Safety Health & Environmental Manager

Become Part of Our Team

As 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

Balfour Beatty Construction in Falls Church, Virginia is seeking a Safety Health & Environmental Manager. This position is responsible for the implementation of the company's safety and loss prevention programs. In addition, this role ensures job-site employees and subcontractors are trained in all safety programs and protocol, including federal/state regulations, in order to prevent accidents and/or injuries.

Loss Prevention Responsibilities

• Conducts or assist with new employee project orientation and basic training with Balfour Beatty and subcontractor employees.
• Coordinates all Loss Prevention efforts on the project with the Project Manager and Superintendent.
• Attends subcontractor preconstruction meetings, review task specific Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs) and assist with planning for safety issues.
• Assists with material and equipment acquisition for new project setup.
• Conducts frequent inspections of projects and identifies current and future safety challenges.
• Assists projects in establishing and administering project safety recognition programs.
• Prepares written reports of project inspections and assists project staff with correcting and preventing hazards.
• Provides technical safety consulting services for projects and reviews preconstruction safety submittals.
• Assists with establishing and maintaining a project crisis management plan.
• Conducts accident investigations and assists with OSHA and environmental inspections.
• Manages workers compensation claims including the return to work program.
• Maintains project incident logs for all reported injuries, GL claims, WC claims, and OSHA records.

Promote Customer Relations

• 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.

Culture, Leadership and Employee Development

• Promotes our Creed. Communicates our vision and purpose through Service, Talent, & Choices.
• Serves as a role model and promotes professional behavior.

• Participates in company training programs and commits to self-development.
• Keeps current with new developments in OSHA regulations and company safety policies and communicates to the appropriate jobsite personnel.

• Negotiates skillfully in tough situations with internal and external parties by winning concessions without damaging relationships and being direct and diplomatic.

Minimum Requirements

• 30 hr. OSHA certificate
• 5 years of continuous construction industry safety experience in supervising/managing general construction (managing safety programs or processes or conducting hazard analyses and developing control

Preferred Requirements

• OSHA 30
• CHST preferred
• Commercial Building experience

Balfour 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.