Position SummaryThe Safety Manager - Healthcare Construction leads safety, health, infection-control, and risk-management programs for CORE Construction healthcare projects. This field-based leader must have demonstrated success in occupied and operational healthcare environments and will protect patients, visitors, healthcare personnel, employees, subcontractors, and the public while maintaining compliance with OSHA requirements, healthcare facility standards, infection-control protocols, owner requirements, and CORE policies.
The Safety Manager serves as a key safety authority on assigned projects and is expected to proactively identify risk, enforce corrective actions, and stop work when conditions could compromise worker safety, patient safety, infection prevention, life safety, or healthcare operations.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities- Serve as the primary field safety leader for assigned healthcare projects and maintain a consistent daily field presence.
- Develop, implement, and maintain project-specific safety plans; ensure compliance with OSHA, applicable regulations, owner requirements, healthcare facility standards, and CORE policies.
- Conduct inspections, audits, observations, and risk assessments; review and enforce AHAs, JHAs, pre-task plans, shutdown procedures, and Safe Work Plans.
- Lead implementation and enforcement of ICRA and healthcare infection-control requirements, including barriers, containment, negative air, HEPA filtration, dust control, pressure relationships, temporary partitions, protected pathways, and construction access points.
- Coordinate closely with Infection Prevention, Facilities/Engineering, clinical leadership, Security, Risk Management, owners, and other healthcare stakeholders.
- Support safe phasing around active patient-care areas, critical systems, shutdowns, utility interruptions, tie-ins, demolition, above-ceiling work, emergency egress, and fire/life-safety systems.
- Monitor high-risk activities including hot work, electrical work, demolition, fall protection, roofing, excavation, confined spaces, lifting/rigging, silica-generating work, hazardous materials, and temporary utilities.
- Exercise stop-work authority when conditions create unacceptable risk and require timely corrective action before work resumes.
- Conduct project safety orientations, toolbox talks, and healthcare-specific safety/infection-control education; coach project leaders and trade partners on hazard recognition and risk mitigation.
- Lead investigations of incidents, serious near misses, property damage, environmental events, and high-potential occurrences, including root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
- Support healthcare-specific emergency response, shutdown planning, fire/life-safety planning, emergency drills, and required exercises.
- Maintain complete safety documentation, training records, inspection reports, incident records, corrective-action tracking, and regulatory documentation.
Minimum Qualifications- 7+ years of construction safety experience, including at least 5 years directly related to healthcare construction safety.
- Demonstrated experience as a lead Safety Manager or Safety Professional on healthcare construction projects.
- Substantial, recent experience in occupied and operational hospitals, medical centers, outpatient facilities, clinics, laboratories, surgical facilities, or similar healthcare environments.
- Demonstrated field experience implementing and enforcing ICRA and healthcare infection-control requirements.
- Strong working knowledge of OSHA 29 CFR 1926 construction standards, construction means and methods, sequencing, and trade-specific hazards.
- Experience coordinating construction around active patient care, critical building systems, shutdowns, utility interruptions, and life-safety requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to independently identify hazards, enforce corrective action, and stop unsafe work.
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and field leadership skills.
Education- Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Safety Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Environmental Health, or related field preferred.
- Equivalent education and experience may be considered for candidates with substantial directly applicable healthcare construction safety experience.
Required Certifications- OSHA 30-Hour Construction
- OSHA 500 or OSHA 510
- Current First Aid/CPR/AED
- ICRA healthcare construction certification or documented formal ICRA training
- CHST or CSP
