Project Safety Coordinator

Summary/Objective

The Project Safety Coordinator should be a highly motivated, hands-on team player with the ability to enforce and regulate all safety requirements to ensure a safe working environment and strive to prevent any injuries and accidents.

 

Essential Functions

• Provide day-to-day safety guidance, promote safety awareness and ensure compliance with safety and health laws, codes, regulations and standards;
• Identify conditions, actions or work practices that may cause injury, illness, property damage or potential public exposures and recommend corrective measures;
• Conduct and document weekly project specific safety inspections and daily safety walks, including general safety observations, validation of safe work practices, feedback and review with job site employees;
• Participate in field supervisor’s weekly Toolbox Talks,
• Participate and audit daily safety huddles including pre-shift stretching exercises and pre-task planning;
• Participate in subcontractor specific pre-construction meetings, review subcontractor safety plans and review the project specific safety requirements with the subcontractor;
• Attend and participate in OAC (owner, architect and contractor) progress meetings;
• Participate in OSHA consultation and compliance inspections;
• Manage and enforce subcontractor and vendor safety programs; review and monitor hot work permits, confined space entry permits and procedures, and lock-out/tag-out permits and procedures; distribute notification of approval to begin steel erection documentation; and distribute notification of acceptance of guardrail systems documentation;
• Update and maintain project specific records and safety statistics, including but not limited to: job site OSHA 300 log, job site incident rates, and first aid logs and summaries;
• Order Personal Protective Equipment, First Aid, and Safety Supplies;
• Maintain and update Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
• Develop and evaluate emergency action and evacuation plan, conduct periodic drills to ensure effectiveness and ensure crisis management plan is in place;
• Oversee job site visits and tours, escort jobsite visitors when feasible and escort all news media while onsite;
• Schedule and conduct project specific safety orientation and ongoing training as required;
• Maintain training documentation, including but not limited to: competent person designation, hoisting operators licensing requirements, forklift certifications, and other certifications as required;
• Investigate and document all incidents, ensure documentation from subcontractors if required, follow up with needed corrective actions and participate in incident reviews as required, report all incidents to safety claims administrator;
• Traverse uneven surfaces and negotiate changes in elevation while walking on a construction site in order to make visual observation of safety conditions throughout the site;
• Accompany Jaynes injured workers to appropriate medical providers and ensure that all work restrictions are understood and followed;
• Ability to travel frequently and remain eligible to operate a company vehicle or a personal vehicle for company purposes per Fleet Safety Management policy; and
• Any other duties as assigned.

 

Qualifications

• Ability to effectively communicate with and lead a diverse team, including employees, peers, customers, vendors, and business partners;
• Ability to effectively perform the assigned job duties while performing consistent, repetitive motion including but not limited to: standing, sitting, walking, climbing (stairs, ladders, etc.), bending, twisting, holding items with an extended hand(s), and lifting;
• Ability to demonstrate company's core values, operating principles and service differentiators through daily activity;
• Ability to foster an environment of teamwork and cooperation and a culture of workplace safety;
• Ability to build and enhance relations with surrounding residences and businesses to maintain an “open door” policy on communication with both field supervision and the safety department;
• Effective written, verbal, and email communication skills;
• Computer and mobile device literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality;
• Ability to work a flexible schedule;
• High School Diploma or GED;
• 5+ years of commercial construction safety experience, including at least 2 years safety leadership experience;
• Formal safety training including current OSHA 500 certification in the construction industry; and
• First Aid and CPR certification.

 

Competencies

• Focus on Safety and Compliance;
• Problem Solving and Analysis Skills;
• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility;
• Communication Proficiency;
• Time Management Skills; and
• Customer/Client Focus.

 

Supervisory Responsibility

This position serves as a coach and mentor for other employees and may have direct supervisory responsibilities.

 

Work Environment

This job operates on-site at a designated construction project and includes work in both the field and a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing some duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud. This position may be performed in outside weather conditions and the employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions.

 

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.

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak, visually observe conditions on the job site, and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, kneel, stoop, crouch, bend, crawl; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and use arms fully to reach for, handle and manipulate tools, materials, and other objects; coordinate the movements of eyes, hands and fingers; climb and maintain body balance on ladders and scaffolding; maintain safe body balance on uneven surfaces; negotiate changes in elevation while walking on a construction site, and access multiple levels of height and depth as well as access and work in confined spaces.

 

The employee must frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

 

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time, project specific, non-union position. Days and hours of work vary and may include evening and weekend hours as required.

 

Travel

Frequent travel is required for this position.

 

Required Education and Experience

High School Diploma (or GED), 5+ years of commercial construction safety experience, including at least 2 years safety leadership experience, formal safety training including current OSHA 500 certification in the construction industry, and First Aid/CPR certification required.

 

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

1. Must pass a pre-employment screen, including but not limited to: drug and alcohol screen, background check, motor vehicle records check, reference check and physical (if applicable).
2. Current and valid driver’s license in the state of permanent residence (must be insurable by Jaynes automobile insurance carrier in order to drive a Jaynes vehicle).
3. Must be eligible per Fleet Safety Management policy to operate a company vehicle or a personal vehicle for company purposes.

 

Work Authorization

Jaynes Corporation requires that all employees be legally authorized to work in the United States. Any person employed by Jaynes must complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification Form (I-9) and will be entered into the federal E-Verify system.

 

AAP/EEO Statement

All employment decisions at Jaynes are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, national, social or ethnic origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Jaynes will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

 

Benefits

Jaynes Corporation is an employee-owned company and offers an exceptional benefits package. In addition to a competitive base salary, regular full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance; a health savings account (HSA); dependent care flexible spending account (FSA); company-paid and supplemental life insurance; long term & short term disability insurance; cancer, accident & hospital indemnity coverage; retirement planning including 401k and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP); bonus plan; paid holidays; and up to 5 weeks of paid leave.

 

Additional wellness benefits include an onsite healthcare clinic for employees and their dependents, a comprehensive employee wellness program that includes financial incentives, free weekly yoga classes, an employee assistance program (EAP), and a fitness membership reimbursement program.

 

Regular part-time employees and interns are eligible for limited benefits.