Director of Occupational Health & Safety

• Leads development of and clearly articulates CWC's health and safety vision, objectives, strategies, policies, and procedures to build a health and safety culture which lead to best-in-class results.
• Leads and manages Health and Safety Department personnel to achieve a high performance, customer-oriented work team, through hiring, motivating, coaching, appraising, creating accountability, and resolving issues related to staff.
• Provides proactive leadership by anticipating problems, providing solutions, sharing knowledge, and providing training as needed.
• Interacts with CWC personnel, clients, subcontractors, and inspectors to ensure teams are operating in accordance with CWC policies and programs and contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Develop, analyze, and maintain safety performance metrics that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely.
• Participate in the review of CWC's Subcontractor Default Insurance program health and safety submittals. Assist with evaluation and assessment of health and safety programs of subcontractors including performance on past projects.
• Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current initiatives and monitors results to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Ensures health and safety training criteria meets the needs of internal and external (CWC, client & regulating entities) requirements. Success is measured by understanding and execution of training principles.
• Develop and manage personnel training and certifications, keeping up to date records for expirations, reporting, and actively tracking/setting up training for new employees and those with expiring certifications.
• Leads incident investigations, ensures participation in the incident review process, and disseminates lessons learned to appropriate stakeholders.
• Manages hazard assessment activities to ensure projects are properly planned and coordinated to achieve project schedule timelines while maintaining health and safety performance expectations.
• Develops annual plans & budgets for health and safety initiatives.
• Leads the Corporate Safety Committee.
• Actively participates in industry organizations at board or committee level; represent the Company at networking functions, career fairs, trade shows, etc.
• Integrate technology and software solutions into all health and safety management practices as appropriate.

Minimum of 40 hours per week required. Works hours will vary depending on project requirements, and may involve weekends and night work. Up to 75% travel to different job sites required.

Additional Note

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work required. They are not exhaustive lists of all duties and responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, physical job demands and working conditions associated with the job. Successful candidate will seek additional duties to master.