Site Safety Health Officer

About the role

This position is responsible for developing, maintaining, and managing the safety and loss prevention program for construction site projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist in controlling hazardous working conditions and unsafe employee activities
• Supervise and coordinate project emergency action procedures, including work assignments, personnel administration, staffing, and training for emergency contingency plans
• Develop and administer job site safety and environmental training
• Complete daily project safety audits, as well as property damage and personal injury investigations
• Provide oversight to ensure that the project site conforms to all applicable safety regulations
• Document all accidents, safety violations, and unsafe conditions
• Provide problem resolution for sites that are in violation of safety standards
• Support OSHA compliance officers, corporate safety officers, and insurance inspectors during on-site audits
• Monitor contractor compliance with OSHA and Ross Group safety requirements
• Maintain all safety documents for the project site
• Facilitate necessary safety meetings
• Submit unplanned event forms to Human Resources if a work-related injury occurs
• Assist in preparing written appeals for safety violation citations
• Perform additional assignments per supervisor's direction
• Manage staff through ensuring appropriate staffing, provide formal and informal evaluations/feedback, addressing employee issues when warranted and providing appropriate training and mentoring

Qualifications

• Experience in safety management on construction job sites
• Bachelor's degree in Safety Management, Occupational Safety and Health, or a related field
• Proven successful project history of maintaining quality and safety
• Ability to excel at managing rapidly changing priorities to accomplish project goals
• Effectively manage field staff by appropriately staffing projects, providing formal and informal evaluations/feedback, addressing employee issues, and providing appropriate training and mentoring
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact with all levels of employees, Ross Group management, and outside partners such as owners, architects, engineers, subcontractors, and suppliers
• Willing and able to travel to Ross Group project sites, typically located throughout the South and Midwest
• Flexible work hours, with an average of 50 hours per week or as needed

Expectations

• Identifying problems, gathering and analyzing information, and consulting with associated staff to make your project successful
• Meeting established goals, while ensuring quality of work through accuracy and thoroughness
• Being flexible, well organized, and detail oriented, using efficient time management skills to meet project deadlines and schedules
• Making timely decisions using sound and accurate judgment while keeping appropriate people informed in the decision process
• Working knowledge of computers, Microsoft Office, and the internet
• Working to increase your job knowledge, exhibiting the ability to learn and apply new skills

Physical requirements

• Work outdoors in extreme conditions such as cold, heat, and humidity on a regular, daily basis
• Stand, climb, bend, and stoop on a regular, daily basis
• Use visual and auditory skills

Status: Exempt • Reports to: Project Manager • Secondarily Reports to: Vice-President of Operations