What are the responsibilities and job description for the Safety Manager position at Mestex?
Scope of Position:
Responsible for coordinating duties with respect to environmental and health programs, as well as all aspects of safety.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conducts safety meetings, audits, and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluate performance, identify corrective action, and implement follow-up assessments.
- Plans, implements, and conducts preventative care, safety, and compliance training programs.
- Plans, implements, manages, and maintains comprehensive environmental safety & health programs on-premises or at project site locations.
- Provides project management team with guidance on health and safety and confirms project site fulfills industry, local, state, and federal guidelines, and regulations.
- Collaborates with management to develop and maintain Emergency Action Plan.
- Primary contact for workplace injury, and incident notifications.
- Collaborates with maintenance for inspection activities, reports, and correspondence.
- Guarantees that all work is performed in accordance with approved manuals, internal policies and procedures, and best engineering practices.
- Provides technical support to project managers.
- Develops and maintains Safety metrics; provides visual feedback to all employees on Safety metrics.
- Reports the status of projects to business and market leaders.
- Participates in team meetings and provides regular on-site presence.
- Has knowledge of Environmental permitting and can assist with reporting and maintaining the permits.
- Perform other duties as assigned by senior management.
Position Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent.
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Health, Engineering or related discipline preferred.
- Current certifications in First Aid, CPR, OSHA, 30-hour certification or greater in General Industry standards. OSHA 501 Certification is not required but is highly desirable.
- Risk assessment/management.
- Administrative policies and procedures.
- 3-5 years of experience applying OSHA Regulations to the workplace.
- Familiarity with project and department budget process and tools.
- Knowledge of project controls.
- Conceptual planning ability.
- Conflict management and problem-solving skills.
- Leadership ability.
- Multi-tasking ability.
- Communication, meeting, and presentation skills.
- Comfort with time reporting systems
