Safety Manager

BLHI•Nashville, TN

61d•Onsite

About The Position

The Safety Manager is responsible for managing and enforcing site safety, health, and environmental efforts for all site personnel. This role involves acting as the project's safety, health, and environmental technical advisor, establishing and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders including project teams, subcontractors, insurance risk engineers, occupational medicine clinics, and emergency response authorities. The position also requires embracing and promoting the corporate culture and values, empowering personnel, and sustaining the company's safety culture. There is potential for advancement to Regional Safety Manager.

Requirements

High School Education and/or Trade School
A minimum of 10 years of general safety experience including 5 years of applicable construction project experience.
Industry Certification/Accreditation: OSHA 30-hour for Construction course and/or USACE EM385-1-1 40-hour course
Documented Skills Training
Documented Competent Person Safety Training in applicable disciplines
Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Outlook
Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint or similar software applications used in developing training materials
Familiar with Microsoft Excel
Mastery of applicable construction safety standards
Basic understanding of building components and their installation; construction tasks, scheduling and trade sequencing.
Basic understanding of each construction trades’ scope of work.
Basic understanding of risk management principles
Ability to enforce all applicable and/or required federal, state, local and company safety, health and environmental regulations
Ability to pro-actively recognize potential hazardous situations/exposures and implement corrective measures.
Ability to conduct incident investigations to determine potential contributing factors and root causes
Good interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written) required for coordination with and support of: Executive, senior and project management; Occupational medicine clinics, physicians, staff; Insurance carriers, brokers, adjustors, risk engineers
Function as the project’s safety, health and environmental technical advisor
Establish and maintain relationship with project team, owner’s safety counterpart, and project insurance risk engineers
Establish and maintain relationship with project subcontractors and vendor’s safety counterpart
Establish and maintain relationship with project’s occupational medicine clinic, physician, and medical staff
Establish and maintain relationship with emergency response authorities having jurisdiction
Ensures positive exposure to community
Embraces BLHI Corporate Values
Demonstrates adherence to BLHI Corporate Value in daily management
Builds project climate to empower personnel and sustain BLHI safety culture
Interacts with professionalism and pro-activism
Continually seeks feedback and personal development for advancement
Trains direct reports for advancement
Seeks to understand and further the overall objectives of BLHI

Nice To Haves

Industry specific pro-board certification (STS, CHST, CSP, CRIS, etc.)
Degree in a relevant curriculum from an accredited college or university
Advanced emergency response training or experience (EMT, EMT-P, Hazmat, Technical Rescue etc.)

Responsibilities

Manage and enforce site safety, health, and environmental efforts regarding all site personnel.
Act as the project’s safety, health, and environmental technical advisor.
Establish and maintain relationships with project team, owner’s safety counterpart, and project insurance risk engineers.
Establish and maintain relationships with project subcontractors and vendor’s safety counterpart.
Establish and maintain relationships with project’s occupational medicine clinic, physician, and medical staff.
Establish and maintain relationships with emergency response authorities having jurisdiction.
Ensure positive exposure to the community.
Embrace BLHI Corporate Values and demonstrate adherence in daily management.
Build project climate to empower personnel and sustain BLHI safety culture.
Interact with professionalism and pro-activism.
Continually seek feedback and personal development for advancement.
Train direct reports for advancement.
Seek to understand and further the overall objectives of BLHI.
Conduct incident investigations to determine potential contributing factors and root causes.
Pro-actively recognize potential hazardous situations/exposures and implement corrective measures.
Enforce all applicable and/or required federal, state, local and company safety, health and environmental regulations.