Safety Manager

Become Part of Our Team

Heavy Rail experience required. Transit experience, FRA Rail, Civil Engineering Experience preferred.

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 Care & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays

Salary Range: $115K-$130K

Summary

We are seeking a proactive, enthusiastic, qualified Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) leader to join our California rail projects team. As a member of the (loss prevention) team, you will be responsible for the implementation of the company's safety and loss prevention programs. Ensures office staff as well as project crews and subcontractors are trained and compliant in all safety programs and protocols, including federal/state regulations, to prevent accidents and/or injuries.

Essential Functions

Loss Prevention Responsibilities

• Conducts new hire employee orientations and basic EHS trainings with Balfour Beatty and subcontractor employees.
• Assists Loss Prevention and Operations in preparing safety related bid documents and project-specific safety programs.
• Coordinates all Loss Prevention efforts on the project with the Project Managers and Superintendents.
• Attends subcontractor preconstruction meetings, review task specific Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs) and assist with planning for safety issues.
• Assists with material and equipment acquisition for new project setup.
• Conducts frequent inspections of projects and identifies current and future safety challenges. These occur both daytime and nighttime.
• Assists Loss Prevention in establishing and administering project safety recognition programs.
• Prepares written reports of project inspections and assists project staff with correcting and preventing hazards.
• Conducts project loss prevention audits.
• Provides technical safety consulting services for projects and reviews preconstruction safety submittals.
• Leads Loss Prevention and project staff with safety training at all levels.
• Assists with establishing and maintaining a project crisis management plan.
• Conducts accident investigations and assists with OSHA and environmental inspections.
• Manages workers compensation claims including the return to work program.
• Maintains project incident logs for all reported injuries, GL claims, WC claims, and OSHA recordable.
• Assists, as needed, Superintendents with sediment and erosion control and other environmental responsibilities to manage Hazardous Materials Storage areas, Fugitive Dust, Cal EPA requirements, and similar regulatory issues consistent with construction & maintenance work.
• Must be able to site visit projects both days & nights.
• Travel: mostly day trips within SoCal region, with some overnight travel to projects and meetings, conferences and trainings.
• All other miscellaneous assigned tasks

Promote Customer Relations

• Establish and foster a positive collaborative working environment with staff and craft teammates
• Serves as a role model and promotes professional behavior
• 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 our Creed. Communicates our vision and purpose through Service, Talent & Choices.
• 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 jobsite 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.
• Assists in developing/facilitating 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.

Minimum Requirements

• FRA regulated rail experience
• OSHA/MSHA/CalOSHA experience a plus
• Have or be able to obtain (within one {1} year) an accredited EHS credential.
• 3-5 years of HSE experience preferably in construction or closely related area
• Safety instructor credential(s) a plus
• Experience in leading EHS training courses and developing training curriculums.
• Valid driver's license is required.
• Proficiency using a personal computer (PC) and company communication tools, such as email, internet, and Microsoft products (e.g., Word, Excel, Office, Outlook required.
• Positive "Can-Do" style attitude

About Us

Balfour Beatty US 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.