Safety Manager - New York, Ny

We are seeking a Safety Manager to work based at our client site in New York, NY! The Safety Manager is responsible for working with leadership, team members and suppliers to ensure a safe and healthy working environment. The Safety Manager will work directly with our client to ensure that the safety program is compliant with all applicable regulatory laws and best practices, implemented in an organized and efficient manner, and protective of the employees’ health and safety. The incumbent will maintain a constructive relationship with construction and service operations, while ensuring program compliance through comprehensive audits and tracking. This person will also manage the utilization of safety program software.

Essential Functions: 

• Conduct organized and professional administration of a comprehensive safety program.
• Ensure compliance with applicable law and safety requirements for worksite conditions, processes, training, inspections, and auditing.
• Ensure that installation, operation, maintenance operations and support departments receive excellent service in safety program administration, guidance, and support.
• Ensure that the company maintains effective and independent administration of compliance and tracking of training, inspections, and audits through our cloud-based system.
• Identify and eliminate injury possibilities.
• Perform routine site safety audits and inspections.
• Report on safety status, findings, and progress.
• Conduct training sessions for company corporate and technical employees.
• Audit and evaluate safety of construction, service, and warehouse locations of the project.
• Develop reports with action items and follow up to ensure completion of action items.
• Analyze accident/incident trends and develop/implement recommendations to improve safety behaviors and safety record.
• Write policies and procedures in organized, clear, compliant, and professional manner.
• Represent the company and provide expert guidance through inspections by regulatory agencies and insurance companies.
• Respond quickly to reports of safety incidents, manage investigations, and remedial actions.
• Ensure that the Health and Safety Plan is accurate, effective, and compliant.
• Manage the responsibility for establishment and maintenance of effective communication and coordination with company personnel and all levels of Management.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with the peers, management, and site personnel.
• Prepare, maintain, and submit site-specific safety documentation.

Needed Skills:

• Ability to accurately perceive safety issues using senses, including Detect, Determine, Perceive, Identify, Recognize, Judge, Observe, Inspect, Estimate, and Assess.
• Detailed knowledge of construction and industrial safety requirements.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to manage tracking of safety compliance and training across multiple provinces.
• High levels of independence and assertiveness, and high ethical standards.
• Ability to effectively explain and integrate safety requirements with operational efficiencies.

Education/Experience Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety/Health.
• Minimum 3 years of safety experience.
• Experience managing construction safety programs.
• Experience providing expert guidance through regulatory inspections and subsequent actions
• Minimum OSHA 510/511 Certification, CHST preferred.
• Operations are in secured areas of airports. Ability to pass background checks to the extent required by airport authorities is required.

Preferred experience:

• Airport terminal buildings, airport terminal facilities and systems at a medium and/or large air carrier airport.
• Experience with Automated Material Handling Systems.
• Specialized experience in energy protection procedures and energized work.
• Experience with industrial maintenance or manufacturing, especially with material conveying systems.
• Experience managing construction safety programs.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: ARORA ENGINEERS, INC. (ARORA) - Arora provides clients in the aviation, transportation, education, government, and commercial/institutional sectors with engineering services for intelligent infrastructure solutions. Through smart design, construction management, and facilities maintenance management, we rethink industry needs to help keep clients on the cutting edge and add value to a project. Arora is a growing firm that welcomes individuals with a thirst for knowledge and the energy to tackle projects that help take the infrastructure of our world to the next level.

DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees assigned to this position.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against, on the basis of these factors or of disability.