Field Safety Manager

ENERGY SYSTEMS GROUP^® is hiring a Field Safety Manager to join our Corporate Environmental Health and Safety Team at our Jesse Brown VA Hospital project located in Chicago, Illinois. This position is onsite.

The Field Safety Manager directs and completes onsite safety support for ESG’s projects through duties that include, but are not limited to: site safety planning and implementation, document review and processing, site safety management system deployment, written and verbal safety communications, and general clerical skills. The individual will have constant exposure to and influence over subcontractors and ESG Project Management staff. This position is a self-starting leader who will make a positive safety culture impact by daily contacts with the construction management and subcontractor teams. This position will maintain relationships and performance status of subcontractor teams to ensure the ESG project team is maintaining a compliant worksite.

The essential functions of the position include:

• Serve as an occupational safety resource to ESG construction project teams. Some responsibilities include:
  • Ensuring that all the projects’ activities are conducted with all applicable OSHA requirements and regulations
  • Maintaining and ensuring subcontractor performance expectations on projects
  • Assisting in preparing and deploying Accident Prevention Plans (APP) and safety planning for project development including participating in risk reviews and kick-off meetings
  • Performing site inspections, mishap and near miss investigations, site orientations, development of Activity Hazard Analysis (AHA) and APPs and incident investigations with Root Cause Analysis
  • Serving as “Competent and/or Qualified Person” for activities including, but not necessarily limited to; fall protection, confined space entry, scaffolds, hot work, lockout/tag out, PPE
  • Providing back up support to ESG construction teams when other ESG construction management team members are not present on the project
  • Compiling and maintaining audit reviews and follow-ups for completion
  • Providing administrative assistance to a project for development of EHS protocols and site safety plans
  • Conducting and documenting Safety Orientations and weekly Safety meetings
  • Correcting any safety deficiencies or unsafe acts

Your background includes:

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least five years’ experience supervising construction and general industry EHS programs or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Demonstrated in depth knowledge and application of OSHA regulations pertaining to construction and general industry safety programs
• Hands on experience executing safety practices including but not limited to lock out/ tag out, confined space entry, hot work permits, line opening, fall prevention/protection
• Instructor-signed OSHA 30-hour Construction Industry or General Industry training card

A bonus to have:

• Occupational Safety Degree
• EM-385-1-1 requirement or regulation experience
• Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), or Certified Safety Professional (CSP)

What we bring to you:

• Professional growth and development programs including tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision insurance plans and wellness plans for employee and your family
• Life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability , and supplemental benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Nine Paid Holidays
• Paid Vacation and Personal/Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave for the birth, adoption, or placement of a child/children
• Highly competitive salaries and incentive structure

We want you to know:

ESG is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer dedicated to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We value talent and understand that our colleagues allow us the opportunity to deliver an exceptional customer experience. We achieve our goals through teamwork and conduct our business with integrity.

Join our world-class team to provide safe, reliable innovative energy efficiency and infrastructure solutions for K-12 schools and universities to local, state and federal government agencies and more.

This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR §§ 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a), and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

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