Safety Director

Overview

McKee Utility Contractors is now hiring a Safety Director who is responsible for all safety functions necessary to support the Infrastructure Market Sector service line to which they are serve. This includes developing, communicating, assessing, and improving core components of the service line’s corporate safety strategy.  The Safety Director is expected to maintain effective communication with Service Line and Regional leadership teams.  The Safety Director is expected to represent the service line to satisfy customer safety-related needs.  The Safety Director shall act as the primary technical and leadership resource to the service line to which they serve. 

Company Overview

McKee Utility Contractors is a family-founded and operated company with over 40 years of proven expertise in water and wastewater line installation, tunneling, boring, and concrete structure construction. Since our beginning, we have been dedicated to delivering the critical infrastructure that strengthens communities and supports a higher quality of life. 

Our deep knowledge of soil bore analysis, local environments, and regional regulations - combined with our uncompromising commitment to safety, on-time delivery, and strategic planning - has established McKee as a trusted partner for reliable, efficient water and wastewater system construction across multiple regions. 

McKee is part of the MasTec Clean Energy & Infrastructure (CE&I) business segment. The CE&I segment generates over $4.5 billion in annual revenue, providing construction services across our renewables, industrial, infrastructure, and general building operating groups. Sustainability and safety are foundational to our culture and influence everything we do.

MasTec, a minority-owned Fortune 500 company, has shaped the construction industry for more than 90 years. With over 35,000 employees and 400 offices nationwide, we provide flexibility and career growth in dynamic work environments. Join one of the largest construction firms in the country (Engineering News-Record [ENR]: #1 in Power, #17 Top 50 Domestic Heavy Contractors, #20 Transportation Contractor). 

Responsibilities

Strategy:

• Develop and implement a safety strategy of continuous improvement to minimize risk.
• Emphasize involvement in safety processes from all levels of management and craft.
• Promote good safety leadership at all levels of the organization.
• Set exemplary standards of ethics and stewardship of resources.
• Implement an open and effective communication strategy across the service line to include incidents, lessons learned, and performance indicators.

Tactics:

• Drive consistency where practical in the safety program across all projects.
• Prepare and present monthly service line safety performance reports to include work hours, lagging indicators, observation completion/trending data, major incidents and incident trending data.
• Assure that all projects have a written safety plan at their commencement.
• Facilitate regulatory visits and provide support for projects during regulatory inquiries.
• Evaluate project safety programs, issue recommendations, and implement changes.
• Assure full utilization of donesafe and Power BI to manage incident and observation information.
• Review corrective actions related to incidents and near miss events assuring they follow the SMART model.
• Participate in tactical planning and support of service line, region, and Market Sector safety initiatives.
• Assure all incident reports have accurate and complete root cause analysis and corrective actions and are properly closed out in donesafe.
• Support project safety professionals with injury case management.
• Attend project planning events to provide safety support at the earliest phase of projects.
• Assure projects have qualified safety staffing.
• Coordinate with peers in the Market Sector to support safety staffing availability and needs.
• Implement and maintain an effective front-line supervisor safety leadership training program.

Compliance:

• Conduct documented project inspections to identify of at-risk conditions and behaviors.
• Following each site visit, conduct a documented close-out meeting with project leadership to discuss findings, necessary corrective actions, and target completion timelines.
• Assure that all projects are in full compliance with corporate safety policies and applicable regulations, including documentation retention and OSHA recordkeeping keeping.
• Perform and communicate regular (at least monthly) leading indicators assessments to proactively identify trends and recommend corrective action before a loss occurs.  

Training and Development:

• Develop and present training on a variety of subjects with or without subject matter experts (SME’s)
• Conduct training needs assessments and identify resources to
• Provide training, mentoring and progressive career opportunity to safety professionals

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in safety, or safety-related field from accredited university (Preferred)
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience (Required)
• Minimum of 20 years of construction safety experience if no degree
• OSHA 500 certification (Required)
• CHST or equivalent (Required)
• Certified Safety Professional, CSP (Preferred)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Read, analyze and interpret periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations for application in the Service Line.
• Develop reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables.
• Working knowledge of government regulations, safety compliance and industrial Hygiene
• Strong business acumen
• Strong analytical skills
• Strategic thinking abilities
• Strong understanding of organizational behavior
• Ability to influence where direct reporting lines do not exist
• Team player and self-starter
• Interpersonal skills a must

What's in it for you:

• Competitive pay with ongoing performance review and merit increase
• 401(k) with company match

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans available

Position may be subject to pre-employment screening, which may include background check and drug testing. Accessibility: If you need accommodation as part of the employment process, contact ceicareers@mastec.com. Due to the high volume of applications received, we are unable to respond to individual requests regarding application status. Please log into your candidate profile for up-to-date information. 

MasTec, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Company's policy is not to unlawfully discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasTec's policy to comply with all applicable state, federal and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

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