Traveling Project Safety Manager (United States)

This position is a full-time traveling assignment that supports projects across the United States within a variety of high-impact market segments, including Aviation, Data Center, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Industrial/Manufacturing, and Electric Vehicle (EV)/Battery/Renewables sectors. The employer is a leading construction company known for managing complex, large-scale projects across diverse industries. The company prioritizes safety, quality, and compliance, and is committed to hiring professionals who share this dedication to excellence and regulatory adherence. This role offers an exciting opportunity for professionals experienced in Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) to work on multiple projects nationally, contributing to safer workplace environments and regulatory compliance on various construction sites.

The role focuses on partnering with EH&S and project teams to enforce site compliance with corporate EH&S programs, policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements on individual construction projects within the assigned business unit's geographic area. The key function of this position is to lead and direct all aspects of Environmental Health and Safety on a single construction project, based on safety staffing requirements laid out by Headquarters EH&S policies. The EH&S professional in this role will be responsible for managing time and resource allocation while providing leadership on safety issues to the assigned project team. Additionally, this position demands active assessment of the project’s safety practices, identification of safety risks and exposures, and the development and implementation of action plans to mitigate such risks.

A significant portion of the job involves communicating safety requirements and performance improvements to project leadership and teams, utilizing project-specific safety standards, best management practices, and EH&S policies and procedures. The position demands a proactive approach to understanding safety trends onsite and contributing toward efforts to reduce incident rates to meet or exceed established business unit goals. Another important aspect is the development and delivery of training programs tailored to the project site-specific needs, aimed at educating project management, employees, subcontractors, and company personnel on EH&S policies, procedures, and safe work practices. This training function supports the promotion and enforcement of safe work environments compliant with company and federal, state, and local regulations, as well as contractual obligations related to owners.

The professional is expected to maintain and enhance effective working relationships with project staff and subcontractor safety representatives, fostering collaboration to support overall safety on site. Responsibilities further extend to the development and enforcement of project-specific safety programs and related policies, ensuring unsafe actions and conditions are swiftly corrected in compliance with company, federal, state, local, and owner requirements. The role also involves holding preconstruction planning meetings with subcontractors to review their safety programs and job hazard analyses to establish risk mitigation plans. The position requires vigilance in verifying subcontractor training according to OSHA standards and conducting worker orientation programs for new employees, guaranteeing thorough documentation and participation.

In partnership with project leadership, the role includes the creation of project-specific safety reports, the assessment of safety metrics, and the recommendation of improvements to baseline performance. The EH&S professional must ensure the timely logging of subcontractors’ toolbox safety meetings and conduct thorough safety audits of project teams, including the issuance and prompt resolution of any violations or unsafe practices reported. In summary, this full-time role is ideal for a dedicated safety professional with broad sector experience who is committed to advancing safety cultures on construction projects while ensuring regulatory compliance and fostering collaboration across project teams.