Safety Manager

JOB SUMMARY

The Safety Manager role provides safety leadership, guidance, and support to the Georgia operations to help minimize the potential for employee injury, property damage, and third-party liabilities resulting from incidents. The position reports to the Corporate Safety Director and key expectations for the position include evaluating, developing, planning, directing, training, and implementing safety initiatives throughout the Georgia operations. These initiatives are expected to result in continuous improvement of McKenney’s Safety process. This position requires a strong leader with high energy who actively searches, creatively designs, and implements effective initiatives to support the vision of achieving a Zero Incident Culture. 

Essential Functions

 Key expectations of the role include the following:

• Evaluate business processes, work tasks, historical incident rates, root cause analyses and critical needs of Profit Center/Departments to design, execute, and manage incident reduction projects to help achieve McKenney’s vision of a Zero Incident Culture. These projects will be designed with the Safety Director and executed in partnership with the Senior Vice President of the Georgia Division, Georgia’s Field Operations Team, and the Corporate Safety Director.
• Manage and monitor projects by tracking action items and outcomes, and providing regular reports to the Safety Director and Georgia leaders. Prepare and report in a roll-up format, monthly injury, and risk metrics, including employee safety statistics, safety training status, safety audits, and regulatory compliance issues. 
• Develop strong and trusting relationships with all Profit Center/Department Leaders and organization safety leaders through regular face-to-face meetings and communications on safety progress.
• Conduct root cause analysis reports on all job site injuries, ensuring follow-up corrective actions have been taken to help prevent future injuries.
• Coordinate and help administrate effective McKenney’s new hire orientation safety training programs relative to specific jobs. These programs will include, but are not limited to hoisting & rigging, ergonomics, fire prevention, safe handling of chemicals, personal protective equipment, general electrical safety, lock out tag out, fall protection, machine guarding, scaffolding, confined space, asbestos program, fall protection, etc.
• Plan and facilitate the implementation of safety policies and procedures in compliance with local, state, and OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) rules and regulations.
• Serve as a technical advisor by providing research and support on safety challenges for Profit Centers/Departments.
• Conduct and coordinate safety and housekeeping inspections for all active worksites to detect existing or potential injury risks or hazards, determine corrective or preventative measures, and track corrective actions.
• Provide support managing all OSHA and Workers' Compensation reporting and record-keeping with the Corporate Safety Director.
• Notify the Director of Safety and Profit Center/Department Leadership of situations that are immediately dangerous to the life and health of employees (or are recurring life-threatening behaviors/conditions).
• Perform other duties as directed by the Safety Director or McKenney’s senior leadership.

Competencies

1. Leadership.
2. High Energy Level.
3. Technical Knowledge.
4. Communication Proficiency.
5. Advanced Platform Skills.
6. Organizational Skills.
7. Initiative.
8. Flexibility.
9. Thoroughness.
10. Time Management.

Supervisory Responsibility

 This position may involve supervisory responsibility for a technical assistant.

Work Environment

 This job is based at McKenney’s Atlanta office and includes work at job sites and third-party locations (e.g., general contractor’s offices, conferences, etc.).

Field/Office Balance:

• 60% of time allocated to working at job sites, based on job size and hazard profile, to provide support in hazard assessment, training, and guidance to site leadership in the implementation of injury prevention tactics.
• 40% in the office forging leadership relationships, participating in project planning and review meetings, and leading the Atlanta Safety Coalition and related initiatives. Limited/occasional weekend work may be required based on Profit Center/Department demands.

Physical Demands

 The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Conduct follow-up studies of all completed training to evaluate and measure results.

Required Education and Experience

1. Minimum of 5 years in applied safety training functions in the construction industry. Specific mechanical contractor trade experience is a plus.
2. Knowledge of OSHA, NIOSH, and DOT
3. Completion of coursework/certificate programs in construction safety
4. OSHA 500 minimum training credentials – additional training credentials preferred
5. Work towards any professional certifications such as CSP (Certified Safety Professional), ARM, ALCH, CHST or CIH a plus
6. Strong knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel & Outlook

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. The days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with occasional after-hours and weekend work.

Travel

Moderate travel (range between 25%-50%) is expected for this position across the Georgia and Carolina offices.

Moving Safety Forward, our initiative for continuous improvements in our safety culture, reminds us that we are on a journey toward a zero-incident culture. In all we do, we must work to build a partnership with our employees, customers and business associates that empowers them all with the ability to do their jobs safely.

McKenney’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity. Qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to age, color, religion, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or gender identity. McKenney’s is a smoke-free and drug-free workplace.