Director of Safety

Sellen's Director of Safety defines the standards, measures, and means for safe work at Sellen. This role leads, influences, and builds shared commitments to improve the health and safety of work. The Director of Safety is responsible for establishing the priorities, focus, necessary controls, policies, and operational standards for the Safety department and oversees the effective implementation and management of safety programs, policies, communication efforts, reporting, administration, and accident prevention.

Essential Responsibilities:

Leadership::

• Leads initiatives that create an exceptional culture of safety where all employees and subcontractors are empowered to identify safety improvement opportunities as well as the ability to "stop the line" when appropriate.
• Leads the investigation of accidents and near misses, perform root cause analysis, and engage others in learning and implementing corrective and preventative measures.
• Provides strategic ROI analysis for safety initiatives, manages recommendations, reviews, and approves metrics.
• Serves as a visible and engaged leader that energizes and communicates effectively with craftspeople, superintendents, and executive leadership.
• Leads and participates in the development and implementation of construction safety measurement strategy.
• Oversee the development and delivery of communication, training, and programs that communicate culture, values, and guidance for all employees in performing safe work.
• Has a proactive orientation to safety and recognizes the value of controls to avoid accidents and injury
• Serve as a primary point of contact to agencies and assist safety managers with agency inspections, audits, or investigations. Collaborate with Risk Management in performing regulatory filings, postings, and coordination with agencies.

Partnership:

• Fosters relationships with superintendents to inspire, motivate and lead a culture of Safety within the organization.
• Partners with COO and Sellen executives, Superintendents, site leadership and safety teams to ensure that organizational wide safety initiatives are rolled out effectively and risk reduction strategies implemented wherever appropriate while engaging stakeholders in the process.
• Creates and maintains a strong partnership Risk, and other functions, to ensure system-wide goals and objectives are successfully achieved.
• Conducts regular reviews of Sellen's safety performance in partnership with COO, executives, quality, and field leadership, providing expectations, performance planning, feedback, training, development and performance discussions; defining future state requirements for operations and ensures the implementation of strategies and initiatives to effectively meet or exceed business and patient expectations.
• Works closely with the leadership team to establish standards and measures. Builds relationships with relevant stakeholders to manage effective processes and programs to improve safety and ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with field leadership, risk management, and others to implement, measure, and improve safety practices including Sellen's Accident Prevention Program.

Operations management:

• Establishes responsibilities, controls, policy, and processes that mitigate risks of injury or hazard and that promote a safe and healthy workplace.
• Develop Sellen's Accident Prevention Plan and related resources to meet requirements.
• Has experience analyzing data from a variety of disparate sources to identify relevant insights that will inform decision making and help direct safety strategy.
• Manages safety improvements through standardization, risk mitigation plans, and implementation of best practices impacting construction methods and project management practices.
• Develops and annually reviews the Accident Prevention Plan and identifies focused programs and improvements based on internal needs and external requirements and standards.
• Manages the risks to health and safety and build both reactive and proactive measures to address those risks.
• Establishes and communicates priorities and performance objectives for the Safety team.
• Develops and maintains a departmental work plan and oversee the development and implementation of safety policies, campaigns, and initiatives.
• Coordinates with the Safety team to produce accurate and timely safety documentation and reports used by the business.

Safety Team leadership:

• Hires and develops members of the Safety team to oversee jobsite safety, demonstrate Sellen's values, and possess a working knowledge of safe workplaces specific to all phases of commercial construction.
• Collaborates with field operations to identify and put into place effective staffing solutions for jobsite safety.
• Manages, coaches, and mentors Safety team members ensuring that the roles and responsibilities of the department are supporting the project needs.
• Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• ·Bachelor's Degree in a construction management or safety-related fields or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

AND

• 8+ years of leadership experience in commercial construction.
• 8+ years of experience in applying jobsite safety practices.
• 5+ years working with senior leadership implementing business strategy.

KNOWLEDGE

• Expertise in construction related means and methods.
• Regulatory and administrative requirements pertaining to safety and risk management.
• Strong safety leadership skill sets and statistical-based accident analysis.

SKILLS

• Demonstrated experience with predictifve analytics
• Problem-solving skills and ability to deal with confrontation and come to resolution.
• Strong prioritization, decision-making, and delegation skills.
• Communication skills:
• Exceptional verbal communication and customer service skills.
• Outstanding written communication.

ABILITIES

• Maintain the highest level of professionalism and confidentiality.
• Communicate comfortably and effectively with diverse groups of people.
• Flexible, adaptable, and capable of facing all types of situations including setbacks, challenges, failures, coaching, and mentoring.
• Manage assignments, expectations, delivery from individuals on the Safety team.
• Work collaboratively and lead effectively on teams where there is ambiguity and uncertain outcomes.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• Operate office equipment.
• Communicate and express ideas and exchange accurate information.
• Regularly move about the office/job site environment and meet with other people.