Safety Specialist - Industrial Construction

Everything we do supports the work done in the field. The Safety Specialist works to proactively improve safety performance for their assigned project. The Safety Specialist works collaboratively with field management and leadership to ensure safety polices, programs, plans, and procedures are implemented, understood, and properly and consistently executed by field operations personnel. The Safety Specialist will also assist with the development and delivery of safety communications, meetings, and training. The position requires excellent communication, coaching, inter-personal, and computer skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure hazard and risk assessment and control measures are in place, utilized, and effective; address risks and safety concerns; improve safety performance; identify and share best practices.
• Conduct and document safety inspections and audits; provide field operations personnel with on-the-spot constructive feedback and coaching to improve knowledge, understanding, behaviors, and performance.
• Advise and assist field operations personnel with company, customer, and regulatory requirements (OSHA, DOT, and EPA).
• Monitor and assist with reporting, internal communication, and proper management of incidents, including injury/illness evaluation and first aid guidance.
• Collaborate with field management and risk management teams to ensure injury and property damage incidents (cases and claims) are properly managed.
• Assist with and/or review investigations into safety-related incidents; recommend and monitor corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor safety performance metrics and trends (leading and lagging indicators) and recommend and support corrective actions to improve.
• Assist with the communication, implementation, and oversight of safety-related policies, programs, and procedures.
• Assist with development and delivery of safety-related communications and training (alerts, bulletins, meetings, presentations, videos, etc.)
• Represent and support Operations and Safety during customer visits and interactions.

Requirements

• Associate’s (two-year) degree; bachelor's degree preferred.
• At least three years of work experience, which include safety responsibilities, in the utility, construction, or field service industry.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of OSHA regulatory requirements, first aid, and CPR.
• Valid state driver’s license.
• Experienced and adept at coaching employees, working with difficult people, and resolving difficult situations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Must be able to speak clearly and confidently to employees, supervisors, management, and customers. Must be able to write using proper spelling, grammar, and style.
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties the employee is regularly required to make use of close vision to read engineering blueprints and reduced size black and white drawings, specifications, fine print, reports, schedules, estimates, spreadsheets, summaries and

other documents in either hard copy or computer monitor. Must be able to converse on the telephone and in person, use hands and fingers to write and type, prepare email messages with attached files, and use personal computers and calculators. While performing the duties of this job the employee may be exposed to conditions that include weather such as heat and/or humidity and cold, fumes or airborne particles, exposure to dust and asphalt, and moving mechanical parts. There may be occasional exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals. Conditions can also include risk of electrical shock and risk of vibration. The noise level in the work environment can often be loud.

The Safety Specialist is regularly required to:

• Walk, climb stairs, sit, stand, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction.
• Talk and hear at normal levels.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Use hands and fingers to operate tools and other business machines.
• Lift and/or move up to seventy-five pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment described here is representative of those an employee encounters while performing the job. The employee works 85% outdoors in an uncontrolled environment. Twenty percent will be indoors in an office job site trailer with a mix of natural, incandescent, and fluorescent light. The trailer may be air-conditioned and furnished with a personal computer, a desk or work surface and a chair. The trailer may be located within an active construction site where noise levels may be high. The employee will be required to supervise and observe construction progress outdoors by walking and/or driving the site over rough or uneven terrain which may be dusty, muddy, wet, and noisy. The employee will follow safety regulations enforced at the job.

EEO Statement

The McDonnel Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Individuals who require reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in the search process should notify Human Resources.