Safety, Health & Environmental Director (Howard S Wright)

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As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Summary

This position serves as the primary company representative responsible for the overall direction of the company's safety function. Proactively implements company safety programs to enforce compliance on all divisional job sites and prevents accidents and reduces time lost due to accidents by developing, communicating and training on safety programs and policies.

Essential Functions

Responsibilities

• Enforces compliance with federal and state safety regulations on all projects
• Develops and administers company's safety programs and policies with Safety and Operations
• Participates in intra-company Safety Task Team meetings, initiatives and planning
• Reviews project plans and specifications and make recommendations to Operations on potential hazards
• Oversees and conducts education and training programs for employees, subcontractors and owner representatives and ensure programs are effective and cost efficient
• Conducts random safety surveys and audits; implements changes to meet identified needs
• Manages incident investigations and open claims and analyzes claim data for prevention solutions
• Assists Project Safety Task Teams with weekly safety evaluations and necessary corrections
• Ensures job startup kits and signs are prepared for projects
• Ensures Safety team is communicating progress, issues, and new developments with company employees on a regular basis
• Maintains division-wide records, including daily injury logs, OSHA 300 forms, meeting minutes, subcontractor correspondence, etc.
• Prepares and analyzes reports that summarize and forecast division activity and financial impact in areas of safety, worker's compensation, and other safety, health, and environmental activity
• Prepares and manages the Safety budget
• Strives to continually seek feedback and improve services/tools/department deliverables to internal customers

Promote Customer Relations

• Builds effective relationships with customers, design team, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups that reflect and support company core values and meets or exceeds the customer's expectations
• Actively participates in industry, client, and community relations to enhance company image

Culture, Leadership and Employee Development

• Promotes and communicates our vision and purpose through Service, Talent & Choices
• Serves as a role model and promotes professional behavior
• Participates in company training programs and commits to self-development
• Keeps current with new developments in OSHA regulations and company safety policies and communicates to the appropriate company personnel
• Encourages employees to achieve career goals by providing challenging assignments, achievable and motivational development plans, and ongoing actionable and candid feedback
• Negotiates skillfully in tough situations with internal and external parties by winning concessions without damaging relationships and being direct and diplomatic
• Develops/facilitates safety-related company training programs

Embrace key BBC-wide initiatives, like Zero Harm, Sustainability, and core Values and does one's part to demonstrate relentless behaviors and embeds them into our culture.

Perform other related duties as needed

Time is split between an office setting and on job sites in an office trailer or in an existing structure. Due to daily condition changes on construction projects, when employees are outside of the office trailer or structure, they must wear appropriate personal protective equipment as required by the company's safety policies and as required for weather conditions.Working Conditions

• The project team and/or team member may need to move to other projected work geographic locations, if necessary.

Education, Experience and Knowledge

• B.S. in Safety & Environmental Health or related field and 10+ years of experience, preferably in the construction industry. Depending upon the project size, scope, and complexity the years of experience may vary. Certified as a Construction Site Safety Technician (CSST) or Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST) required.
• Demonstrated ability to assist with more than one project at a time
• Demonstrates solid customer service skills and verbal/written skills
• Demonstrates the ability to mentor/train others
• Supervises and develops direct reports while prioritizing and delegating significant responsibilities to others
• Demonstrates leadership skills with ability and willingness to face challenges, solve problems, and motivate others, while maintaining effective relationships with customers by meeting or exceeding their requirements and expectations
• Demonstrates proficiency using a personal computer (PC) and company communication tools, such as email, internet, and Microsoft products (e.g., Word, Excel, Office, Outlook)

The base compensation range for the role of Safety, Health & Environmental Director in Seattle, WA posted above is $175k to $190k per year.

About us

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Company, is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm, we are challenging the construction industry's assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation's largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.

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