Job Description

Safety Manager

Earth Services & Abatement (ESA) is seeking a top-notch Safety Manager to join our team. ESA is the leading environmental remediation and demolition firm in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions, providing turnkey asbestos and lead abatement, demolition, and contaminated soil and water remediation to commercial, industrial, and government clients nationwide. In 2020, we were named a top 3 US abatement firm in Engineering News Record's for Asbestos Abatement.

The Safety Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing all aspects of our safety program. This includes conducting on-site field safety inspections, creating and maintaining all company safety policies, procedures and implementing site specific safety plans that comply with OSHA, state and local government regulations. The Safety Manager will also be responsible for conducting employee training and refresher training programs as well as managing our DOT program.

Essential Duties / Responsibilities:

• Understand and believe in Zero Injury approach to safety.
• Direct, plan, implement and supervise corporate and job site safety programs.
• Create and implement site specific safety policies and plans.
• Travel and visit job sites and office locations conducting walk-throughs, training, and employee development.
• Manage, track, and implement DOT requirements.
• Works on assignments that are complex in nature where considerable judgment, analysis, and initiative are required in resolving problems and making recommendations.
• Create, coordinate, and conduct training as needed or requested.
• Track and maintain safety records, and training and files.
• Audit documentation, proactively participate in job site walk-throughs to view, correct and reward safety behaviors.
• Develop and manage the company's safety committee, support project managers and site supervisors with the program implementation.
• Formally present safety topics to employees, supervisors and management.
• Conduct job reviews to ensure supervision is performing company's safety programs.
• Follow up with management to address safety concerns and determine necessary corrections.
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with all levels of employees verbally and in writing.
• Ensure incidents are properly reported to internal and external parties.
• Work with Human Resources to track, evaluate and provide injury case management for injured workers with a return-to-work focus.
• Serve as Incident Commander during emergencies; willing to be reached and able to assist 24/7.
• Complete specific projects, assignments and other duties as assigned.
• Travel 20% of the time.

Basic Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree or six years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum four years of proven experience managing a successful safety program in the construction industry.
• Knowledge of asbestos, lead, and silica required.
• Project Design certification preferred.
• Monitors and controls company's safety standards in accordance with OSHA and state regulations.
• OSHA 30 and 500 required.
• Worker's compensation case management experience preferred.
• Knowledge of DOT and FMCSA compliance required.
• Certified to train HAZWOPER 40 hour and 8 hour preferred.
• Certified to train OSHA 30 hour and 10 hour preferred.
• Certified to train Asbestos Abatement 40 hour and 8 hour preferred.
• Detail oriented including strong time management and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of ISNetworld, Avetta, and Veriforce preferred.
• Current on Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and environmental laws.
• Broad knowledge of local, state and federal regulations.
• Effective skills in oral and written communications.
• Experience in training, speaking in large groups, leading teams, motivating and patience to retrain or change training when needed.
• Exhibit a high level of motivation and initiative.
• Proficient use of MSOffice.
• Ability to speak Spanish is preferred.
• Valid drivers license and clean motor vehicle record.
• S. Citizen or Permanent Resident Alien Status required.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, sit, and stand for up to 8 hours. Reach with hands and arms, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee may be required to bend/stoop; kneel, crouch, crawl, climb ladders; and lift, carry, push, pull, up to 60 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus specific vision.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to wear PPE; may be exposed to hazardous materials; fumes or airborne particles when visiting job sites; regularly exposed to indoor and/or outdoor temperature fluctuations caused by equipment and/or outside weather conditions in addition to humidity. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The stress level in this position is considered moderate.

We offer a dynamic team-oriented work environment with a benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid-time-off, paid holidays and a 401(k) plan.

Earth Services & Abatement Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minority/Veterans/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

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