Field Safety Engineer

Clark Pacific • West Sacramento, CA

20d • Onsite

About The Position

The Field Safety Engineer is responsible for implementing CP’s EHS safety policies and procedures in concert with the EHS Manager. This is an autonomous role providing project teams leading indicator observations including the acknowledgement of favorable behaviors and identifying specific hazards on project sites, developing strategies to minimize risk, and communicating specific strategies with the project teams and subcontractors. This role is responsible for facilitating continuous improvement in the Company’s safety culture, performance, policies, and practices. This includes ensuring the Company is using best practices, bringing innovation to processes, work, and systems, and incorporating new ideas from other industries into the Company’s approach.

Requirements

• Passionate about Clark Pacific’s vision and mission; able to promote, demonstrate, and communicate the mission, values, and core competencies of Clark Pacific to others.
• Ability to build strong relationships and engage and motivate teams representing diverse backgrounds and viewpoints; exceptionally collaborative.
• Exceptional communications skills, both written and verbal, as well as effective listening and engagement with all levels of the organization
• Excellent organization skills to drive topics with multiple stakeholders/interests.
• Problem solving skills that aim to remedy and prevent recurrence.
• Comfortable escalating issues while maintaining positive relationships with team members and other organizations.
• Able to exercise appropriate discretion when handling confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Associate degree with 1—5 years’ experience (preferred).
• 1-5 years’ experience with Safety and Compliance in a commercial construction and/or manufacturing environment.
• Ability to stand, walk, and climb throughout work shift.
• Ability to travel (fly and drive) from job site to job site. (daily local travel, potential monthly overnight travel).
• Anticipate as much as 80% travel requirement for the role.
• Conduct onsite facility observations/inspections specific to applicable regulatory agency compliance, insurance compliance and CP company policies and procedures.

Nice To Haves

• OSHA 10 & 30 certified (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Assisting the EHS Manager -Construction in the development of and clearly articulating and implementing the Company’s safety vision, philosophy, objectives, strategies, policies, and procedures to build a safety culture dedicated to behaviors which lead to industry leading results.
• Initiate Observations and analyzing jobsites and project plans to help anticipate problems & provide solutions.
• Initiate and lead in the documentation and support the development of the SSSP and other key project programs.
• Assist and lead the coordination and perform the training to all levels of management, field staff, preconstruction, and project teams as necessary.
• Interacting with internal self-perform stakeholders, clients, subcontractors, and inspectors as a team player to build a strong safety culture.
• Constantly engaging with CP’s field workers and project teams including subcontractors, to build an interactive relationship.
• Advising, educating, consulting, recommending, and proposing safety solutions to the superintendent and project manager.
• Proactively planning and executing the safety solutions with the strategies based on leading indicators.
• Effectively providing safety performance evaluation based on analytical data sourced from both leading and lagging indicators
• Effectively integrating field safety in many approaches – Risk based critical thinking, behavioral safety, cultural safety, circumstantial/situational safety, compliance perspective, etc.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions and conclusions, and monitors results to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Leads project site incident investigations.
• Managing hazard assessment activities by conducting and/or supervising safety inspections and analyzing inspection and incident data to identify opportunities to develop preventive and corrective practices.
• Inspecting active project sites to evaluate ongoing work conditions to support employee safety and guarantee compliance.
• Lead in assuring Leading and Lagging KPIs are maintained current.
• Lead in actively managing workload and completion of assignments on time.
• Lead in actively tracking project corrective action items to an appropriate and on time completion.
• Engage directly with project leadership as well as company management as necessary.
• Work independently with frequent reporting and metrics to direct manager and/or company leadership.
• Provide leadership in implementation in a coaching engagement style vs. directive-based engagement.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, being paid on a weekly basis.
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance with the options of using Kaiser and VSP for vision!
• Medical FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• Employer paid life insurance paid by Clark Pacific
• Voluntary Ancillary Benefits such as Critical Illness, Accident Insurance and Whole life insurance.
• 401k matching 100% of the first 3%, then 50% of the next 2%
• Membership to our local gym

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree