Job Details

Travel: 2 weeks/month : needs to travel to sites (Andover, Kzoo, Sanford, and Rocky Mount)

Role Responsibilities:

• Active member of the Global Capital Project Safety Leadership Team with overall responsibility for safety on all US Capital Projects $50 million or more, providing direction and leadership to the project teams.
• Chair the Capital Projects Safety council and have regular meeting / sharing of information with the team (suggest monthly)
• Become a certified Method 1 five why SME and trainer (an interactive interrogative technique used to explore cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem) and conduct formal training with each Capital Project Construction Management Team member.
• Travel in the US to all our major capital projects on a monthly basis (approximately 50% of your work time will be travel) Typically we have 4-5 projects in execution over $50 Million at any given time.
• Conduct customer facing talks, project audits, training and presentations.
• Work with Project Leadership teams to mentor, coach and help them implement the new Capital Projects Visual Safety Standards program.
• Drive the execution of the safety program from Conceptual Design thru Basis of Design, Detailed design, Commissioning and Operations
• Provide monthly project safety report to the Capital Projects Leadership Team.
• Conduct wrap-up audit findings meetings with the Project Leadership Team before leaving the site and ensure there is a mechanism in place to track to closure any outstanding action items stemming from the audit.
• Be fully involved in all project serious incidents / near-miss investigations and ensure the Method 1: Five-why investigative tool is used to its full potential to get to true root cause.
• Champion the Safety Behavioral Program and ensure the program is embedded in capital projects e.g. all noted safety behavioral trends are being reported back to the work-force and actionable items getting closed out in a timely manner.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Have good communications skills, both written and verbal.
• Have a strong safety program aptitude, experience and technical experience.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in relevant industry e.g. pharmaceutical, oil and gas capital projects industry.
• Third level degree in a safety or engineering discipline and a Graduate Safety Practitioner (GSP) / Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certified or an equivalent.
• Pharma Construction Safety Project experience. 
• 7-10+ years of Commissioning Safety/Start-Up Program Management Experience
• Must be flexible, adaptable, resilient and open to change.
• Be proficient in Microsoft Office software, especially on Word, Excel and Power-point.