Director Engineering & Construction Safety

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Project Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director Engineering & Construction Safety to be located in New Brunswick, NJ.

At Engineering & Property Services (E&PS) we look after all J&J buildings around the world providing end-to-end services from Real Estate, Engineering & Strategic Project Delivery to Facilities Management. We have a profound influence on the entire J&J Enterprise, providing innovative workplaces where our employees can collaborate and grow, and delivering flexible site solutions which enable our business to best serve our customers and patients.

The E&PS Project Delivery Team is looking for a motivated and organized individual to lead the development & deployment of effective and efficient safety management strategy & tactical activities. This includes iterations to standards, guidelines, supporting digital tools, capability building and performance monitoring to drive continuous improvement and reduce operational risk. This is a global impact role, collaborating with the regional and field safety teams and the project delivery group, working with data intelligence teams to turn data into intelligence for the business and creating the key program elements to drive safety in the construction projects.
 

The Director Engineering & Construction Safety is responsible for deploying comprehensive construction safety standard methodologies and tactics to ensure safe work practices on all projects throughout project construction, verification, and commissioning to operational handover. This role will report directly to the Senior Director, Engineering and Construction Safety Center of Excellence (COE).

A suitable candidate will have strong understanding and technical specialization in engineering design, construction safety to recognize and control risks potentially posed by all activities and related works in the construction and renovation of manufacturing sites, warehouses, office buildings, and laboratories.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop programs, standards/guidelines, tools and mechanisms with associated training materials for improving safety performance and SIF prevention aligned with J&J Standards.
• Identify management system gaps and prioritize needs according to the architecture elements of Leadership, Planning, Support, Operational Controls, Performance Management, and Continuous Improvement.
• Prepare regular performance presentations and information for PD Leaders to have clear read on how they are performing. Develop dashboards to track the overall health of our CS programs and reports for actionable insights.
• Lead the monthly global construction safety team meetings to performance monitoring, drive & sustain safety culture and alignment with pivotal safety programs.
• Collaboration with EH&S SME’s to ensure that design and construction best practices are embedded within Enterprise EHS Standards, in support of both capital projects and safely sustaining construction related activity in operations.
• Support streamlining and automation of construction safety processes through the implementation of digital solutions.
• Deploy CS standards across project sites to assure compliance with health & safety laws and J&J standards, proactive risk management on construction projects and ensure all who come to work on our sites return home safe every day.
• Ensure standards are communicated to all construction safety partners and their subcontractors.
• Conducts safety trainings on application of standards and use of CS related tools (e.g., templates, digital tools).
• Support the Regional Safety & Project Safety Team (Safety DRI (Direct Responsibly Individuals) in deployment of standards, programs, technical support and capability building.
• Accelerate shift to Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)/psychosocial