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Become Part of Our TeamAs an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Become Part of Our TeamAs an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

SummaryBalfour Beatty Construction in Falls Church, Virginia is seeking a Safety Health & Environmental Director to help support the Mid-Atlantic division. This position serves as the primary company representative responsible for the overall direction of the company's loss prevention function. Proactively implements company safety programs to enforce compliance on all divisional job sites and prevents accidents and reduces time lost due to accidents by developing, communicating and training on safety programs and policies.Essential Functions

• Enforces compliance with federal and state safety regulations on all projects.
• Develops and administers company's loss prevention programs and policies with Loss Prevention and Operations staff.
• Participates in intra-company Loss Prevention Task Team meetings, initiatives and planning efforts.
• Reviews project plans and specifications and make recommendations to Operations on potential hazards.
• Oversees and conducts education and training programs for employees, subcontractors and owner representatives and ensure programs are effective and cost efficient.
• Conducts random safety and loss control surveys and audits; implements changes to meet identified needs.
• Manages incident investigations and open claims, and analyzes claim data for prevention solutions.
• Assists Project Safety Task Teams with weekly safety evaluations and necessary corrections.
• Ensures job startup kits and signs are prepared for projects.
• Ensures Loss Prevention team is communicating progress, issues, and new developments with company employees on a regular basis.
• Maintains division-wide records, including daily injury logs, OSHA 300 forms, meeting minutes, subcontractor correspondence, etc.
• Prepares and analyzes reports that summarize and forecast division activity and financial impact in areas of safety, worker's compensation, and other loss prevention activity.
• Prepares and manages the Loss Prevention budget.
• Strives to continually seek feedback and improve services/tools/department deliverables to internal customers.
• Builds effective relationships with customers, design team, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups that reflect and support company core values and meets or exceeds the customer's expectations.
• Actively participates in industry, client, and community relations to enhance company image.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Safety & Environmental Health or related field.
• 15+ years of experience, preferably in the construction industry.
• Certified as a Construction Site Safety Technician (CSST) or Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST) required, OSHA 500, OSHA 30.
• 10 years or more of supervisory experience related to staff and subcontractors.
• Demonstrates proficiency using a personal computer (PC) and company communication tools, such as email, internet, and Microsoft products (e.g., Word, Excel, Office, Outlook).

Preferred Requirements

• DMV market experience helpful, but, not required.
• CSP preferred
• Willing to travel to Mid-Atlantic projects at least 25-50% of the time.

About UsBalfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm, we are challenging the construction industry's assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.Consistently ranked among the nation's largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.Seniority level

• Seniority levelNot Applicable

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionManagement and Manufacturing
• IndustriesConstruction

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