Kokosing
Overview
Kokosing (www.kokosing.biz) is one of America\'s 40 largest General Contractors and services a broad spectrum of clients in both the private and public business sectors. Kokosing\'s services include heavy civil/industrial construction such as highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. For over 70 years, Kokosing has attracted qualified technical personnel by offering visible challenges, superior quality, and rewards. With over $2.8 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is the winning team. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Lead and Monitor: Coach, implement, and monitor the Company Safety and Health Program at assigned location or locations. Lead and manage the company\'s efforts to meet regulatory compliance as outlined in the Company\'s Safety and Health Management System. Champion the implementation of the Company\'s behavioral based program – Safety 24/7. Operational Leadership: Serve as both a hands-on contributor and a leader, actively engaging in daily operations while guiding and supporting safety staff. Balance technical expertise with interpersonal skills to promote teamwork and collaboration, ensuring safety practices are integrated. Drive continuous improvement initiatives across their area of influence. Team Leadership: Supervise, mentor, and manage safety staff to ensure the effective application of the Safety and Health Management System. Build a collaborative environment that encourages continuous learning, development, and leadership among safety staff. Provide clear direction, set expectations, and ensure accountability. Audits and Inspections: Ensure safety staff initiates, performs, and documents audits, inspections and safety conversations. Coach safety staff and operations managers to implement corrective and preventative actions. Facilitate operations’ involvement with the safety and health audit, inspection, and conversation processes. Incident Investigation and Analysis: Lead in investigating injury, illness, and general liability incidents. Coach safety staff and ensure quality and timely investigation, analysis and coding of workers’ compensation and general liability incidents into the company\'s data management system. Partner with operations managers to positively impact future results. Mitigation Strategies: Develop and execute strategies with operations managers to reduce injuries, illnesses, and incidents and achieve business objectives. Process Adjustments: Propose and support process improvements based on safety performance data to enhance the effectiveness of the Safety and Health Management System and lead safety staff to do the same. Data Analysis: Analyze safety data from audits, inspections, conversations, incidents, and training to provide insights to operations management for continuous improvement. Training and Communication: Ensure safety staff identifies, initiates, coordinates and leads safety meetings and training programs. Guide safety staff to examine incident trends and inspection data to recommend training solutions and share knowledge with project teams. Policy and Training Development: Collaborate with Safety leadership to assist with the development, organization, and implementation of safety policies, procedures, and trainings that advance the Safety and Health Management System. Safety Program Coordination: Coach safety staff and lead project safety programs with subcontractors, vendors, and third-party personnel to verify adherence to regulatory, owner, and site-specific safety policies. Participate in subcontract/vendor pre-construction and coordination meetings. Point of Contact: Under the guidance of Safety leadership, serve as a point of contact for federal, state, or municipal safety or risk management authorities and for clients. Assist corporate insurance personnel in investigating and managing incidents to minimize loss. Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in safety and health or equivalent combinations of technical training and experience. 10+ years of experience with safety and health in the construction industry preferred. Technical Skills
Demonstrates understanding of OSHA, MSHA, DOT, and EPA regulations as well as other state/federal safety regulations and company safety policies/procedures. Ability to manage one or more project/facility locations, lead, and prioritize tasks to manage safety programs effectively. Knowledge and experience to coach, conduct, and document safety and health audits, inspections, and/or behavioral observations and conversations. Proficiency with MS Office Suite and related tools (e.g., SharePoint, Power BI). Strong organization and administrative recording skills to manage locations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills for conveying safety information to diverse stakeholders. Ability to coach safety staff to apply business unit methods, including leading and lagging indicators, to achieve results. Ability to identify trends and training needs, and perform root cause analysis to support proactive interventions that improve safety culture. Ability to work in a high-production environment (50+ hours/week, including nights and weekends) and respond quickly under pressure. Leadership Skills
Proven leadership and coaching ability for safety staff. Effective at communicating performance expectations and handling sensitive issues with professionalism. Ability to set priorities for safety staff to ensure timely completion of assignments. Strong judgment to guide corrective and preventative actions and influence operations managers. Ability to create a safe work environment by positively interacting with safety staff and operations leadership. Provide guidance and development opportunities to help safety staff grow professionally. Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Ability to convey safety concepts to diverse audiences and promote shared safety goals. Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated on industry trends. Role model for safety staff, operating with honesty and integrity. Certifications
Valid Driver’s License, good driving record required. CPR/First Aid certification preferred. OSHA 30-Hour and 10-Hour Trainer certification preferred. GSP, ASP, CSP or CHST Designation preferred. Working Environment
Exposure to varying weather conditions and in-office setting. Extended periods of walking, standing, climbing, or bending while inspecting work areas and safety practices. Must navigate safely around heavy equipment, hazardous materials, and other risks. May require lifting up to 50 lbs. Some travel may be required. Please Note:
This job description is intended as a general summary of the position; the individual will be expected to perform any functions or responsibilities assigned from time to time. The description may change over time. This description is not intended to limit or impact the work to be performed. Kokosing is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action federal and state contractor. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class. Note: Some lines below reference job postings and alerts; they are retained only for context where relevant and can be removed if not needed for presentation.
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Kokosing (www.kokosing.biz) is one of America\'s 40 largest General Contractors and services a broad spectrum of clients in both the private and public business sectors. Kokosing\'s services include heavy civil/industrial construction such as highways, bridges, underground utilities, water/wastewater facilities, and marine construction. For over 70 years, Kokosing has attracted qualified technical personnel by offering visible challenges, superior quality, and rewards. With over $2.8 billion in annual sales and a commitment to its workforce, Kokosing is the winning team. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Lead and Monitor: Coach, implement, and monitor the Company Safety and Health Program at assigned location or locations. Lead and manage the company\'s efforts to meet regulatory compliance as outlined in the Company\'s Safety and Health Management System. Champion the implementation of the Company\'s behavioral based program – Safety 24/7. Operational Leadership: Serve as both a hands-on contributor and a leader, actively engaging in daily operations while guiding and supporting safety staff. Balance technical expertise with interpersonal skills to promote teamwork and collaboration, ensuring safety practices are integrated. Drive continuous improvement initiatives across their area of influence. Team Leadership: Supervise, mentor, and manage safety staff to ensure the effective application of the Safety and Health Management System. Build a collaborative environment that encourages continuous learning, development, and leadership among safety staff. Provide clear direction, set expectations, and ensure accountability. Audits and Inspections: Ensure safety staff initiates, performs, and documents audits, inspections and safety conversations. Coach safety staff and operations managers to implement corrective and preventative actions. Facilitate operations’ involvement with the safety and health audit, inspection, and conversation processes. Incident Investigation and Analysis: Lead in investigating injury, illness, and general liability incidents. Coach safety staff and ensure quality and timely investigation, analysis and coding of workers’ compensation and general liability incidents into the company\'s data management system. Partner with operations managers to positively impact future results. Mitigation Strategies: Develop and execute strategies with operations managers to reduce injuries, illnesses, and incidents and achieve business objectives. Process Adjustments: Propose and support process improvements based on safety performance data to enhance the effectiveness of the Safety and Health Management System and lead safety staff to do the same. Data Analysis: Analyze safety data from audits, inspections, conversations, incidents, and training to provide insights to operations management for continuous improvement. Training and Communication: Ensure safety staff identifies, initiates, coordinates and leads safety meetings and training programs. Guide safety staff to examine incident trends and inspection data to recommend training solutions and share knowledge with project teams. Policy and Training Development: Collaborate with Safety leadership to assist with the development, organization, and implementation of safety policies, procedures, and trainings that advance the Safety and Health Management System. Safety Program Coordination: Coach safety staff and lead project safety programs with subcontractors, vendors, and third-party personnel to verify adherence to regulatory, owner, and site-specific safety policies. Participate in subcontract/vendor pre-construction and coordination meetings. Point of Contact: Under the guidance of Safety leadership, serve as a point of contact for federal, state, or municipal safety or risk management authorities and for clients. Assist corporate insurance personnel in investigating and managing incidents to minimize loss. Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in safety and health or equivalent combinations of technical training and experience. 10+ years of experience with safety and health in the construction industry preferred. Technical Skills
Demonstrates understanding of OSHA, MSHA, DOT, and EPA regulations as well as other state/federal safety regulations and company safety policies/procedures. Ability to manage one or more project/facility locations, lead, and prioritize tasks to manage safety programs effectively. Knowledge and experience to coach, conduct, and document safety and health audits, inspections, and/or behavioral observations and conversations. Proficiency with MS Office Suite and related tools (e.g., SharePoint, Power BI). Strong organization and administrative recording skills to manage locations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills for conveying safety information to diverse stakeholders. Ability to coach safety staff to apply business unit methods, including leading and lagging indicators, to achieve results. Ability to identify trends and training needs, and perform root cause analysis to support proactive interventions that improve safety culture. Ability to work in a high-production environment (50+ hours/week, including nights and weekends) and respond quickly under pressure. Leadership Skills
Proven leadership and coaching ability for safety staff. Effective at communicating performance expectations and handling sensitive issues with professionalism. Ability to set priorities for safety staff to ensure timely completion of assignments. Strong judgment to guide corrective and preventative actions and influence operations managers. Ability to create a safe work environment by positively interacting with safety staff and operations leadership. Provide guidance and development opportunities to help safety staff grow professionally. Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Ability to convey safety concepts to diverse audiences and promote shared safety goals. Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated on industry trends. Role model for safety staff, operating with honesty and integrity. Certifications
Valid Driver’s License, good driving record required. CPR/First Aid certification preferred. OSHA 30-Hour and 10-Hour Trainer certification preferred. GSP, ASP, CSP or CHST Designation preferred. Working Environment
Exposure to varying weather conditions and in-office setting. Extended periods of walking, standing, climbing, or bending while inspecting work areas and safety practices. Must navigate safely around heavy equipment, hazardous materials, and other risks. May require lifting up to 50 lbs. Some travel may be required. Please Note:
This job description is intended as a general summary of the position; the individual will be expected to perform any functions or responsibilities assigned from time to time. The description may change over time. This description is not intended to limit or impact the work to be performed. Kokosing is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action federal and state contractor. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class. Note: Some lines below reference job postings and alerts; they are retained only for context where relevant and can be removed if not needed for presentation.
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