Safety Operations Program Specialist - West

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise-level safety operations and program support to the Vice President of Safety & Risk Management and Ameresco business units, coordinating priorities across the western region safety teams.
• Maintain department trackers, action-item registers, and compliance schedules for safety initiatives, program deliverables, audit findings, corrective actions, training requirements, document reviews, and reporting deadlines.
• Collaborate with Regional Safety Managers, business-unit leaders, project teams, and the counterpart Corporate Safety Operations Specialist to maintain consistent safety support, communication, and coverage across the organization.
• Provide program and administrative support for Vector Solutions EHS and LMS, including user access, organizational structure, employee and project assignments, data integrity, system workflows, and continuous improvement.
• Collate, organize, analyze, and maintain safety performance data and prepare dashboards, scorecards, trend analyses, executive summaries, presentations, and weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Maintain document control for corporate safety manuals, programs, procedures, templates, forms, Site-Specific Safety Plans, Job Hazard Analyses, Activity Hazard Analyses, emergency plans, training documents, and related safety records.
• Support business units and project teams during project startup, ongoing operations, and project closeout by helping ensure required safety documentation is complete, current, properly approved, accessible, and aligned with corporate standards.
• Track and organize incident reports, near misses, first-aid cases, recordable injuries, vehicle incidents, property damage, environmental events, investigation materials, photographs, statements, and related records.
• Coordinate corrective actions resulting from incidents, inspections, audits, client reviews, and safety findings; follow up with responsible parties and assist with lessons learned, safety alerts, and closure-status reporting.
• Coordinate safety meetings and leadership reviews; prepare agendas, meeting minutes, decisions, follow-up assignments, safety communications, reminders, department updates, and leadership summaries.
• Perform other duties as assigned, including but not limited to supporting improvements to safety workflows, reporting methods, digital workspaces, templates, systems, and standardized department processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health and safety, business administration, construction management or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in safety operations, environmental health and safety, safety program management, construction safety, compliance management, risk management, or a related operational role.