HSSE Manager

Summary:

The HSSE Manager leads Health, Safety, Security& Environmental (HSSE) performance for a large, multi-building construction program. This position establishes and administers the site-specific safety program, provides visible field leadership, identifies and controls hazards, verifies regulatory and project compliance, and promotes a proactive zero-incident culture across contractor and subcontractor personnel.

The ideal candidate brings extensive construction safety experience, strong knowledge of OSHA requirements, and the ability to influence safety performance through hands-on field engagement, coaching, hazard recognition, and accountability.

Job Duties:

• Implement the project HSSE plan and ensure compliance with OSHA requirements, Client and contractor rules, site-specific requirements, and established procedures.
• Provide visible field leadership and reinforce a proactive, zero-incident safety culture across the project.
• Monitor HSSE performance and recommend procedural or resource changes when risk levels increase.
• Coach managers, superintendents, foremen, employees, and subcontractors to integrate safety into project planning, purchasing, logistics, and daily decision-making.

Hazard Identification & Field Safety:

• Lead hazard identification activities, Activity Hazard Analyses (AHAs), STAs/JSAs, pre-task planning, inspections, audits, leading-indicator reviews, and corrective-action tracking.
• Provide field oversight for elevated work, fall protection, lifting and rigging, hot work, mobile equipment, scaffolds and aerial lifts, electrical exposures, concurrent operations, and controlled-access areas.
• Identify unsafe conditions or behaviors and ensure hazards are corrected in a timely and effective manner.
• Support safe execution of high-hazard and concurrent construction activities.

Training & Documentation:

• Verify required employee and contractor training, site orientations, operator qualifications, competent-person assignments, permits, and safety documentation before work begins.
• Maintain appropriate HSSE documentation and support compliance with project and regulatory record-keeping requirements.
• Monitor training compliance, inspection closure, hazard correction, and participation in leading-indicator activities.

Incident Investigation & Emergency Preparedness:

• Investigate incidents, near misses, and high-potential events to identify root causes.
• Ensure effective corrective and preventive actions are developed, implemented, and tracked to completion.
• Coordinate emergency response planning, first-aid readiness, rescue planning, severe-weather response, environmental controls, and site security requirements.
• Maintain a strong focus on serious-incident prevention.

Performance Monitoring:

• Track HSSE leading and lagging indicators and communicate trends to project leadership.
• Monitor key performance indicators, including recordable and near-miss trends, safety observations, inspection closure, training compliance, hazard correction, leading-indicator participation, serious-incident prevention, and audit performance.
• Use HSSE performance data and field observations to identify emerging risks and recommend appropriate corrective measures.

Job Requirements:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, construction, engineering, environmental science, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• Minimum of 8 years of construction safety experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a site safety leadership role supporting complex industrial or commercial construction projects.
• Working knowledge of OSHA 29 CFR 1926 requirements.
• Demonstrated knowledge of incident investigation, JHA/AHA processes, fall protection, lifting and rigging, mobile equipment safety, and multi-employer worksite coordination.
• Strong hazard-recognition and field-safety leadership capabilities.
• Ability to coach and influence managers, superintendents, foremen, employees, and subcontractors.
• Strong documentation, communication, follow-through, and accountability skills.
• Experience providing visible field leadership within high-hazard, concurrent construction operations is highly desirable.
• CSP, CHST, ASP, or equivalent safety certification preferred.
• OSHA 500/510 certification highly desirable.
• First Aid/CPR certification highly desirable.
• Relevant competent-person qualifications highly desirable.
• Ability to comply with all site access, PPE, safety, security, and training requirements.
• Ability to support extended hours, early starts, weekends, or schedule-recovery coverage based on project phase and Client requirements.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

About Teal Energi

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.