Environmental Compliance and Safety Manager

About the position

The position involves overseeing safety and environmental responsibilities within Shea Homes Active Lifestyle Communities (SHALC). The role requires ensuring employee safety is prioritized in all business decisions, maintaining regulatory compliance, and fostering a safety culture among employees. The individual will also be responsible for environmental compliance, including monitoring projects for adherence to environmental regulations and conducting assessments for new projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure employee safety remains in the forefront of all capital purchases and or business decisions.
• Regulatory compliance across all aspects of Shea Homes Active Lifestyle Communities.
• Motivate employees to embrace Shea safety culture and program.
• Empower teams and provide guidance to team so they can effectively execute safety program at the site level.
• Audit projects to ensure teams are aligned with safety vision and requirements.
• Create, maintain and implement a comprehensive safety training plan.
• Conduct regular checks on required employee safety training and assist in finding resources when external trainings are needed.
• Assuring compliance with required OSHA record keeping requirements, verifying and expediting OSHA citation abatements.
• Provide for visible involvement in the safety program through participation in committees and safety-related activities.
• Conduct hazard assessment to determine the potential for injury and illness to employees.
• Provide the leadership, technical knowledge, managerial and administrative skills required for the direction, leadership, and training of all SHALC personnel with respect to Safety.
• Act as final authority on any disputed safety requirements, OSHA requirements (Mediation between safety and construction).
• Maintain and update SHALC safety manual documents.
• Analyze all injury reports for all Trades to identify areas needing improvement.
• Energize or reinforce Trades' safety program as appropriate, based on daily observations.
• Submit monthly loss control performance reports to SHALC Vice President of Operations and SHALC President.
• Represent SHALC on interdivisional safety council.
• Assumes Division Compliance Officer (DCO) role, and responsibilities, as defined in Shea's Environmental Compliance Manual (ECM) for the entire SHALC division.
• Performs / Reports Quarterly Site Inspection Reports (D-SIR), under the direction of the Director, for all SHALC Land Development and Operations teams.
• Conduct an initial environmental assessment for all new projects.
• Assist in initial design of site specific SWPPP's (narrative and exhibits) to ensure compliance with Environmental Permits and Shea's ECM.
• Standardizes SWPPP Best Management Practices to the extent practical.
• Monitor projects for changes that will affect existing permits and or environmental compliance.
• Monitor environmental rulemaking that impacts SHALC.
• Adjust existing program when new rulemaking occurs.
• Assist teams in identifying training needs (employee and trades) and be their first stop for training resources.
• Represent SHALC on interdivisional SWPPP team(s) / initiatives.
• Provide for visible involvement in the SWPPP program through participation in committees and SWPPP-related activities.
• Provide the leadership, technical knowledge, managerial and administrative skills required for the direction, leadership, and training of all SHALC personnel with respect to SWPPPs.
• Contributes toward continuous SWPPP Improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of program management.
• Proficiency in MS suite of applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams).
• Applicant must provide certifications, credentials and or work experience establishing they are knowledgeable in StormWater Management, Dust Control, Best Management Practices and Permitting.
• Applicant must provide certifications, credentials and or work experience establishing they are knowledgeable in Construction Safety and OSHA rules.

Nice-to-haves

• Additional safety or StormWater certifications a plus.
• Proficiency in Adobe Acrobat a plus.