About Us:
S.A. Comunale has been a local industry leader for end-to-end mechanical, fire protection and HVAC services for nearly 100 years.
We offer our clients significant financial strength, unmatched bonding capability, an award-winning safety program, and large-scale purchasing power.
With 15 locations and over 1,250 employees, including 600 skilled tradesmen throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and West Virginia, S.A. Comunale can work in virtually every market sector and facility type.
Job Title: Director of Safety
Under the direction of the Chief Financial Officer, the Director of Safety is responsible for the safety of the employees on all work sites. This position works closely with Project Managers, field manpower, and the Executive Management Team to ensure all in compliance with OSHA and EPA standards.
This job requires the ability and desire to work in a fast-paced multi-tasked environment with a focus on specific safety practices and health programs. It also requires travel to branch office locations, jobsites and customer facilities
Essential Duties / Responsibilities:
- Responsible for maintaining, updating, and implementing safety programs that incorporate required OSHA trainings.
- Responsible for ensuring accurate and timely recordkeeping of all safety programs and trainings.
- Chair all Safety Committee meetings within the organization.
- Inspect, implement and monitor all work sites to ensure compliance with OSHA and EPA standards.
- Interface with regulatory bodies (OSHA, EPA, and State/Local Regulators).
- Provide advice, support, training, and reporting to all levels of management and workforce to achieve HSE objectives and maintain compliance.
- Ensure that the company is in compliance with local, state, and federal workplace environmental health and safety regulations.
- Monitor and participate in accident investigations to ensure root-cause analysis is appropriately conducted and corrective action implemented.
- Serve as corporate expert on specific safety and health programs.
- Manage the site-specific safety program to ensure a safe environment for all employees working on all jobsites.
- Drive and promote zero incidents through HSE culture.
- Track, validate and summarize health and safety performance throughout the company.
- Have a complete understanding of claims management and workers’ compensation reporting requirements.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time to conduct job site visits.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Safety Manager is responsible for directly supervising all safety department staff.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below 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.
- High school diploma or GED is required.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Safety & Health, EH&S Management or related field is required.
- 7+ years’ safety experience is required.
- Experience in the EHS Construction industry a plus.
- Must hold an OSHA Outreach Instructor Certification for Construction or ability to obtain certification within 3 months of assuming this role required.
- ASP certification is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of fundamentals of construction safety, accident prevention, occupational injury, human factors, industry safety criteria, risk management and incident investigation techniques and methods required.
- Professional certification from BCSP, or other safety certifications is a plus.
- Strong verbal skills which influence, lead, and coach others within the organization required.
- Significant experience with Microsoft Office (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint) applications. Demonstration of a positive attitude is required.
- Ability to deal with fraught situations in a professional manner is required.
- Ability to think strategically, make sound decisions, and produce accurate and timely results is required.
- Building positive working relationships with multiple levels of employees and management is required.
- Demonstrating integrity and professionalism is required.
- Demonstrating commitment to company values is required.
- Excellent organizational skills are required.
- Ability to follow-up on tasks and assignments in a timely manner is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills are required.
- Ability to perform basic business mathematical functions is required.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision is required.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment is required.
- Complying with all operating policies, procedures, executed Plans, and Programs is required.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Must have the demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, cooperate, and collaborate with multiple levels of employees, government agencies, customers, vendors, and suppliers.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, see, talk, and hear. The employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is regularly required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The physical strength rating is classified as medium work which entails exerting 20-50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10-25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Environmental conditions of this position are extremely wide ranging including inside, outside, extreme hot, extreme cold, fumes, odors, toxic conditions, dust poor ventilation, hazards, humid, loud noises, vibrations, and wet. This position frequently requires protective equipment for eyes, feet, head, and occasionally for arm, hearing, full body, leg, respirator, and skin. The employee will need to understand simple math, shop math, technical reports, technical instructions, business letters, and simple memos. Writing or presenting summaries, business letters, formal presentations, and simple memos is required. Operation of a computer, hand tools (manual and power), a telephone, headphone, and a hand calculator are required. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to commute to customer and company locations by land and air.
We offer our employees a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package and are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Experience
Required- Strong verbal skills which influence, lead, and coach others within the organization required
- Strong knowledge of fundamentals of construction safety, accident prevention, occupational injury, human factors, industry safety criteria, risk management and incident investigation techniques and methods required.
- Bachelors Degree in Safety & Health
- 7 year(s): Safety Experience
Behaviors
Required- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
- Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
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