Safety Manager - Brent Spence Bridge Project

Kokosing (www.kokosing.biz) is one of America's 40 largest General Contractors and services a broad spectrum of clients in both the private and public business sectors. Kokosing's services include heavy civil/industrial construction such as highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. For over 70 years, Kokosing has successfully attracted the most qualified technical personnel in the construction industry by offering visible challenges, superior quality, and attractive rewards. With over $2.8 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is the winning team.

Job Description:

We are currently hiring multiple safety professionals to support two high-profile projects in the Cincinnati, OH area: Brent Spence Bridge and Western Hills Viaduct.  These roles will help with operational safety performance and will lead other safety professionals in the field with the support of the project management team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and Monitor: Coach, implement, and monitor the Company Safety and Health Program at assigned location or locations. Lead and manage the company’s efforts to meet regulatory compliance as outlined in the Company’s Safety and Health Management System.  Champion the implementation of the Company’s behavioral based program – Safety 24/7.  

• Operational Leadership: Serve as both a hands-on contributor and a leader, actively engaging in daily operations while guiding and supporting safety staff. Balance technical expertise with strong interpersonal skills to promote teamwork and collaboration, ensuring that safety practices are effectively and consistently integrated.  Drive continuous improvement initiatives across their area of influence. 

• Team Leadership: Supervise, mentor, and manage safety staff to ensure the effective application of the Safety and Health Management System. Build a collaborative and supportive environment that encourages continuous learning, development, and leadership among safety staff. Provide clear direction, set expectations, and ensure accountability, empowering the safety staff to take ownership of their roles while driving overall safety performance.

• Audits and Inspections: Ensure safety staff initiates, performs, and documents safety and health audits, inspections and safety conversations. Provide coaching to safety staff and operations managers to communicate and support the implementation of corrective and preventative actions. Facilitate operations’ involvement with the safety and health audit, inspection, and conversation processes.

• Incident Investigation and Analysis: Lead in investigating injury, illness, and general liability incidents, and is involved with the creation of strategies to reduce future occurrences.  Coach safety staff and ensure quality and timely investigation, analysis and coding of workers’ compensation and general liability incidents into the company’s data management system.  Work closely with safety staff to ensure there is partnership with operations managers that has a positive impact on future results.

• Mitigation Strategies: Partner with operations managers to develop and execute strategies targeted at reducing injuries, illnesses, and incidents, ensuring the achievement of business objectives.

• Process Adjustments: Propose and support the implementation of process improvements based on analysis of safety performance data to enhance the effectiveness of our safety and health management system and provide leadership to safety staff to do the same.

• Data Analysis: Analyze safety data from audits, inspections, conversations, incidents, and training to provide insights to operations management to support continuous improvement.

• Training and Communication: Based on upcoming operations, ensure safety staff identifies, initiates, coordinates and leads safety meetings and training programs to communicate company policies and distribute safety correspondence. Provide guidance to safety staff to examine incident trends and inspection data to recommend training solutions. Work with the operations managers at the projects, facilities, or regions to share knowledge and leverage best practices.

• Policy and Training Development: Collaborate with Safety Director or Company Safety Manager, and VP of Safety to assist with the development, organization, and implementation of safety policies, procedures, and trainings that facilitate the advancement of the Company’s Safety and Health Management System.

• Safety Program Coordination: Coach safety staff and provide leadership of project safety programs with subcontractors, vendors, and third-part