About This Role
The Safety Director will lead and manage all safety initiatives and loss control programs for Brent Scarbrough & Company, aiming to build a top-tier safety and risk management culture. This role ensures the company's safety program complies with OSHA and other construction industry standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of and clearly articulate the company’s safety vision, objectives, strategies, policies, and procedures to build a safety culture dedicated to best practices
- Provide proactive leadership and assume ownership of building an elite safety culture by anticipating problems, providing solutions, sharing knowledge with and providing training to all levels of management, field staff, preconstruction, and project teams, interacting with clients, subcontractors, and inspectors, and creating an environment of learning, mentoring, and empowerment to promote employee engagement
- Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions and conclusions, and monitor results to make improvements or take corrective action
- Ensure safety and health training meet the needs of internal and external (client and regulating entities) requirements, so staff has the safety training to safely perform tasks and jobs
- Lead incident investigations
- Manage 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
- Develop annual plans and budgets for safety and health initiatives, including training
- Lead and manage human assets to develop a high performance, customer-oriented Safety team, through hiring, motivating, coaching, appraising, rewarding and disciplining, and addressing complaints and resolving issues related to staff
- Manage GL, Auto and Workers Compensation claims
- Manage return to work/modified duty work programs
- Lead and direct Safety Committee and meetings
- Maintain a professional appearance and demeanor
- Demonstrate a positive attitude
- Communicate effectively with co-workers and clients
- Work with accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail
- Maintain good attendance by working when and where directed
- Work safely in compliance with all safety policies
- Respect the work environment and keep it as neat and clean as possible
- Exercise initiative to learn new skills and tasks and to help co-workers when possible
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental health and safety, safety management, construction or related field
- Minimum 10 years' experience in heavy civil construction safety management
