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended, or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement. The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace. Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation. The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act. Location: OCALA, FL, US, 34482 Nearest Major Market:Ocala