Senior Safety Manager

Clark Construction Group, LLC•McLean, VA

6d•$100,000 - $200,000

About The Position

The Senior Safety Manager ensures the safety of employees, trade partners, and the public on construction projects. The role promotes a culture of care and enforces Clark’s Safety and Health Policy, project safety programs, and applicable local, state, and federal safety standards. In partnership with project supervisors, the manager leads employee safety education and develops safe work plans for all project phases and tasks. This is an active, hands-on role spent significantly on construction sites, with some office work. The work may involve varied weather, moderate to loud noise, elevated or confined areas, moving mechanical equipment, uneven terrain, stairs, ladders, and hoists. The position requires flexibility to work extended hours during critical project phases or client deadlines and to respond to time-sensitive business needs or emergencies outside regular working hours. Clark requires a pre-employment drug fitness-for-duty screening and conducts random quarterly drug fitness-for-duty tests. The compensation package includes base salary, bonus potential, and benefits. The stated base salary range is $100,000–$200,000; compensation may vary based on factors including education, experience, skills, and geographic location.

Requirements

10 years of relevant construction safety experience with an undergraduate degree in safety and health or a related discipline, or demonstrated construction safety and trade experience.
Ability to communicate with and influence supervisors, peers, and external partners.
Ability to manage large-scale, high-profile projects.
Training and experience managing crane, fall protection, excavation, scaffold, and heavy-equipment safety.
Exposure to preconstruction efforts.
Ability to communicate effectively with, persuade, and gain buy-in from stakeholders ranging from craft workers to senior executives.
Strength in managing multiple competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
Agile, energetic, data-driven approach to achieving individual and organizational objectives while balancing short- and long-term goals.
Alignment with Clark Standards of Excellence: self-motivated, results-oriented, adaptable, a team player, accountable, ethical, innovative, resilient, relationship-building, able to build people, teams, and followership, and able to set direction and execute.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including frequent standing and navigating job sites, bending, kneeling, reaching, and frequently lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds.
Ability to communicate effectively and use visual acuity to read plans and inspect work.
Ability to work extended hours when needed and respond to communications about time-sensitive matters or emergencies outside regular working hours.
Successful completion of a pre-employment drug fitness-for-duty screening; the company also conducts random quarterly drug fitness-for-duty tests.

Nice To Haves

OSHA 30-hour training.
CHST or CSP certification.
SMS certifications.
First Aid/CPR training.

Responsibilities

Drive the Clark safety culture on a project.
Oversee and ensure the safety of employees, trade partners, and the general public.
Enforce corporate and project-specific safety and health programs, as well as federal, state, and local safety standards.
Manage and mentor staff and manage client expectations effectively.
Identify known or potential exposures and recommend corrective action.
Develop, coordinate, and implement overall project-specific safety programs.
Partner with field supervision to include safety hazard mitigation measures in the planning of construction activities.
Develop project-specific safety education for jobsite personnel, including subcontractors, based on upcoming work activities or recent at-risk trends.
Create and drive a safety vision, aligning the team to achieve a safe workplace.
Facilitate third-party safety reviews, including OSHA reviews.
Understand workers’ compensation and lead efforts in managing claims.
Use experience to proactively mitigate upcoming safety challenges.
Identify and develop relationships with industry professionals to generate and win appropriate work.
Recruit, identify, hire, and retain outstanding industry talent.
Anticipate stakeholder needs, desires, and goals and exceed their expectations.