Traveling Safety Manager (32828)

Position Summary

The Traveling Safety Manager is responsible for providing on-site safety oversight across multiple CEC project locations. This role involves conducting safety audits, incident investigations, and ensuring compliance with safety standards on assigned projects throughout the division. Frequent travel between job sites is required. This is a safety sensitive position.

Key Responsibilities

• Travel to assigned project sites to conduct safety surveys, audits, and investigations, collecting information and data as required to support the daily operations of multiple projects.
• Ensure Velocity reports are submitted daily by safety coordinators and then review reports for completeness. 
• Follow up with site supervision to ensure recommended corrective actions have been taken for all reported deficiencies at each assigned project location.
• Maintain current knowledge of applicable CEC policies and procedures.
• Provide safety guidance and feedback to project leadership at each site, including but not limited to Project Managers, APMs, site managers, Superintendents, Foremen, and team leads.
• Maintain professional relationship with the owners, safety representatives, the safety and health community in the area. and project leadership.
• Investigate and document accidents, incidents, and near misses occurring on CEC projects.  Communicate findings with the Safety Director.
• Maintain records, reports and documents that are required to meet corporate, client or regulatory requirements.
• Document findings during site visits and develop corrective action plans for observed risks at each project location.
• Support senior leadership in pre-construction activities to ensure safe execution of work across assigned projects.
• Monitor Subcontractor performance.
• Performs other duties as needed to support projects, operations, and the department.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in Occupational Safety or Health preferred.
• Recognized certification as a Safety Professional i.e., CSP, ASP, CHST, STS, CSHO-C .
• OSHA 500 & 501 and associated competent person training.
• Minimum of 3–5 years’ progressive experience in safety and health processes within the construction industry.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a safety coordinator or safety supervisory role.

Skills & Abilities

• Supports claim management and Return to Work Programs.
• Frequent travel between project sites is required, including overnight travel up to 75% of the time.
• Must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be proficient in computer skills, including but not limited to Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel.
• Bi-lingual preferred: English /Spanish.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

This job may work inside or outside with possible exposure to extreme hot or cold temperatures and weather elements in restricted or confined spaces, and on slippery or uneven surfaces. This job may have exposure to working on ladders, scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks, and other exposures typical of heavy construction. This job also operates in an office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

• Must be able to traverse and inspect all areas of jobsite in all types of weather; this may include walking, climbing reaching, bending crawling, standing, or stretching.
• The employee must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Move about on the feet regularly. Sit for extended periods of time.
• Requires the ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time.
• Requires frequent travel to multiple project sites across the division.
• Exposure to characteristic construction site dangers.
• Talk and hear, ability to communicate with others both written and orally and by telephone.
• Possess good vision, normal or corrected. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision to discern color coded wires, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 
• Possesses good hearing, normal or corrected.
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, safety vest), as needed. 
• Must be able to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week, and overtime as required and night shifts, as needed. Overtime will be compensated in accordance with applicable federal and state wage and hour laws. Must be on-call to address delays, emergencies, bad weather, and other issues at assigned jobsites.
• Must be able to work in the presence of customers and their representatives with little or no interference or disruption to the customer while maintaining a professional and courteous image.

CEC Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.