Safety Manager (Franklin, VA) - Austin Industrial

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, Gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

Safety Manager

Responsibilities include executing the site safety program on an assigned project. Educates and trains Austin project staff in safety requirements, best practices in incident preventions. Ensures compliance with company and customer safety policies. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Builds working relationships with customer representatives, project staff, and subcontractor representatives
• Creates accurate safety reports and accident investigation documents
• Leads and participates in safety training and subcontractor development
• Represents company in a positive and professional manner with the customer and subcontractors
• Creates and facilitates safety training and orientations aligned with project specifics and schedules
• Participates in safety organizations outside of the company and in assigned region
• Ensures compliance with the company’s current safety manual, policies, and expectations
• Develops and maintains the Site Safety Execution Plan (SEP), ensures compliance with it and facilitates annual reviews.
• Engages in cross-site activities including cross audit opportunities with regional or area managers.
• Responds immediately to safety incidents and manages them to completion
• Participates in and leads on-site safety committees and meetings
• Ensures participation and quality in all aspects of Austin’s primary HSE platform - Austin CARE
• Other duties as assigned.
• Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States.
• Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position

Physical Demands: 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. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education –no minimum education requirements.

Experience – 10 years of maintenance and construction experience.

Certification/License: NCCER, OSHA 10, valid Driver’s License. OSHA 30 required. Preferred certification as one or more of the following: BCSP OHST, BCSP CHST, NCCER Construction Safety Technician, NCCER Safety Technology, OSHA 500, or OSHA 501, or equivalent.