Project Safety Director

Responsibilities

• Instill safety in employees through example and personal contact.
• Display strong leadership, teamwork and ability to work with and through others at all levels of project leadership.
• Facilitate, monitor, and assess the effectiveness of the implementation of Brasfield & Gorrie’s Safety Health & Environmental System (SHEMS) on their respective project.
• Identify safety and health training needs, assists in program development, coordinate, monitor, and deliver training as needed at a project level.
• Monitor the safety process for their project and offer ongoing recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Partner with Brasfield & Gorrie employees and subcontractors to reduce injuries and foster a Zero Injury culture.
• Responsible for calling a stop work on the project if life threatening conditions or hazards exist.
• Assist in the development and acceptance of job hazard analysis (JHA), Site Safety work Plans, Public Hazard Analysis, and Environmental Management Plans.
• Engages in Site safety inspections, coordinating corrections with all contractors.
• Reviews and oversees procedures for the investigation of construction related incidents and accidents.
• Develop and implement Contractor Orientation procedures for a multi-lingual work site.
• Management level loss control reviews for all Workers Compensation and GL Claims and Safety Inspections Statistical information to develop and present technical reports for their project.
• Provide general safety oversight and performance of both administrative and field safety management responsibilities.

Management

• Communicates and reinforces the Company vision, values and goals.
• Provide oversight of the training plans for their project.
• Provide oversight to ensure subcontractor’s safety documents, including insurance certificates, are approved and available onsite before the subcontractor starts work.
• Provide oversight of the process ensuring that Brasfield & Gorrie policies and procedures pertaining to incident reporting and claims management are adhered to and assist as needed.
• Provide oversight of injury investigation and all serious near miss incidents to B&G employees occurring on their project.
• Provide oversight in assisting project team with OSHA regulations compliance.
• Mentor and assist with professional development of the Safety Department staff on the project.

Education – Skills – Knowledge – Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor degree in a Safety related discipline or a minimum 10+ years of construction safety management experience
• Safety management experience on power or large industrial projects ($300 million or higher) strongly preferred
• OSHA 500 Authorized Instructor
• Technical awareness in environmental management which includes storm water pollution prevention planning and administration
• CHST, ASP, or CSP