What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Safety Manager position at The Lane Construction Corporation?
The Lane Construction Corporation is one of America’s leading construction companies, specializing in large, complex civil infrastructure. For nearly 130 years, it has contributed to the development of the country’s vast network of roads, highways, and bridges, including the Interstate Highway System. Lane also specializes in tunnels, metro and railway systems, as well as airports and water and wastewater treatment plants
Summary :
The Project Safety Manager is responsible for leading, directing, managing and enforcing the accident prevention program and the laws that relate to the safety of our work on a single assigned construction project.
Responsibilities :
Including but not limited to :
- Support all safety efforts on the project and promote and solidify LANE’s safety culture.
- Supervise, develop, and manage other safety professionals under his / her area of responsibility to ensure the effective administration of the project / company accident prevention efforts.
- Administer compliance with the safety program and lead accident prevention efforts to meet or exceed company and project safety goals, continuously striving to reduce incident rates.
- Manage regulatory exposures to ensure zero citations.
- Carry out job and assigned duties while maintaining Lane’s values.
- Hold pre-construction planning meeting with subcontractors to review overall site safety program, job hazard analysis for their scope of work, and ensure plans are in place to mitigate risks.
- Ensure proper pre-planning for all activities and tasks for employees and subcontractors.
- Manage time and resource allocation appropriately to provide overall safety leadership to assigned project.
- Conduct work area assessments.
- Develop and facilitate applicable training programs.
- Perform and document jobsite inspections and audits with a focus on hazard recognition and unsafe behaviors.
- Coordinate and conduct safety meetings / training programs to ensure effective communication amongst employees.
- Participate in regulatory agency inspections and investigations to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
- Work with operations to generate work plans for all phases of work.
- Communicate with corporate claims department to ensure proper documentation has been prepared and maintained on asset loss and workers compensation claims.
- Build working relationships with all project staff and subcontractor safety representatives.
- Enforce Safety Program and related policies and procedures and implement immediate corrective actions in accordance with LANE, Federal, State and Local regulations and owner requirements.
- Create safety reports for the project, analyze metrics and make recommendations for improvement over baseline.
- Investigate and analyze near misses, accidents, injuries, and incident trends and assist in the root cause analysis process to ensure corrective measures are put in place to eliminate the potential for reoccurrence.
Qualifications :
Lane Construction offers a comprehensive benefits package with an excellent opportunity to grow and be part of one of the most respected names in the construction industry. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Lane is an Equal Opportunity Employer M / F / D / V.
