DIRECTOR HEALTH AND SAFETY (49773)
Description
Director of Health & Safety
Location: Northampton, MA
Employment Type: Full-Time
About BluRoc
BluRoc is a growing provider of access, ground protection, and temporary roadway solutions supporting critical infrastructure, including powerline, utility, oil & gas pipeline, construction, and other remote-access projects.
Position Description
The Director of Health and Safety is directly responsible for managing the safety and risk associated with construction projects and company operations. They are responsible for proactively planning, directing and implementing the Company's safety program to ensure a safe, healthy and accident-free work environment. The Safety Director oversees the Field Safety Managers, Coordinators and the Communications & ESR Manger, in ensuring each construction project is conducting operations in a safe manner for the protection of our employees, clients, subcontractors and the general public. The Safety Director sets the tone for corporate safety and risk management, demonstrates strong leadership skills, works well in a team environment, has excellent communication skills, and strives to enrich the Company Culture.
Core Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Review, redesign (where needed) and implement enterprise-wide health, safety, and environmental strategies aligned with business goals.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensures adherence to standards from agencies such as OSHA, the EPA, and local/state/provincial regulations.
- Risk & Financial Management: Oversees incident investigations, risk assessments, safety budgets, workers’ compensation costs, and insurance risk.
- Board & Executive Reporting: Translates safety performance data (such as incident rates and risk exposure) into executive-level business metrics.
- Culture & Training: Builds organization-wide safety accountability through training programs, safety committees, and proactive hazard reporting