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The Sr Director of Safety is responsible for providing strong safety guidance to the safety management team as they drive the company’s safety activities in the field. This role is responsible for managing and executing the organizations initiatives for safety in the workplace in an emerging, complex, and fast paced union and non-union environment. This hands-on manager will demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of Safety in the traffic, construction, or field service industry.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate and influence others in creating a Safety Culture by changing mindset to everyone’s responsibility.
- Develop, implement, and manage the company’s safety program, policies, and procedures.
- Direct and collaborate with staff to successfully execute all safety initiatives.
- Review and analyze root cause for accidents and other hazards.
- Oversee the Near Miss program, delegating issues to be resolved and reporting out successful changes to the organization.
- Provide recommendations and implement best practices to resolve deficiencies and prevent future issues.
- Oversee continued safety improvements and set annual objectives and targets. Report findings and solutions to leadership and stakeholders.
- Develop additional ways for reducing claim costs and improving EMR.
- Oversee OSHA 300 Logs for all Business Units. Generate reports for meeting presentations.
- Provide recommendations and assistance to Safety Managers, Project Managers and Superintendents, with respect to job site hazards, employee training and safe equipment operation.
- Ensure compliance with corporate worker’s compensation program including working with internal personnel to effectively investigate and resolve claims in an expeditious and cost-effective manner as needs arise.
- Lead, coach and mentor safety staff and field personnel on the Corporate Safety Mission.
- Provide support to field staff in the event of 3rd Party Site Inspections.
- Collaborate with human resources and other departments to drive initiatives and company goals.
- Ensure job sites remain hazard and accident free by conducting periodic safety inspections.
- Other projects and initiatives that drive organizational goals and results.
Supervisor Responsibilities:
- This position will supervise Safety Manager’s & Claim Specialists
Education, Certifications & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (Safety, Safety & Health, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering) or equivalent combination of education and technical experience
- 10+ years of progressive Health & Safety experience.
- 5+ years in a Supervisory or Managerial capacity.
- Above average knowledge of MS Office and Safety Reporting Software.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time. Potentially more during busy season (April – Oct).
- Demonstrated experience working with government regulations and thorough knowledge of federal, state and local government Health & Safety regulations (OSHA, FMCSA, DOT, etc.)
- Must have strong problem-solving skills and a desire to create solutions.
- Maintain a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Must have the ability to work in sensitive and confidential situations.
- Prior experience working under tight deadlines with changing priorities.
- Ability to anticipate work needs and follow through with minimum direction.
- Exceptional organization and time management skills.
- Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from internal or external customers.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently, be self-motivated with a high sense of urgency.
- Ability to establish and maintain rapport and effective communication with diverse levels within the company and external organizations.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions with ability to deal with abstract and concrete variables.
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
- 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for long periods of time at a computer and use hands to finger, handle, or feel, walk, reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, talk and hear. The employee is moderately required to stand and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus.
- Position will work in an office setting but will travel to off-site locations and therefore require wearing all PPE depending on circumstance which may include dust mask, safety glasses, hard hat, ear protection, safety vest and/or steel toed footwear.
High Star Traffic is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, D/V.Disclaimer The above statements are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the job requirements. Rather, they are intended to describe the general nature of the job. Company reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.
