Director Environmental, Health & Safety

Responsibilities

• Develops a strategic plan to move Mt. Carmel towards a world-class environmental, health, and safety program.
• Develops, manages, and implements highly effective strategies for safety programs and training utilizing Human Performance tools and industry best practices to eliminate serious injuries and at-risk behaviors.
• Develops, manages and implements environmental programs to ensure regulatory compliance and environmental stewardship.
• Responsible for being familiar with field concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Promote a strong, field-driven safety culture and ensure consistent standards are maintained across all heavy civil operations.
• Conduct field visits with Operations Leadership to promote a safer work environment, field oversight and compliance.
• Responsible for having knowledge of and staying abreast of federal and state safety laws and proactively integrating them into the company's EHS programs.
• Work jointly with Learning and Development to ensure the development and execution of Mt. Carmel-specific training to aid in the education of the safe and compliant completion of work to reduce the potential for an incident.
• Work with Operations to conduct incident investigations when warranted, determine probable cause, and make recommendations for corrective and preventative actions.
• Ensure third-party and other customer prequalification expectations are completed in a timely manner and maintained.
• Provides appropriate reporting to the executive leadership team with trending analysis and tangible programs/recommendations to effectively reduce at-risk behaviors.
• Represents the company professionally to customers and regulatory entities when required.
• Actively participate in industry trade associations, contributing expertise on behalf of the company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in safety management, environmental engineering, occupational Health and Safety or other related field.
• In lieu of the above requirements, equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• 7+ years of safety leadership experience (required).
• Experience in both shop fabrication and construction settings (preferred).
• 3+ years people management (preferred).
• CSP, ASP, CHST, OHST, CHMM or similar certification (preferred).
• OSHA 30 (required if no certification is held).