What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Safety Officer position at Shawmut?
Overview
Since our founding in 1982, Shawmut Design and Construction (a 100% employee-owned company) has been recognized as a Best Place To Work 53 times by our employee-owners. At Shawmut, you will have the opportunity to own your career and deliver impact within our culture of ownership and innovation focused around providing the gold standard of client service for the world’s most recognizable and elite brands and institutions.
We are looking for a Safety Officer to join our team in Rhode Island. Are you passionate about ensuring a safe work environment for the entire project team? To help the team think pro-actively so that we can provide a safe place to work? Are you committed to working hand-in-hand with our project supers and project managers to enforce our company policy as well as the OSHA safety regulations and policies?
Responsibilities
- Provide structure around site safety with superintendent and subcontractors
- Raise awareness of potential hazards that exist on a jobsite with owner 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
- Assist subcontractors with site safety needs via tool box talks, safety check lists, job hazard analysis, etc.
- Communicate directly with subcontractors to discuss concerns and Shawmut's expectations
- Maintain the information technology and systems that are essential to capture and analyze key data, present reporting and communicate effectively
- Develop and maintaining strong relationships with every member of the project team, subcontractors and clients
- Conduct new hire safety orientations
Qualifications
- Extensive knowledge of OSHA construction standards
- Bachelor’s Degree in Safety or related experience preferred
- Work requires frequent travel
- Prior safety or construction related internship a plus as well as working on a CCIP project
- Must reside in the southern New England area and flexible with required business travel
Shawmut prohibits discrimination against any staff member or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, disability, creed, citizenship status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
