Assistant Safety Director

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:

Works directly with the company’s leadership, supervision and trade personnel to implement the company’s Safety and Health Management System (SHMS).  The position provides leadership to guide safety and operations managers in setting and achieving strategic safety objectives, ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous improvement aligned with the company’s core values, SHMS and the Company’s behavioral based program – Safety 24/7.  

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 safety staff personnel, and provide direction, guidance and support to the company’s efforts to meet regulatory compliance as outlined in the Company’s Safety and Health Management System and the effective 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.
• Safety Program Leadership: Partner with the company Safety Director and VP of Safety in planning and executing all functional safety initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and strategies.  Collaborate with operational leadership to implement long-term safety goals, strategies, and risk management plans.  
• 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 and leadership with the safety and health audit, inspection, and conversation processes.
• Incident Investigation and Analysis: Provide guidance and support to the investigation or injury, illness, and general liability incidents, ensuring the implementation 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. Facilitate operational ownership and leadership of the incident review process that has a positive impact on future results.
• Mitigation Strategies: Analyze safety data from assessments, audits, inspections, conversations and incidents, to identify systemic issues and trends, potential risks, and opportunities for improvement to operations management. Partner with Company Safety Director, VP of Safety, and Operations Management  to develop and execute strategies targeted at reducing injuries, illnesses, and incidents, ensuring the achievement of business objectives. Look for opportunities to share successful approaches with other locations.

• Process Adjustments: Propose and drive 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 and operational managers to do the same.

• 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