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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Onsite
Pay Range: $65,563 - $85,232 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Friday, October 23, 2026 📅
Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆
The Fort Worth Water Safety Section is seeking a Safety Specialist / Occupational Health & Safety professional to help protect a workforce of more than 1,000 employees operating in water and wastewater treatment plants, construction environments, laboratories, and field operations across the utility. This high-visibility Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) role partners with frontline employees, supervisors, and leadership to strengthen a proactive safety culture, reduce workplace injuries, and ensure compliance with OSHA and other safety regulations.
The Safety Specialist serves as the subject matter expert for workplace safety, conducting hazard assessments, incident and near-miss investigations, safety training, and safety program development. This role also analyzes injury and safety performance data, develops procedures and work instructions, and collaborates across divisions to improve safety practices. The ideal candidate brings experience in construction safety, utility operations, or environmental health and safety, strong communication and relationship-building skills, and the ability to work independently while reinforcing safety standards that protect the employees who maintain Fort Worth’s essential drinking water and wastewater infrastructure.
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Working Conditions and Physical Demand:
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing and balancing.
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.