F.H. Paschen has over 115 years of experience in the construction industry. You've driven on highways we paved, you've travelled through airports we modernized, you've commuted through rail stations we constructed, and your children learn in schools we built. But we are MORE than that. We offer MORE Versatility-as we work in any industry, offering any delivery method and service. We operate with MORE Tenacity-as we maneuver through tight schedules, spaces, and budgets. We provide MORE Ingenuity-by creating solutions to solve your greatest challenges. And we perform with MORE Pride-in focusing on safety and quality, and in offering more opportunities for our communities and diverse populations to build with us. We deliver far more than just on time and on budget-we deliver with MORE Paschen.
Position Overview:
The Safety Manager is responsible for ensuring that employees follow Corporate and project health and safety regulations. The Safety Manager is responsible for continuously monitoring, implementing, training, coaching, and adapting safety procedures and operations to ensure a safe and fully compliant work environment for all employees. Additional duties would include using safety research and best practices to create policies that eliminate workplace hazards, documenting accidents in the workplace and investigating the circumstances of an illness or injury.
Assigned Responsibilities:
- Provide safety training for employees on policies, regulations, and procedures
- Advise the Michigan Office Executive Team Members on safety issues and compliance on specific projects and operations
- Analyze incident reports, metrics, and injury case studies in order to institute changes that lead to a safer environment
- Understand and enforce OSHA regulations as well as employer and owner rules and regulations on project sites
- Review procedures, regulations, and industry standards applicable to the processes, equipment, materials, and procedures used at the worksite to evaluate whether hazards are present
- Review Michigan accident and illness statistics, highlighting areas that may affect the organization.
- Make an analysis of each phase of each active project to determine what hazards exist in connection with the procedures, processes, materials, and equipment used to perform them.
- Conduct regular job site safety inspections of safety construction areas for all Michigan project sites. Document and distribute reports.
- Maintain, promote, and retain employee hazard reporting forms.
- Identify, document and recommend resolution of hazardous/potentially hazardous conditions.
- Provide safety orientation for all employees with emphasis on identification, prevention, and control of job hazards.
- Issue various permits (i.e., confined space, hot work) as required
- Assist and prepare site-specific safety plans and other required safety plans.
- Provide training to field staff as needed for the preparation and review of daily job hazard analysis
- Provide input to Corporate Safety Committee for collaboration on safety matters
- Provide assistance and updates to department and project management personnel to ensure compliance with all safety related procedures and policies.
- Mentor entry level engineers and other staff to be safety aware.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.