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GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB:
Driscoll Children’s Hospital Fire Safety Specialist's primary purpose is to support the implementation and management of programs and policies designed to ensure the safety of faculty, patients and staff in planning for and responding to fires and similar emergencies on campus.

• Exercising appropriate age-specific communication skills when interacting with customers, patients, and families. 
• Exercising appropriate age-specific safety practices when interacting with customers, patients, and families.
• All equipment, supplies, tools, work materials are never to be left unattended.
• All job sites will be secured prior to being left unattended.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.

• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.  
• Assist with annual inspection of all Driscoll Children’s Hospital buildings. Work with Facilities Management, building occupants and others to resolve issues identified during the inspections. Assist with the monthly inspection of all required State of Texas and Joint Commission residence inspection and work with the Director and Facilities Manager Office of Engineering and others, as needed, to resolve safety issues.
• Assist in reviewing plans and design proposals for construction and renovation on campus. Providing technical assistance to Facility Management on fire alarm systems, sprinkler systems, egress issues and other aspects of projects relating to fire safety.
• Experience working in a Hospital setting is considered a plus. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make presentations to groups while using audio visual aids. 
• Position requires good computer skills including Word, Excel, Outlook, Pro and other programs to manage the fire safety program. 
• Must be available to respond to emergency situations after hours, on weekends and holidays. 
• Working knowledge of state fire safety codes and the NFPA standards. 
• Experience and ability to develop and perform fire safety inspections, emergency action plan and fire extinguisher training.
• Record proper time and material information on work orders.
• Read blueprints and schematics in order to install electrical conduit for security/fire alarm systems and access control systems.
• Must be able to operate Driscoll vehicle in the performance of duties.
• Responsible for quality control on all work performed
• Performed other job-related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor
• Designs, install, configure test maintain, and repair public address and cable TV systems, closed circuit (CCTV)
• Design, install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair all computer cabling, computer-cabling TV systems and electronic technical problems.
• Set up and operate temporarily and portable public address systems
• Must be willing to work evenings and morning shifts on a rotating basis
• Must be willing to work On-Call shifts on a rotating basis
• Check, repair, and maintain all audiovisual equipment and athletic departments scoreboards
• Repair and troubleshoot for electronic problems.
• All other duties as assigned by Management

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.