Safety Manager

Overview

At Shawmut Design and Construction, we're proud that the culture we've built as a 100% employee-owned company as we have been recognized with over 83 Best Place to Work awards. Including Best Workplace by Fortune Magazine, Fortune Best Workplace for Women, Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, Great Place to Work's Best Workplace for Parents, and one of America's Best Employers by Forbes.

This position is a Boston Office based role which may require travel to help assist in supporting several Academic, Life Science and Higher Education projects in Central Mass.

Here's a glimpse into what we are offering:

• Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - be an employee owner!
• 401K with Match - receive company match up to 4% of your eligible pay
• Generous Paid Time Off policy - including vacation, summer Fridays, holidays, personal sick and a volunteer day
• The Extras: cell phone, laptop, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance, financial planning services and many more

Responsibilities

We are looking for someone with a great attitude with a strong client focus, and the ability to work in a collaborative manner to join our safety team. We're proud that the culture we've built as a 100% employee-owned company as we have been recognized with over 70 Best Place to Work awards-including Best Workplace by Fortune Magazine three years in a row, Fortune Best Workplace for Women, Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, Great Place to Work's Best Workplace for Parents, and one of America's Best Employers by Forbes.

We are currently looking for a full time Safety Manager to join our team in New England. Are you passionate about ensuring a safe work environment for the entire project team? To help the team think pro-actively so that we can provide a safe place to work? Are you committed to working hand-in-hand with our project supers and project managers to enforce our company policy as well as the OSHA safety regulations and policies?

Responsibilities:

• Set expectations, provide structure and create site specific programs and trainings (when necessary) for and with our superintendent and subcontractors
• Raise awareness of potential hazards that exist on the job-site with the Shawmut staff, subcontractors and the owner by reviewing what can be done to minimize risk from pre-construction through close-out.
• Conduct regular safety audits throughout the duration of the project assessing all safety related issues, communicating directly with team members to discuss concerns and perform the necessary follow up to meet Shawmut expectations
• Maintain the information technology and systems that are essential to capture and analyze key data, present reporting and communicate effectively while maintaining strong relationships with every member of the project team.
• Conduct new hire safety orientations for incoming construction operations staff as well as provide training on topics such as OSHA certification (10 & 30 hour), First Aid, construction specific requirements and new standards review.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in construction safety management or a related role with a general contractor
• Extensive knowledge of OSHA construction standards as well as an authorized OSHA 500 trainer
• Bachelors Degree required or equivalent experience preferred
• Must be First Aid and CPR qualified (or within 1 year of hire)
• Capable of delivering all other compliance based training including First Aid, CPR and Life Safety
• Good working knowledge with construction safety software.

Shawmut prohibits discrimination against any staff member or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, disability, creed, citizenship status, or any other legally protected characteristic.