Field Safety Engineer

The Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Specialist - Construction supports the implementation of health, manufacturing, and construction safety policies. They support the EHS Manager - Construction in assuring local, state and federal safety regulations are adhered to CP and sub-contractor personnel and facilitate the creation and operation of various construction safety programs. The EHS Specialist will focus on behavior-based safety and audit strategies to create a system that not only increases employee and management buy-in of plant safety, but also increases productivity and efficiency.

Welcome to Clark Pacific. Let's do great things together!

Core Values:

• Determination: Meet challenges head on!
• Innovation: Always look for better!
• Well-Being: Seek the success, health and happiness of all!

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, being paid on a weekly basis.
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance with the options of using Kaiser and VSP for vision!
• Medical FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• Employer paid life insurance paid by Clark Pacific
• Voluntary Ancillary Benefits such as Critical Illness, Accident Insurance and Whole life insurance.
• 401k matching 100% of the first 3%, then 50% of the next 2%
• Membership to our local gym

General Summary

• The Field Safety Engineer is responsible for implementing CP's EHS safety policies and procedures in concert with the EHS Manager. This is an autonomous role providing project teams leading indicator observations including the acknowledgement of favorable behaviors and identifying specific hazards on project sites, developing strategies to minimize risk, and communicating specific strategies with the project teams and subcontractors. This role is responsible for facilitating continuous improvement in the Company's safety culture, performance, policies, and practices. This includes ensuring the Company is using best practices, bringing innovation to processes, work, and systems, and incorporating new ideas from other industries into the Company's approach.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Assisting the EHS Manager -Construction in the development of and clearly articulating and implementing the Company's safety vision, philosophy, objectives, strategies, policies, and procedures to build a safety culture dedicated to behaviors which lead to industry leading results.
• Initiate Observations and analyzing jobsites and project plans to help anticipate problems & provide solutions.
• Initiate and lead in the documentation and support the development of the SSSP and other key project programs.
• Assist and lead the coordination and perform the training to all levels of management, field staff, preconstruction, and project teams as necessary.
• Interacting with internal self-perform stakeholders, clients, subcontractors, and inspectors as a team player to build a strong safety culture.
• Constantly engaging with CP's field workers and project teams including subcontractors, to build an interactive relationship.
• Advising, educating, consulting, recommending, and proposing safety solutions to the superintendent and project manager.
• Proactively planning and executing the safety solutions with the strategies based on leading indicators.
• Effectively providing safety performance evaluation based on analytical data sourced from both leading and lagging indicators
• Effectively integrating field safety in many approaches Risk based critical thinking, behavioral safety, cultural safety, circumstantial/situational safety, compliance perspective, etc.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions and conclusions, and monitors results to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Leads project site incident investigations.
• Managing hazard assessment activities by conducting and/or supervising safety inspections and analyzing inspection and incident data to identify opportunities to develop preventive and corrective practices.
• Inspecting active project sites to evaluate ongoing work conditions to support employee safety and guarantee compliance.

Key Interfaces

Internal

• Clark Pacific Construction/Field teams
• Human Resources Business Partners

External

• Sub-contractor teams
• Interface with OSHA, consultants, and other third-party
• agencies

Environment and Physical Job Duties

• Exposure to outdoor weather conditions
• Ability to stand, walk, and climb throughout work shift.
• Ability to travel (fly and drive) from job site to job site. (daily local travel, potential monthly overnight travel). Anticipate as much as 80% travel requirement for the role.
• Conduct onsite facility observations/inspections specific to applicable regulatory agency compliance, insurance compliance and CP company policies and procedures.

Key Metrics and Deliverables

• Lead in assuring Leading and Lagging KPIs are maintained current.
• Lead in actively managing workload and completion of assignments on time.
• Lead in actively tracking project corrective action items to an appropriate and on time completion.
• Engage directly with project leadership as well as company management as necessary.
• Work independently with frequent reporting and metrics to direct manager and/or company leadership.
• Provide leadership in implementation in a coaching engagement style vs. directive-based engagement.

Skills and Abilities

• Passionate about Clark Pacific's vision and mission; able to promote, demonstrate, and communicate the mission, values, and core competencies of Clark Pacific to others.
• Ability to build strong relationships and engage and motivate teams representing diverse backgrounds and viewpoints; exceptionally collaborative.
• Exceptional communications skills, both written and verbal, as well as effective listening and engagement with all levels of the organization
• Excellent organization skills to drive topics with multiple stakeholders/interests.
• Problem solving skills that aim to remedy and prevent recurrence.
• Comfortable escalating issues while maintaining positive relationships with team members and other organizations.
• Able to exercise appropriate discretion when handling confidential and/or sensitive information.

Experience and Education

• Associate degree with 15 years' experience (preferred).
• 1-5 years' experience with Safety and Compliance in a commercial construction and/or manufacturing environment.
• OSHA 10 & 30 certified (preferred)

Interested? Want to learn more? If you're a hard-working nice person who is smart and curious, and think that this position is right for you, we want to hear from you. Please apply and let's begin the journey.

Clark Pacific is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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