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Safety is a Shared Responsibility and Yonkers Contracting Company, has an opportunity for a Site Safety Manger to join our team! Qualified candidates must have 5-7 years of civil contracting experience. Reporting to the Director of Safety, the Site Safety Manager administers the safety program and serves as the safety advisor, ensuring safety compliance by the project team, all union labor and subcontractors working at the site.
Essential Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Support project specific safety efforts and promote Yonkers Contracting Safety First culture
- Effectively implement site-specific safety program
- Monitor employees & subcontractors’ adherence to the site-specific safety & health plan
- Conduct site-safety orientation for all employees assigned to the site
- Conduct and/or coordinate worker training, maintain training records
- Hazard anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control
- Ensure proper use of personal safety protective equipment
- Conduct daily safety inspection and Safety tool talks
- Investigate and report all accidents
- Compliance: track and ensure all certifications are current
- Maintain all safety related documentation
Perform audits: safety, inspect facilities, machinery and safety equipment, compliance documentation
- Provide technical guidance and coaching
Experience: 5-7 years of construction safety management experience
Familiar with NYC & NYS DEP. Approved Site Safety Representative a plus
- Hazwoper 40 Hour
- NYC DOB SST
- RCRA & DOT Hazardous Waste
- OSHA 30
- MPT
- Computer Skills are essential – Word and Excel
- Must have valid driver’s license (will require authorization for a motor vehicle report)
- Must provide valid identification to work in the U.S (form I9)
Attributes:
- Ability to take direction, prioritize, execute, and problem solve in a high-pressure environment; must be highly organized and work effectively within given time constraints
- Demonstrate effective communication skills, capable of managing multiple projects, interpersonal skills. Exhibits positivity, passion, integrity, and responsibility
- Self-motivated; team oriented with collaborative work style
Physical Demands/Working Conditions (with or without reasonable accommodation)
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. Monitor safety which may require travel by vehicle and by walking on and around a construction site during various stages of construction, and in all types of weather conditions
- Must be able to perform activities requiring use of arms and legs, including climbing ladders/scaffolding, lifting & handling materials, walking & balancing, stooping.
- Must be able to speak & hear detailed information through oral communication.
- Must be able to see clearly and recognize small details.
Yonkers Contracting Company (Yonkers) is a general contractor focused on building infrastructure projects for public and private clients. A well-established construction organization, Yonkers possesses the technical, financial, and managerial strength built over seventy-five years of continuous operation.
Our core business lines encompass highways, bridges, rail, transit, water/wastewater and energy/environmental projects, and commercial developments. Yonkers works within all project delivery frameworks, including general contracting and design-build. Bringing the best solution to meet the specific project needs comes from experience. Yonkers’ breadth of experience –from simple to complex and small to large projects – enables us to match construction methods and technologies to each project’s objectives. Yonkers has a proven ability to lead multi-faceted teams to complete complex projects on aggressive schedules. Yonkers’ solution-focused experience combined with our sizable equipment fleet creates the synergy that results in quality projects, delivered on time and on budget safely.
Yonkers Contracting policies and decisions on employment and promotion are based on merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs. Yonkers Contracting provides equal employment opportunity to employees and qualified applicants without regard to employee’s or applicant’s actual or perceived race (including traits associated with race such as hair texture, hairstyles), color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, ethnicity, immigration or citizenship status, alienage, marital or partnership status, familial status, caregiver status, pregnancy and related medical conditions, sexual and reproductive health decisions, status as a veteran or active military service member, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, genetic information, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking, credit history, salary history, unemployment status, protected political activities, height, weight, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law, and in accordance with applicable law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest. ”EEO/M/F/VET/DISAB/SO
