EHS Manager

Job description

Job Description: The EHS Manager is responsible for developing a safety culture on the project which anticipates construction risk and avoids or mitigates hazards to prevent injury to personnel or damage to the structure. An EHS Manager’s day involves promoting, developing, implementing, verifying, and improving risk-reduction through planning, EHS programs, incident reporting, trend analysis, EHS team cohesion, EHS training, craft recognition programs, and improvements in the efforts towards creating a positive safety culture. This includes developing methods for evaluating effectiveness of team cohesiveness, EHS compliance, and construction planning. This position serves as a primary decision maker for issues relating to project safety, compliance, risk control, claims management and environmental planning, questions, and issues. A successful EHS Manager is responsible for developing practical, effective EHS policies and initiatives for workers to engage in a goal of an Injury Free Environment. This requires an ability to anticipate or identify areas requiring improvement and bring forward best practices and procedures for work sites and work functions. A manager communicates wit...