Senior EHS Manager

The Senior EHS Manager shall be assigned to larger projects that are more complex and may have multiple EHS Managers reporting to them. The Senior Environmental Health & Safety Manager is responsible for the integration of environmental health & safety services into the business practices and compliance with regulatory requirements on their assigned project. The Senior EHS manager shall be project based. The Senior EHS manager oversees responsibilities of their assigned Project as related to environmental health & safety services and has direct interaction with EH&S Staff, Superintendents, Project Manager, Project Executive and Area / Regional EHS Director.

Has advanced knowledge and ability to coach/guide others in:

• Compliance Inspections: Conducts compliance inspections to ensure hazardous conditions or at-risk behaviors are identified and corrected and that project teams are following EHS policy and procedures. Implements and maintains corrective actions to remediate non-compliance.

• EHS Performance Indicators: Maintains, tracks and trends all leading and lagging indicators and provides environmental, health and safety (EHS) statistics necessary for submitting reports and communicating performance to all affected groups.

• EHS Tools and Technology (USB 0,2, USC 0,1): Utilizes digital platforms, tools and systems for tracking and trending EH&S metrics, creating EHS plans and report documentation

• EHS Training: Develops, implements and delivers training to field operations employees about Skanska’s EHS programs, policies and procedures as well as local and federal requirements and regulations.

• Incident Management - Project-level: Conducts and/or manages incident investigations ensuring that accidents involving personal injury, property damage, environmental impacts, etc. are thoroughly investigated, analyzed, and documented.

• ISO Standards (SHEMS): Implements and communicates the requirements of Skanska’s Safety, Health and Environmental Management System (SHEMS) and ensure conformance to the ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Standards.

• Recordkeeping: Receives, tracks and maintains all EH&S related documentation (Incident reports, training records, monitoring and calibration records, SHEMS documentation, etc.)

• Building and Construction Knowledge - EHS : Applies building and construction knowledge to properly assess all EH&S risks and exposures during all phases of the project progression.

• EHS Regulations: Keeps current on all EH&S regulations and utilizes all federal, state and local requirements, industry standards and governing regulations to provide guidance and effectively communicate changes to affected groups

• Plans and Specifications - EHS: Reads and interprets client/owner specifications and EH&S requirements. Outlines and makes recommendations to ensure compliance with all EHS regulations and standards, Skanska policies and all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Has demonstrated proficiency in:

• Communications: Creates and delivers communications that express ideas clearly and concisely using appropriate mediums. Targets the amount, form, level of detail, and content of information to the needs of the receiver/audience.

• Incident Management - Corporate-level: Manages incident closeout associated insurance claims, injury classification, OSHA recordkeeping requirements and distribution of corrective and preventive actions company-wide.

• Monitoring and Measuring (SHEMS): Conducts quantitative and qualitative analysis to audit, evaluate and report on project and regional performance of the Safety, Health and Environmental Management System (SHEMS). (PAS Audits, Internal Audits)

• Risk Management: Identifies potential risks related to operations, specifications, scope, and project execution. Develops plans and strategies to mitigate risk throughout the life cycle of a project.

Duties and Responsibilities

Organizational Impact:
• Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership.
• Establishes operational plans for job area with short-to mid-term impact on results (eg, 1-2 years).
• Provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards and/or operational plans that will have some impact on the achievement of overall function results.

Innovation and Complexity:
• Responsible for improving upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation.
• Investigates and gathers difficult to obtain information to understand the root cause of problems or issues across the function or business.

Communication and Influence:
• Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function, and typically has responsibilities for communicating with parties external to the organization, which may include customers or vendors.
• Works to influence others to accept job function’s view/ practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.
• May conduct briefings with senior leaders within the job function.

Leadership and Talent Management:
• Responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the Company within area of expertise.
• Typically, responsible for managing large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams.
• May have direct reports, but generally fewer than three.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree – Construction Management, Environmental Health & Safety, or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience.
• Requires mastery level knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.  
• May have deep knowledge of project management.

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