Safety Manager

Company Overview:

Here at Fortis and throughout our family of brands, we value our employees and offer competitive benefits which include:

• 2 weeks of paid vacation
• 1 week of paid sick time
• 10 Company Paid Holidays
• Other paid time off (jury duty, bereavement)
• Competitive pay
• 401k with company match
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Company-paid Short-term Disability
• Supplemental Long-term Disability and Life Insurance Packages
• Legal Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Career Advancement Opportunities

Job Summary:

The Safety Manager is responsible for developing strategies for effective environmental, health, safety and security programs for the company. The role includes strategic and tactical leadership of EHS management systems, EHS regulations, and industry best practices. Primary responsibilities include management of environmental, health, and safety requirements for Fortis to build a strong safety and health culture, ensure compliance, reduce costs, and maintain consistency.

This position is responsible for training and developing leaders and employees in good safety practices and required EHS topics to improve EHS performance. Serves as the primary contact for EHS-related government agencies (i.e., OSHA, EPA, DOT, state agencies). 

Key Responsibilities:

• Champion and develop a "World-Class" injury-free safety culture with support of leadership.
• Develop, implement, and direct safety training programs, policies, and procedures. Monitor compliance of training and record keeping.
• Survey, compile, analyze, and report data relating to occupational and environmental health issues which are known or suspected of being real or potential detriments to health including chemical exposure, radiation, smoke, fumes, noise, temperatures, dusts, vapors, mists, gases, solvents, natural disasters (earthquake,, flooding, lightning), and ergonomics.
• Recommend and implement control measures for exposure to hazardous materials or conditions.
• Update existing EH&S programs, policies, and procedures.
• Manage all federal, state, and local environmental programs and permits (if needed) and ensure compliance. Acts as company representative with government agencies in environmental, safety, and health matters affecting the company.
• Establish and maintain EH&S goals, metrics, record keeping, and communications.
• Provide guidance for workers’ compensation, property and general liability claims management.
• Guide incident review process and perform incident trend analysis for hazard prevention and control.
• Recommend and implement Safety Committee structure across the company (Corp, Regional, local). Provide leadership to committee(s) as appropriate.
• Identify safety improvement projects and coordinate cross functional resources to complete projects and mitigate risks.
• Develops and implements a program and system to track and evaluate worker injuries. Partners with HR to actively evaluate and manage work-related injuries.
• Conduct accident reviews and investigate root causes to identify short and long-term corrective actions as necessary. Ensure corrective actions are completed timely.
• Lead, initiate, and manage continuous improvement process in environmental, health and safety areas.
• Review individual incident data and historical trending data with plant management to keep informed and prioritize activity.
• Manage EH&S vendors, expenses, & budget.
• Must wear PPE as required based on job duties.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• Supervises Regional Safety Coordinators
• The EHS Manager will have broad knowledge of safety, environmental, and employee health topics.
• Must possess a high degree of personal integrity, must be able to multi-task, safety conscious, and a good team player.
• Ability to effectively communicate with employees and management throughout the organization
• Coaching, facilitating, and training skills
• Strong problem-solving techniques and project management skills
• Understanding of business issues, metrics and organizational linkages
• Ability to challenge the organization in a way that maintains trust and respect
• Self-confident, ability to accept and respond to feedback and challenges in a positive manner
• Demonstrated high energy, passion for excellence, bias for action, adaptability
• Self-starter, capable of working with minimal direct supervision
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering or other safety-related disciplines.
• 5-10 years of relevant EHS/Safety experience.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a safety leadership role.
• Must have thorough knowledge and experience with federal, state and local EHS regulations, OSHA etc.
• Experience in the evaluation, development, and implementation of safety programs
• Travel required for this position.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize, evaluate, and recommend controls for workplace hazards
• Demonstrated ability to determine training needs; organize and/or conduct training
• Strong experience driving safety behaviors through cultural behavior change.
• Effective public speaker, facilitator, trainer, and problem solver.
• Comfortable working in a cross-functional matrix organization.
• Be capable of working in and promoting a team environment.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business documents, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.
• Able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistics.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in the Fire Safety or Construction industry
• American Red Cross certified in Preventing Disease Transmission, Blood borne Pathogens, adult CPR and First Aid Certified (responsible for maintaining certifications)
• One or more of the following certifications: ASP, CSP, CHST, OHST

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Safety Requirements:

All employees are expected to carry out their work functions in a healthy and safe manner, to encourage and support safe work practices at all times, and to report and/or rectify any unsafe conditions that may come to their attention immediately.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and climb stairs, or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Compensation:

$110,000 - $130,000 depending on experience

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Fortis Fire & Safety Inc. is an EEO Employer. We select people on the basis of skill, training, ability, attitude, and character without discrimination with regard to age, sex, color, race, creed, national origin, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, or a disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions.