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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