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Job Description
Position Type:
Administrative/Management
Date Posted:
6/25/2025
Location:
District Wide
Closing Date:
07/09/2025
Health, Safety, and Environmental Coordinator
52 week positions
$1,377 - $1,547 per week + Benefits
Join the Duluth Public Schools team, where we work to inspire every student to achieve their potential and prepare students to lead productive, fulfilling lives.
Summary:
Duluth Public Schools is seeking an Individual that direct plans and promotes the District's occupational safety and health programs, environmental health programs, hazardous waste programs, motor vehicle accident prevention, personal injury and prevention programs for the purpose of lowering the District's loss profile for general liability and property loss areas. Administers workers' compensation programs, injured employee case management and early return to work programs.
Minimum Qualifications:- Requires a minimum of a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Safety, Health and Environment
- Or a closely-related field with three years of experience as a coordinator of health, safety and environmental programs in a medium-to-large public or private organization; or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience necessary to meet the minimum degree requirement.
- Master of Science in Industrial Safety/Industrial Hygiene will be considered too equal to 3 years minimum experience.
- Federal and State OSHA standards, as well as the environmental and waste handling laws of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
- Minnesota statutes on above-ground and below-ground fuel storage tanks.
- Minnesota Department of Transportation regulations regarding drug testing and vehicle inspections.
- Minnesota workers' compensation laws.
- Life safety codes.
- Minnesota food codes.
- Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.
- Minnesota Department of Health statutes regarding drinking water.
- Verbal and written communications.
- Personal computer software applications, such as Excel, MS-Word, performing and or coordinating data entry for related data management and training programs.
- Accident investigating and interviewing.
- Operating a sound-level meter.
- Operating a digital camera.
- Operating an air sampling pump, including calibrating to specifications to test for exposure and contaminants.
- Operating a noise dosimeter in order to determine employee exposure to noise.
- Determine the flow rate, such as static and velocity pressure, by using a manometer.
- Measuring airflow through a hood with a velometer.
- Using a pump and indicator tubes for sampling of contaminants.
- Operating a 3-in-1 monitor to test for oxygen, carbon monoxide, or an explosive atmosphere.
- Using a sling psycho meter to determine the wetbulb or drybulb temperature.
In addition to rewarding career opportunities, Duluth Public Schools offers an excellent benefit package to employees who are hired into positions scheduled to work 24 hours/week or more. Benefits include, but are not limited to the following:
Medical/Prescription Drug Plan with Health Reimbursement Arrangement- Single Coverage - District pays 100% of premium (FREE) + contributes $2,612.50 into HRA annually
- Family Coverage - District pays 75% of premium (25% employee contribution) + contributes $5,225.00 into HRA annually
- Single Coverage - District pays 100% of Basic premium (FREE)
- Family Coverage - District pays 25% of Premium
- District provides minimum of $50,000 of life insurance at no cost, employee may purchase supplemental life insurance
- District-provided at no cost to employee
- Employees may elect to contribute on a pre-tax basis to Health Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care Accounts
- The District contributes 7.5% of your total salary in the Public Employees Retirement Association) pension plan.
- Employees may also elect to participate in Tax-Shelter Annuity options.
- Each bargaining unit contract defines time off provisions such as holidays, sick/personal leave, vacation, etc.
If you have any questions, please contact Human Resource at 218-336-8722 or email noncerthr@isd709.org
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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Duluth Public Schools
Show moreDuluth, or Onigamiising in Ojibwe, is the seat of St. Louis County, the largest city in the northern two-thirds of Minnesota, and the fourth largest city in the state. It is located on the western tip of Lake Superior and its city limits encompass 67 square miles of land and nearly 50 square miles of water. It is part of the Twin Ports metropolitan statistical area which includes all of Wisconsin's Douglas County, and Minnesota's Carlton, Lake, and Saint Louis counties which boasts a population of 291,638, ranked as the 170th largest metropolitan area in the United States.
After years of building economic diversity, Duluth is growing into a robust regional economic, medical, aviation, higher education, outdoor recreation and arts center. Duluth has long been recognized as an innovative region that is supported by a wide variety of services and industries, including the largest, farthest inland freshwater port, the Port of Duluth-Superior.
The city also boasts a vibrant arts culture, home to art museums, theater, and numerous festivals throughout the year. It is the home of two colleges and a university whose local sports teams include nationally ranked and championship teams.
Duluth Public Schools offers an excellent, competitive and comprehensive benefits program, which includes medical, prescription drug, dental, life, and disability coverage. A pension plan, tax-sheltered annuities program, flexible spending accounts (FSA), health care savings plan and employee assistance program round out the district’s robust benefits program.
The district pays a significant portion of the premium for medical hospitalization, dental and prescription coverage for employees and dependents and offers Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) funding.
The district also has generous provisions for vacation, holidays, family and medical leave and other types of paid and unpaid leave. The district recently added Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth to our list of paid holidays.
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