Senior Safety Manager

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Summary: 

Mortenson is currently seeking a passionate Senior Safety Manager on our Energy Storage Group team with the ability to interact with a variety of staff at all levels in an ever-changing environment, remaining flexible, resourceful, proactive, and efficient with a high level of professionalism and confidentiality.  The Safety Engineer will work to implement Mortenson’s Zero Injury Safety program at a project site and ensure a safe work environment for team members, subcontractors, and visitors to the construction work site. 

Responsibilities:

In this role you will need organization, flexibility, extraordinary customer focus and strong communication are critical in performing duties which include, but are not limited to:

• Plan, lead and manage the implementation of delegated Zero Injury Safety Program elements and initiatives throughout the operating group. Lead and support safety program collaboration across multiple different organizations, such as trade partners and joint-venture partners. 
• Support company level initiatives through direct effort contribution. 
• Take safety leadership for specific region or specialty operation within operating group, acting as a partner to operating group safety director
• Conduct and review site hazard assessments with project management during planning and construction phases. 
• Develop operating group specific safety orientation content for use across projects. 
• Identify training needs, develop, schedule, and conduct safety training, including train-the-trainer sessions. 
• Develop, implement, and lead group and project training and orientation. 
• Oversee project documentation, tracking and analysis of all Safety, Injury and Hazard statistics, trend analyses, and OSHA reports. Direct and lead project management in development and follow through on improvement action plans as necessary. 
• Monitor onsite construction activities through audits and observations. Document deficiencies and corrective actions.
• Audit, assess and report on group-wide execution of leading performance deliverables. 
• Lead incident reporting, investigation, and analysis. 
• Coach safety managers in high-risk plan review 
• Collaborate with Risk Management department
• Review project work plans to ensure safety is adequately incorporated.
• Participate in and contribute to project planning and hazard analysis. 
• Provide professional direction and mentorship to Safety staff.
• Mentor operating group safety engineers and managers, work with managers to provide development opportunities, delegate assignments in order to further growth, host development and learning sessions for safety and others in the operating group 
• Take safety leadership for specific region or specialty operation within operating group, acting as a partner to operating group safety director 
• Provide technical assistance to project teams, senior executive leadership and safety engineers. 
• Maintain operational knowledge of construction safety, OSHA, ANSI, and other applicable standards, regulations, and procedures. 
• Act as resource for safety issues or concerns to all project team members and operating group management. 
• Attend and/or lead safety meetings. 
• Support operating group safety director and safety leadership team in achieving and maintaining operating group safety performance metrics. 
• Contribute in the annual review process of operating group safety engineers/managers as requested. 

Other duties as assigned

• Effectively work and build relationships with those of diverse backgrounds and organizational levels. 
• Assist in incident response for operating group / organization as needed 
• Lead team members by example, offer effective coaching and feedback, and effectively manage performance. 
• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Organizational and computer skills sufficient to offer management support to multiple project teams, acting as regional/market safety lead within an operating group where appropriate 
• Shown positive and professional attitude, and strong customer service skills
• Ability to interpret and communicate Mortenson policies 
• Effective public speaking and presentation skills 
• Strong teamwork orientation, in