The Opportunity:

As an SME Safety Manager, you will work closely with SME’s Safety Director, specialist and coordinators to drive our culture of caring, lead safety initiatives, and enforce Safety policy, as well as, local and federal safety standards. As a member of the leadership team, you will work with other leaders, groups and offices to support all functions of our safety program.
Responsibilities:
In support of SME’s Safety Director, you will:

Core Competencies:

• Has competency using computer operating systems and MS Office Suite programs (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills to effectively interact with clients, team members, and supervisors, conveying technical information clearly.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize, manage workloads, maintain accurate and detailed record-keeping skills, documenting field observations, safety concerns, and problem resolutions.
• Effective interpersonal skills to build rapport with clients and team members, fostering positive working relationships, customer-centric approach to provide excellent service to clients, ensuring their needs and concerns are addressed promptly and professionally.
• Must be able to understand and adapt to change and react productively to frequent interruptions and changing conditions.
• Has a general aptitude for identifying and resolving complex technical problems in the field, utilizing critical thinking and logical reasoning.

Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience managing the safety function of a company
• Bachelor's degree in Safety Management (or similar degree) OR one of the following certifications required: Federal OSHA Professional Certificate in OHS, CHST, STSC, CSP
• Advanced knowledge of health/safety regulations/requirements, terminology and concepts. Experience with OSHA/Safety related record keeping and reporting.
• Preferred experience with reporting to safety auditing databases such as Avetta, ISNetworld, PEC Premier or similar.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)