BL Harbert International LLC

Site Safety Manager (SSHO)

BL Harbert International LLC$80K — $95K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School or Trade School education required.
  • 10 years of general safety experience, including 5 years in construction projects.
  • Certification like OSHA 30-hour for Construction or USACE EM385-1-1 is required.
  • Documented Competent Person Safety Training in relevant areas necessary.
  • Preferred certifications such as STS, CHST, CSP, or CRIS are a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Enforce federal, state, and company safety regulations on site.
  • Identify and rectify hazardous situations proactively.
  • Conduct incident investigations to determine root causes.
  • Advising project teams on safety, health, and environmental matters.
  • Establish relationships with project's safety counterparts and medical staff.

Benefits

  • Support for continuous personal development and training.
  • Opportunity for advancement to Regional Safety Manager.
  • Active involvement in promoting a positive safety culture.
  • Empowerment of personnel through project climate initiatives.
Full Job Description
Reports to:

Site Project Manager

(In matters requiring technical support the Site Safety Manager has direct report to appropriate Corporate Safety representative)

Supervises:

Directly supervises Site Safety Technician and personnel assigned to site safety duties.

(Site Safety Manager is empowered to manage and enforce site safety, health and environmental efforts regarding all site personnel)

Educational Requirements of position:

Minimum:
  • High School Education and/or Trade School
  • A minimum of 10 years of general safety experience including 5 years of applicable construction project experience.
  • Industry Certification/Accreditation
    • OSHA 30-hour for Construction course and/or USACE EM385-1-1 40-hour course
    • Documented Skills Training
    • Documented Competent Person Safety Training in applicable disciplines

Preferred:
  • Industry specific pro-board certification (STS, CHST, CSP, CRIS, etc.)
  • Degree in a relevant curriculum from an accredited college or university
  • Advanced emergency response training or experience (EMT, EMT-P, Hazmat, Technical Rescue etc.)

Technical Requirements of position:
  • Software
    • Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Outlook
    • Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint or similar software applications used in developing training materials
    • Familiar with Microsoft Excel
  • General
  • Mastery of applicable construction safety standards
  • Basic understanding of building components and their installation; construction tasks, scheduling and trade sequencing.
  • Basic understanding of each construction trades' scope of work.
  • Basic understanding of risk management principles

Essential Function of the position:
  • Ability to enforce all applicable and/or required federal, state, local and company safety, health and environmental regulations
  • Ability to pro-actively recognize potential hazardous situations/exposures and implement corrective measures.
  • Ability to conduct incident investigations to determine potential contributing factors and root causes
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written) required for coordination with and support of:
    • Executive, senior and project management
    • Occupational medicine clinics, physicians, staff
    • Insurance carriers, brokers, adjustors, risk engineers
  • Function as the project's safety, health and environmental technical advisor

Relationship Management:
  • Establish and maintain relationship with project team, owner's safety counterpart, and project insurance risk engineers
  • Establish and maintain relationship with project subcontractors and vendor's safety counterpart
  • Establish and maintain relationship with project's occupational medicine clinic, physician, and medical staff
  • Establish and maintain relationship with emergency response authorities having jurisdiction
  • Ensures positive exposure to community

Corporate Culture/Evolution:
  • Embraces BLHI Corporate Values
  • Demonstrates adherence to BLHI Corporate Value in daily management
  • Builds project climate to empower personnel and sustain BLHI safety culture
  • Interacts with professionalism and pro-activism
  • Continually seeks feedback and personal development for advancement
  • Trains direct reports for advancement
  • Seeks to understand and further the overall objectives of BLHI

Mental Effort:

Considerable mental effort and comprehension. Must be able to make sound decisions quickly. Must be able to have sustained concentration with frequent interruptions.

Physical Effort:

Requires moderate, varied physical effort and dexterity including: sitting stationary, moving around an office or jobsite, ascending and descending work areas, seeing and communicating effectively.

Working Conditions:

Construction project site.

Potential advancement position:

Regional Safety Manager

Requirements for Advancement:
  • In-depth understanding of construction safety, health and environmental standards
  • In-depth understanding of and consistent enforcement of BLHI's safety, health and environmental programs
  • Ability to support and coordinate with project teams and multiple projects
  • Ability to manage disputes
  • Evidence of upholding BLHI corporate values and requiring same of others
  • Understanding and engaging in BLHI overall goals and objectives
  • Working knowledge of risk management.
  • Evidence of supporting role in business development process


About BL Harbert International LLC

B.L. Harbert International, LLC, is a construction company based in Birmingham, Alabama, that was founded in 2000 by Billy L. Harbert, as a division of Harbert Corporation. B.L. Harbert has two main operating divisions, the U.S. Division and the International Division. The U.S. Division is further divided into the following divisions: commercial, healthcare, federal, and civil/industrial. They undertake the preconstruction, general construction, construction management, and design-build services of office buildings, condominiums, institutional buildings, healthcare facilities, churches, industrial facilities, water and wastewater treatment plants. BL Harbert employed over 8,000 people around the world as of 2021. Much of the firm's business is in the form of federal government contracts for embassy construction projects abroad, the largest of these in cumulative contract value being U.S. Embassy Beirut, U.S. Embassy New Delhi, U.S. Consulate Erbil, and Guatemala City. In 2019 the company was ranked the 90th largest contractor in the country by Engineering News-Record. They are also one of the top 100 contractors for the US government. The company has additional U.S. offices in: Atlanta, Charleston, Houston, Huntsville, Oxford, Nashville and Washington D.C. The company has international offices in: London, Dubai, and Istanbul.
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