Senior Safety Engineer
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Job Description:
Senior Safety Engineer
Specific Responsibilities:
- - Advises and assists the project manager, program manager, and/or other project personnel in conforming to Parsons’ Environmental, Safety, Health, and Risk Program (ESHARP) management system and Parsons’ policies and procedures.
- - Audits the project or program and its worksites against corporate standards.
- - Inspects worksites to detect hazards and provides expertise to project or program personnel to eliminate/control the SH&E risks associated with exposure to the hazards.
- - Creates and submits written audit and inspection reports.
- - Implements Parsons’ occupational injury and incident reporting and management processes.
- - Initiates and conducts thorough incident investigations and root cause analyses using defensible protocols.
- - Works collaboratively with the project or program manager, craft workers, and other project or program personnel to identify effective corrective actions.
- - Creates and submits comprehensive investigation reports and lessons learned.
- - Performs trends analyses on audit findings, inspection findings, and incident reports; creates and submits regular analysis reports.
- - Represents Parsons during external regulatory or loss control inspections of project worksites.
- - Represents the SH&E manager or director on project or program worksites.
- - Seeks active and personal participation from the project or program manager, craft workers, and other project or program personnel to identify SH&E improvements and to implement the improvements.
- - Assists with risk assessments for upcoming work and provides SH&E subject matter expertise to work planning processes.
- - Assists the project or program manager with new hire orientation.
- - Performs regulatory and best practice SH&E training.
- - Creates and maintains SH&E training records.
- - Participates in routine safe work briefings.
- - Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.
Key Relationships:
- - Supervision Received - SH&E Manager; SH&E Director; Project/Program Manager
- - Supervision Given - Lower-level Safety Specialists; First Aid Attendants (technical guidance only)
- - Internal Contacts - All employees on project
- - External Contacts - Suppliers; Clients; Safety Organizations; Government Organizations
Skills and Competencies
- - Advanced knowledge of Federal and State health and safety regulations and reporting procedures
- - Advanced knowledge of safety-related national consensus standards (e.g., ANSI, NFPA)
- - Exceptional interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Education and Typical Experience
- - Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Safety and Health or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 6-10+ years of related work experience in the field of Health and Safety
- Licenses and Certifications
- - Associate Safety Professional (ASP) or Graduate Safety Practitioner (GSP) or Occupational Hygiene and Safety Technician (OHST) or Construction Health and Safety Technician preferred
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