Safety Director

About This Role

Directing all safety functions for the Infrastructure Market Sector service line is the core purpose of this role. This involves developing, communicating, assessing, and improving the corporate safety strategy, while maintaining effective communication with Service Line and Regional leadership teams. The Safety Director will also represent the service line to meet customer safety-related needs and act as the primary technical and leadership resource.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a safety strategy of continuous improvement to minimize risk
• Emphasize involvement in safety processes from all levels of management and craft
• Promote good safety leadership at all levels of the organization
• Set exemplary standards of ethics and stewardship of resources
• Implement an open and effective communication strategy across the service line to include incidents, lessons learned, and performance indicators
• Drive consistency where practical in the safety program across all projects
• Prepare and present monthly service line safety performance reports to include work hours, lagging indicators, observation completion/trending data, major incidents and incident trending data
• Assure that all projects have a written safety plan at their commencement
• Facilitate regulatory visits and provide support for projects during regulatory inquiries
• Evaluate project safety programs, issue recommendations, and implement changes
• Assure full utilization of donesafe and Power BI to manage incident and observation information
• Review corrective actions related to incidents and near miss events assuring they follow the SMART model
• Participate in tactical planning and support of service line, region, and Market Sector safety initiatives
• Assure all incident reports have accurate and complete root cause analysis and corrective actions and are properly closed out in donesafe
• Support project safety professionals with injury case management
• Attend project planning events to provide safety support at the earliest phase of projects
• Assure projects have qualified safety staffing
• Coordinate with peers in the Market Sector to support safety staffing availability and needs
• Implement and maintain an effective front-line supervisor safety leadership training program
• Conduct documented project inspections to identify of at-risk conditions and behaviors
• Following each site visit, conduct a documented close-out meeting with project leadership to discuss findings, necessary corrective actions, and target completion timelines
• Assure that all projects are in full compliance with corporate safety policies and applicable regulations, including documentation retention and OSHA recordkeeping