Careers

Description:

The Safety Professional plays a key role in coordinating the Safety and Loss Control Program and ensuring compliance with all state, federal, and client requirements on projects. This position is responsible for conducting new-hire orientations, proactively communicating safety and loss control policies and procedures, providing information for weekly safety meetings, being accessible to answer safety-related questions or concerns, and providing additional training to workers, such as respirator training, forklift operation, and fall protection. The ideal candidate has a strong background in safety management, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to fostering a safe and compliant work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct new-hire orientations.
• Proactively communicate safety and loss control policies and procedures.
• Coordinate/monitor substance abuse program.
• Provide information for weekly safety meetings.
• Continual hazard assessment.
• Basic first-aid response.
• Caring for injured workers, including transportation to and from appointments, maintaining direct communication with medical providers, and monitoring modified duty job placement.
• Accident/incident investigations, reporting and recordkeeping.
• Being accessible to answer any safety-related questions or concerns.
• Providing additional training to workers i.e. respirator training, forklift operation, fall protection.

Relationships:

• Maintain proactive and positive relationships within the crafts, including shop and field craft personnel.
• Foster positive relationships with customer representatives, vendors, suppliers, subcontractors, safety, CAD/BIM, accounting, IT, and all project teams.

Skills/Eligibility:

Experience / Qualifications:

• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in the safety field.
• Preferred: Experience in a lead safety role.
• Associate degree or related experience.
• Proficiency in MS Office tools including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Certified as a Competent Person for scaffolding, fall protection, and excavations.
• First Aid/CPR Certified.
• Completion of OSHA 10- and 30-hour training courses.
• Valid driver’s license 

Necessary Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to work in hot climates and climb stairs and ladders daily.
• Ability to apply knowledge of regulations to field construction environment.
• Thorough understanding of state and federal regulations as they apply to job site safety.
• A valid driver’s license and clean driving record are required.