About this role
Safety Managers are responsible for:
- Inspects and evaluates the work environment, processes, to ensure compliance with OSHA regulations and standards.
- Their chief goal is to protect the employees, customers, and the environment.
- Recommends changes to protect and educate workers on how to prevent health problems through the use of safety training programs.
- Reviews and investigates accidents reports to identify root causes and find ways to prevent them in the future.
- Conducts project inspections, determining unsafe conditions, conducts weekly safety meetings at customer sites.
- Ability to detect and solve problems effectively.
- Builds a working relationship with General Contractors to ensure all safety measures are working properly.
- Maintains day-to-day oversight of safety programs and compliance.
- Ensures federal, state, and local standards and regulations are observed.
- Reviews new standards, rules, and regulations to determine relevancy to the company's operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in occupational safety and health or similar discipline, or five (5) years of equivalent training and experience that provides a comprehensive understanding of occupational safety and health principles and practices may be substituted for a degree
- 5+ years of experience working in EH&S.
- Solid understanding of OSHA, DOT and Worker's Compensation regulations
- Ability to provide leadership and education at all levels
- Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously in safety environment and be an active resource for assigned team
- Strong influencer and communicator
- Strong ability to work in changing environment, see through complexity
- Ability to be effective in a highly matrixed environment, to effectively communicate with and influence all levels of the organization and drive change
- Demonstrated successful experience in working in a demanding, high performance work environment and team oriented culture
- Must be able to think and act strategically, but also be willing to “roll up sleeves” for all safety functions