Safety Operations Program Specialist - East

Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero in the global energy transition. We are a trusted, full-service partner to public sector and government entities, K-12 schools, higher education, utilities, and healthcare customers across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Europe. 

At Ameresco, we show the way by developing, constructing and operating tailored smart energy efficiency solutions, distributed energy resources, and infrastructure upgrades that drive cost savings, resilience, decarbonization, and innovation. Our comprehensive portfolio is built to address the challenges of today and adapt the future, ensuring long-term sustainability and success for our customers.

The Corporate Safety Operations Program Specialist will support the Ameresco Office of Safety & Risk Management by managing the operational infrastructure, systems, reporting, documentation, compliance tracking, and program coordination necessary to support Ameresco's safety program for our Eastern US based safety teams. NOTE: Preference will be given to candidates who reside within the Eastern US region.

Responsibilities:

• Provide enterprise-level safety operations and program support to the Vice President of Safety & Risk Management and Ameresco business units, coordinating priorities across the eastern region safety teams.

• Maintain department trackers, action-item registers, and compliance schedules for safety initiatives, program deliverables, audit findings, corrective actions, training requirements, document reviews, and reporting deadlines.

• Collaborate with Regional Safety Managers, business-unit leaders, project teams, and the counterpart Corporate Safety Operations Specialist to maintain consistent safety support, communication, and coverage across the organization.

• Provide program and administrative support for Vector Solutions EHS and LMS, including user access, organizational structure, employee and project assignments, data integrity, system workflows, and continuous improvement.

• Coordinate safety training matrices, course assignments, completion tracking, certification expirations, refresher requirements, missing records, and training-compliance reporting.

• Collect, organize, analyze, and maintain safety performance data and prepare dashboards, scorecards, trend analyses, executive summaries, presentations, and weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.

• Maintain document control for corporate safety manuals, programs, procedures, templates, forms, Site-Specific Safety Plans, Job Hazard Analyses, Activity Hazard Analyses, emergency plans, training documents, and related safety records.

• Support business units and project teams during project startup, ongoing operations, and project closeout by helping ensure required safety documentation is complete, current, properly approved, accessible, and aligned with corporate standards.

• Support the tracking and organization of incident reports, near misses, first-aid cases, recordable injuries, vehicle incidents, property damage, environmental events, investigation materials, photographs, statements, and related records.

• Track corrective actions resulting from incidents, inspections, audits, client reviews, and safety findings; follow up with responsible parties and assist with lessons learned, safety alerts, and closure-status reporting.

• Support subcontractor safety prequalification, onboarding, training documentation, safety plans, project-specific submittals, compliance tracking, audit findings, corrective actions, and closeout records.

• Coordinate safety meetings and leadership reviews; prepare agendas, meeting minutes, decisions, follow-up assignments, safety communications, reminders, department updates, and leadership summaries.

• Perform other duties as assigned, including but not limited to supporting improvements to safety workflows, reporting methods, digital workspaces, templates, systems, and standardized department processes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health and safety, business administration, construction management or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in safety operations, environmental health and safety, safety program management, construction safety, compliance management, risk management, or a related operational role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in construction, renewable energy, solar, battery energy storage systems, utilities, federal contra