Regional Safety Lead

Summary/Purpose:

The Regional Safety Lead provides a strong safety presence in Braun Intertec offices and locations where we have field employees. This role provides a local source of example, two-way communication, employee advocacy, problem solving, and support for Safety goals/initiatives/policies. 

Responsibilities:

• Provide a direct and effective connection between corporate/regional management and field personnel to help align field personal with goals/strategies/policies and inform management teams of field/office needs and issues.
• Know and enforce OSHA and other federal, state and local standards as well as company safety polices for establishing a safe work environment on all projects.
• Conduct PPE assessments; including respiratory fit testing and training when required.
• Use consistent methods and tools to audit local offices and project teams; report findings, support corrective action and follow up on improvements.
• Conduct program audits to surface opportunities to improve the level to which the corporate safety manual is being applied; communicate, help close and follow up on gaps. 
• Work with local leaders to constantly communicate and reinforce safety leading and lagging indicator results as well as related Safety strategic plans/initiatives.
• Align employees with a clear understanding of how Safety improvement impacts them, others, our clients, and other goals/objectives.
• Lead by example with safe attitudes and behaviors; demonstrate constant commitment to safety vision, goals, initiatives and policies.
• Effectively challenge and coach employees around their individual safety-based attitudes and behaviors.
• Participate in large project pre-planning and kickoff meetings.
• Represent the company during client inspections, meetings and other industry gatherings.
• Identify client concerns and communicate the concerns to the project team; works with project team and others to resolve safety related issues.
• Know and support local Co-ops, other new hires and Safety Representatives.  Check in, encourage, coach and help problem solve specific needs, concerns and issues.
• Contribute to local Safety Meetings (offices and job sites) and use these opportunities to inform, align, encourage, and surface needs of local employee owners.
• Support local safety training goals and needs; through assessing needs, facilitating training sessions, and helping with coordinating and documenting training when necessary.
• Lead and participate in initial incident response, obtaining diagnosis and treatment plans, incident investigation, incident reporting, and follow up on injury and corrective actions.
• Support local Business Development with proposal development at times; involve corporate safety when necessary.
• Complete other assignments as time allows that match capabilities and team/region needs.

Required Skills:

• Communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Work independently, self-directed and effectively aligned with safety program goals.
• Identify and mitigate hazards found on the common jobsites, help others do the same.
• Audit in an office and field setting using solid observation skills and effective coaching skills.
• Contribute to in depth incident investigation, cause analysis and corrective action planning.
• Effectively follow up on corrective actions and work with and through change resistance.
• Demonstrated desire to care for and serve people.
• Provide a clear example of safe attitudes and behaviors, coach other on opportunities for attitude and behavior change.
• Observe gaps and trends in safety performance, recommend options and solutions to address them.
• Good computer skills (Power Point, Word, Excel).

Minimum Experience and Education:

• Three or more years of safety experience preferably within the construction industry or a degree in Occupational Safety or related field; field experience preferred.
• OSHA 40 certificate and working knowledge of OSHA 1910 and 1926 standards preferred.
• Current HAZWOPER training and MSHA training or the ability to obtain.
• Required to complete site-specific client training as needed to access work sites.
• Ability to travel regularly within geographic area of responsibility (may include up to 20% overnight travel). Occasional travel outside geographic area for Regional, Corporate, Client or Industry meetings/conferences.
• Valid driver’s license and clean driving record must be maintained.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

Work Environment:

Responsibilities will be carried out in both office and project site work environments. Project sites will vary, including, but not limited to commercial, manufacturing, light and heavy construction, transportation and many types of rural (forests, swamps, fields, etc.) settings.

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.

Braun Intertec strives to ensure that its careers web site is accessible to all. If you need assistance completing your online application, please email [email protected].

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Braun Intertec is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please e-mail us at [email protected]. In your e-mail, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.