Senior Safety Specialist - Safety Trainer

Role Summary

The Senior Safety Specialist - The Safety Trainer develops, delivers, and evaluates safety and health training programs that promote a culture of safety and ensure compliance with company policies, OSHA regulations, and client requirements. The trainer works with project teams, field leadership, and safety professionals to improve hazard recognition, reduce incidents, and enhance workforce competency through classroom, virtual, and hands-on training. Safety Trainer may also coordinate and implement the field safety program for routine and complex construction projects. This position will be responsible for conducting safety inspections, identifying and documenting abatement of hazardous conditions, writing reports and performing trend analysis. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.  

• Autonomy & Decision-Making: Makes decisions on assigned areas of responsibility, provides recommendations to supervisor and refers all exceptions to supervisor, as needed.
• Career Path: Safety Manager

Key Role Responsibilities - Core

SAFETY SPECIALIST FAMILY - CORE

• Conducts instructor led, virtual and field-based safety training program. 

• Facilitate OSHA, competent person, leadershiop and compliance related courses. 
• Deliver new employee orientation and task-specific safety training. 
• Conduct project-specific new hire orientation and oversees drug and alcohol policy compliance.
• Conduct toolbox talks, refresher training and special emphasis programs. 
• Develop and update training materials, presentations, exercises and learning aids.
• Ensure training content reflects current OSHA regulations, company standards, and industry best practices. 
• Evaluate training effectiveness and revise programs as necessary. 
• Track employee training completion and regulatory requirements.
• Support audits and compliance reviews related to safety training programs.
• Visit construction sites to observe work activities and identify training needs.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to supervisors, foremen and craft workers.
• Assist with indident investigation and identify training opportunities resulting from incident findings. 
• Support implementation of safety initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.  

Key Role Responsibilities - Additional Core

SENIOR SAFETY SPECIALIST

In addition, this position will be responsible for the following:

•    Possesses a higher level of safety knowledge and identifies more complex safety hazards that encompass safety, health and hazardous material matters. Provides more complex abatements solutions.
•    Utilizes a higher level of knowledge of equipment, laws and work processes, and applies that knowledge to project-specific safety recommendations.
•    Contributes a higher level of communication skills and plays a more active role in meetings.
•    Utilizes internal safety management systems and tools to perform trend analysis that identifies safety trends, including problem areas within the project or subcontractors, and provides recommended solutions to mitigate future occurrences.
•    Provides guidance and training on basic and some intermediate safety-related topics for new or existing safety and project team personnel.
•    Assists safety leadership during insurance audits.
•    Oversees more complex projects, including one large or complex project and/or multiple projects.
•    Manages controlled insurance program projects.
•    May develop and implement training strategies and processes to support training objectives.
•    May partner with leadership to develop needs assessments, gap analyses and strategic training plans.
•    May analyze training needs to develop new and improve existing training programs.
•    May develop effective training methods such as digital learning, classroom, skill qualifications, and on-the-job training.
•    May assist with identifying and implementing technologies to enhance effective learning experiences.
•    May monitor company safety metrics and identify areas for training improvement and intervention.
•    May provide in-person and virtual training sessions and ensure training record retention.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to perform work accurately and completely, and in a timely manner.
• Communications skills, verbal and written (Advanced).
• Proficiency in MS Office (Intermediate).
• Knowledge of and ability to enforce all federal, state, local and company safety regulations.
• Proficiency in company safety software/programs, processes and tools (Advanced).
• Ability to recognize hazardous situations and implement corrective measures.
• Ability to build relationships with team members that transcend a project.
• Knowledge of various testing protocols for environmental hazards.
• Proficiency in required construction technology (Intermediate).
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate within a team, internally and externally.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a safety and health-related field (Preferred).
• In lieu of the above requirements, equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• OSHA Authorized Construction Trainer (Preferred) 
• OSHA Authorized General Industry Trainer (Preferred) 
• CPR/First Aid/AED Certified Trainer (Preferred)
• Powered Industrial Trucks Certified Trainer (Preferred)
• Mobile Elevated Work Platform Certified Trainer (Preferred)

Experience

• 5+ years construction safety experience (Required).

Working Environment

Benefits Information

The benefits package aligned to this position is Professional Non-Union. Please click the link below for more details.

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