Client: Global Biotech / Pharma
Title: Environmental Health & Safety Project Manager
Location: On site in West Greenwich, RI
Duration: 1 year contract + extensions
You will bring a strong construction safety background and the ability to support project teams through
field engagement, technical guidance, and collaboration with site and corporate safety resources.
Advanced expertise is required in several of the following disciplines:
- Construction safety management
- Subcontractor and trade-partner safety
- Cranes, rigging, and critical lifts
- Excavation, trenching, and underground utilities
- Job hazard analysis and safety culture development
Duties/Accountabilities include:
Program Management:
• Support the construction safety program and serve as the on-site safety resource for project
teams and trade partners.
• Develop project safety plans covering site logistics, emergency response, permits, and high-risk
work controls.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, applicable regulations, owner standards, and contractual safety
requirements.
• Implement field inspections and audits to verify controls before and during construction
activities.
• Report safety performance, corrective actions, leading indicators, and emerging risks to project
leadership.
• Support other EHS department safety programs and projects as needed.
Client Support:
• Partner with owners, project managers, superintendents, and subcontractors to deliver safe
construction operations.
• Integrate safety into pre-task planning, coordination meetings, toolbox talks, and field routines.
• Use safety metrics, audit findings, and field observations to drive site action plans and
improvement.
• Lead job and activity hazard analyses; verify controls, permits, and competent-person coverage.
• Review scope, schedule, design, and logistics changes for safety impacts before work proceeds.
• Assess high-risk work, including falls, struck-by hazards, confined spaces, electrical work,
excavation, and lifting.
• Verify safe-work procedures for high-risk activities through inspections and corrective-action
follow-through.
• Investigate incidents and near misses; implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Strong understanding of commercial and industrial construction operations, including multi-
employer work sites.
• Ability to partner with and effectively influence staff and management
• Knowledge of OSHA construction standards and applicable federal, state, and local construction
safety regulations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of construction safety principles, risk-control methods, regulatory
requirements, and practical field application.
• Strong communication, presentation, program-development, and construction project-
management skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and other computer software systems