Safety Director
About the role
Mckee Utility Contractors is now hiring a Safety Director for the Infrastructure Market Sector service line. The Safety Director is responsible for all safety functions necessary to support this service line, including developing and implementing a safety strategy.
Responsibilities
Develop and implement a safety strategy of continuous improvement to minimize risk.
Emphasize involvement in safety processes from all levels of management and craft.
Promote good safety leadership at all levels of the organization.
Set exemplary standards of ethics and stewardship of resources.
Implement an open and effective communication strategy across the service line to include incidents, lessons learned, and performance indicators.
Drive consistency where practical in the safety program across all projects.
Prepare and present monthly service line safety performance reports to include work hours, lagging indicators, observation completion/trending data, major incidents and incident trending data.
Assure that all projects have a written safety plan at their commencement.
Facilitate regulatory visits and provide support for projects during regulatory inquiries.
Evaluate project safety programs, issue recommendations, and implement changes.
Assure full utilization of donesafe and Power BI to manage incident and observation information.
Review corrective actions related to incidents and near miss events assuring they follow the SMART model.
Participate in tactical planning and support of service line, region, and Market Sector safety initiatives.
Assure all incident reports have accurate and complete root cause analysis and corrective actions and are properly closed out in donesafe.
Support project safety professionals with injury case management.
Attend project planning events to provide safety support at the earliest phase of projects.
Assure projects have qualified safety staffing.
Cookordinate with peers in the Market Sector to support safety staffing availability and needs.
Implement and maintain an effective front-line supervisor safety leadership training program.
Conduct documented project inspections to identify at-risk conditions and behaviors.
Following each site visit, conduct a documented close-out meeting with project leadership to discuss findings, necessary corrective actions, and target completion timelines.
Assure that all projects are in full compliance with corporate safety policies and applicable regulations, including documentation retention and OSHA recordkeeping keeping.
Perform and communicate regular (at least monthly) leading indicators assessments to proactively identify trends and recommend corrective action before a loss occurs.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in safety, or safety-related field from accredited university (Preferred)
Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience (Required)
Minimum of 20 years of construction safety experience if no degree
OSHA 500 certification (Required)
Certified Safety Professional, CSP (Preferred)
Skills and Abilities
Read, analyze and interpret periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations for application in the Service Line.
Develop reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
Excellent computer skills
Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables.
Working knowledge of government regulations, safety compliance and industrial Hygiene
Strong business acumen
Strong analytical skills
Strategic thinking abilities
Strong understanding of organizational behavior
Ability to influence where direct reporting lines do not exist
Team player and self-starter
Interpersonal skills a must
Benefits
Competitive pay with ongoing performance review and merit increase
401(k) with company match
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans available
Pay
Competitive pay with ongoing performance review and merit increase
Schedule
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