Description

Join the City of Palo Alto as a Utility Safety Officer and apply your expertise to advance safety across electric, water, gas, wastewater, and fiber utilities, supporting reliable service for our community.

Career Opportunity: The Utilities Safety Officer designs, implements, manages, and continually evaluates the Utilities Department's health and safety programs including utility-specific industrial safety, job-related training programs, and investigations within the Department. This position ensures compliance with applicable federal, state, and local workplace safety and environmental regulations, including timely completion of mandatory training requirements for the City's electric, fiber, water, gas and wastewater utilities staff. This position works in the office and field and requires independent judgment and knowledge of principles and practices of health and safety program administration, conducting audits, inspections, investigations and developing applicable training programs.

Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate will have a strong background in utility safety (electric, fiber, gas, water, and wastewater) and a thorough understanding of utility operations, workplace safety, and environmental regulations to ensure organizational compliance. The successful candidate will possess extensive experience interpreting and implementing OSHA requirements, developing and delivering safety training programs, and identifying training needs through worksite audits, hazard assessments, and evaluations of work practices. This individual will be an engaging and collaborative leader who fosters accountability, influences safe work behaviors, and promotes a proactive, organization-wide culture of health and safety.

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This is a continuous recruitment and may remain open until the position is filled. First review of applications will take place during the week of August 31, 2026. Subsequent reviews will be conducted every two weeks thereafter. Applicants are encouraged to apply early.

Requirements

Any combination of experience and training that would provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required knowledge and abilities would be:

A Bachelor's degree from accredited college or university with major course work in occupational health and safety, industrial hygiene or a closely related field; and, Four years of increasingly responsible experience in the development and administration of safety and training programs and experience in utilities operations; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential job functions and possession of the required knowledge and abilities.