Safety Representative

Become Part of Our Team

As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
  
  

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Maintain a comprehensive knowledge of Company specific Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) standards, programs and goals by applying HSE procedures as established by the Company on a project site or in an office through training.
• Confirm project site adheres to Company and regulatory HSE standards and guidelines.
• Conduct onsite risk assessment and mitigation.
• Promote and foster HSE standards and goals with programs throughout the project to confirm a safe and productive work environment.
• Responsible for maintaining HSE-specific project files on testing for substance abuse, collecting environmental or health samples, and for providing personal protective equipment to project personnel.
• Create, administer and monitor HSE programs involving all levels of employees on the project or in the office through presentations, printed materials, and activities.
• Create summaries/reports/presentations for project management and make recommendations based on interpretations.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Assist crews with site safety needs via tool box talks, safety check lists, job hazard analysis, etc.
• Ability to communicate effectively with management, coworkers, client, vendors, subcontractors and visitors.
• Must have great communication skills and be bi-lingual in Spanish/English.
• Provide structure around site safety with work crews and subcontractors.
• Raise awareness of potential hazards that exist on a jobsite with team by reviewing what can be done to minimize risk.
• Conduct regular safety audits throughout the duration of a project assessing all safety related issues and follow up with the project team.
• Maintain the information technology and systems that are essential to capture and analyze key data, present reporting and communicate effectively.
• Computer skills required. Must be familiar with Microsoft office (Word, PPT, Excel & Outlook).
• Develop and maintaining strong relationships with every member of the project team, subcontractors and clients.
• Willing to address large groups of employees for training and other needs.
• Candidate expected to have well versed knowledge of OSHA construction standards.
• Prior safety or highway construction related experience a plus.
  
  

About Us

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.