Regional Field Safety Coordinator

Surveying And Mapping, LLC
Regional Field Safety Coordinator
US-TX-Austin
Job ID: 24-6500
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Safety
Austin
Overview

For over thirty years, SAM has built a reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable, and innovative partner. Our licensed professionals transform petabytes of complex spatial data into intelligent insights in a holistic Managed Geospatial Services™ (MGS™) framework. As North America's premiere MGS™ company, SAM provides practical, precise, and high-fidelity solutions designed to enhance decision-making, mitigate risks, achieve strategic objectives, and drive costs out of our client's business. Our vision is to advance spatial data acquisition, improve analysis capabilities, and develop predictive analytics to redefine and transform how infrastructure assets are developed and managed throughout their lifecycles.

Responsibilities

The Regional Field Safety Coordinator supports all field related safety needs for covered region(s) to include field safety observations, field re-training/coaching, work site inspection/audit, field policy and field level operational support as needed. This role reports to and informs the Regional Safety Manager or Sr. Safety Specialist of safety related matters and support needs.

• Primary Duties:

  • Demonstrates the Company’s vision and mission, while successfully performing its core values related to People, Integrity and Ethics, Excellence in Service, Safety, and Community.
  • Establish ongoing and frequent safety presence at project locations by conducting scheduled and unannounced project site visit for conducting field observations and audits.
  • Establish ongoing and frequent safety presence by hosting project specific kicking off safety meetings
  • Establish ongoing and frequent safety presence at project locations by attending client project safety meetings
  • Travel to and work from project field offices are regular intervals where applicable.
  • Travel to field locations daily to engage directly with field personnel during the normal course and scope of their work (observe them while they are working).
  • Travel to field locations to deliver safety related training as needed and/or as directed by the Area Sr. Safety Specialist, Regional Safety Manager or Safety Director.
  • Assist with pre-project planning as requested by the Sr. Safety Specialist, Regional Safety Manager or Safety Director.
  • Participate in safety updates, department meetings, learning teams, and other meetings as requested or required.
  • Perform all other duties as directed by the Sr. Safety Specialist, Regional Safety Manager or Safety Director.

  Accountability:

  • Take responsibility for activities and actions of field crews in covered area(s).
  • Monitor metrics related to compliance with employee engagement for the area (safety meetings, field observations, audits/reviews, etc.)
  • Train employees as required by internal or external requirements as directed by the Sr. Safety Specialist or Regional Safety Manager (FSO, Driver training, task-specific, industry specific, etc.)
  • Hold yourself to the highest level of ethical behavior and decision making.
  • Be responsive and timely in your duties.
  • Meet or exceed self-imposed or established timelines on projects and initiatives.
  • Maintain an approximate ratio of 90% direct field engagement and 10% office operational engagement.
  • Clearly communicate in advance or as situations arise when you will not be readily available or actively working.
  • Work within the generally practiced hours of operations for your covered region (typically between the hours of 06:00 AM and 18:00 PM (time zone specific).
  • Work efficiently and effectively, managing your workload to the best of your ability to achieve maximum benefit to the organization for your time.
  • Efficiently and effectively manage your travel to the best of your ability to achieve maximum benefit to the organization for your time.
  • This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Survey/SUE or related field services experience (10+ years)
• Experience with SAM Safety (or similar organization) requirements and documentation processes (2+ years)
• SAM Field Tech II or III (2+ years) or similar experience leading work crews as crew lead, foreman, etc.
• Certified Safety and Health Official (CSHO) or Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST) -OR- or willingness to work toward

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