POSITION TITLE: Site Safety Manager
FLSA Status: Exempt
Reports To: Director of Safety
Location: Clarksville, TN
Established in 1893 by the Nottberg family, U.S. Engineering takes pride that our reputation for providing high quality mechanical construction work has kept us going strong for more than 120 years. We operate with a focus on the life cycle of each building we work on and the total cost of ownership. Every member of the U.S. Engineering family is expected to understand and consistently demonstrate the following Core Values:
- Exhibit integrity in everything we do.
- Listen, identify and respond to customer needs.
- Provide quality, on schedule, at a competitive price.
- Respect, challenge and recognize each employee.
- Ensure a safe working environment.
If you share these values, we invite you to join our family to do great things with great people.
The Site Safety Manager:
- Plans, enforces, implements and supervises corporate and regional safety, health, and environmental protection programs that support our core value to “ensure a safe working environment”.
- Is responsible for the enforcement of safety standards and safety training, as well as safety monitoring compliance, and recognition programs.
Principal Duties and Accountabilities:
- Keeps current on construction industry safety standards and consistently monitors the corporate safety program to ensure best practices in safety.
- Provides leadership, administrative and technical direction on all corporate safety and health programs, procedures, and policies.
- Makes recommendations to corporate Management Committee on all safety-related issues.
- At a project-specific level, collaborates with project management to provide technical and administrative direction to on-site Field Safety Coordinators and other field personnel, including staffing and personnel administration activities.
- Develops and facilitates safety training programs, including field employee safety orientation, as well as regular safety training on a variety of topics.
- Controls hazardous working conditions and unsafe employee activities through safety management and collaboration with other operations supervisory personnel.
- Conducts proactive jobsite surveillance / inspections, and prepares reports.
- Thoroughly investigates all safety incidents and prepares the appropriate documentation, then communicates the status of incidents to management in accordance to corporate procedures.
- Works closely with the company’s Manager of Corporate Risk to minimize liability and worker’s compensation costs.
- Monitors the return-to-work process for injured employees to minimize the impact of an injured worker returning to a jobsite. Assists in identifying work an injured worker can perform.
- May participate in the procurement phase or pre-job meetings and develops site-specific safety plans that include site-specific training when required.
- Responsible for purchasing and/or approving purchases for the company’s safety supplies and personal protective equipment, as well as other safety program expenses.
- Reviews safety incident documentation to ensure all required records and reports are complete, accurate and submitted per established procedures, and implements appropriate corrective action as required.
- Accompanies all safety, health and insurance inspectors on walk through tours. Coordinates or assists in preparing written appeals for safety violation citations.
- Manages the existing drug and alcohol testing procedures at the project.
Job Scope:
- The Site Safety Manager is a critical position at any U.S. Engineering project site, and is responsible for collaborating with the Owner and the construction team to ensure safety compliance and training for the primary construction site.
- The Site Safety Manager must be present on the site whenever work is being performed by the Contractor.
- The Site Safety Manager may have additional assigned duties subject to the approval of the Owner.
Management Responsibility:
X Acts in capacity as “lead” person but does not have management responsibility for the people to whom direction is provided.
Minimum Required Education and Experience:
- In order to be considered for the position, the level of education and expected qualifications of the applicant must meet one of the three (3) criteria listed below:
- Degreed Safety Professional with twelve (12) to fifteen (15) years of construction experience.
- “Certified Safety Professional” as recognized by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals with at least two (2) years of relevant construction experience.
- Completion of the OSHA 500 Basic Instructor Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry and must have performed full-time safety responsibilities for at least ten (10) years in the relevant construction industry.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience as a site safety professional in the construction of data centers.
Physical and/or travel demands:
- Occasional travel may be required.
Employment Requirements
- The selected candidate will be required to pass a federal criminal background check.
- The selected candidate will be required to pass a drug test and submit compliance for random drug testing.
- Professional references will be checked prior to an offer of employment.
Physical and/or travel demands:
- Job is performed in a combination of settings, mostly on construction project sites.
- Routine driving to local/regional project sites required.
- Physical demands include walking on uneven surfaces, climbing ladders, bending, kneeling, lifting, etc. Position also includes sitting and standing, use of telephone, keyboard, and computer monitor.
Benefits
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Retirement
Long-Term and Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Profit Sharing
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- Flexible Spending Account (Cafeteria Plan)
- Paid time off for vacation, sick leave and holidays
- Employee Assistance Program
- Safety Recognition Program
- Competitive 401(k)
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- 529 Education Savings matching program
- Comprehensive health/dental enrollment
- Company-Wide Wellness Initiatives
- Professional training and development
- Monthly celebrations and various social gatherings
Our Vision: “Be The Best.”