Director of Health & Safety
Location: Northampton, MA
Employment Type: Full-Time
About BluRoc
BluRoc is a growing provider of access, ground protection, and temporary roadway solutions supporting critical infrastructure, including powerline, utility, oil & gas pipeline, construction, and other remote-access projects.
Position Description
The Director of Health and Safety is directly responsible for managing the safety and risk associated with construction projects and company operations. They are responsible for proactively planning, directing and implementing the Company's safety program to ensure a safe, healthy and accident-free work environment. The Safety Director oversees the Field Safety Managers, Coordinators and the Communications & ESR Manger, in ensuring each construction project is conducting operations in a safe manner for the protection of our employees, clients, subcontractors and the general public. The Safety Director sets the tone for corporate safety and risk management, demonstrates strong leadership skills, works well in a team environment, has excellent communication skills, and strives to enrich the Company Culture.
Core Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Review, redesign (where needed) and implement enterprise-wide health, safety, and environmental strategies aligned with business goals.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensures adherence to standards from agencies such as OSHA, the EPA, and local/state/provincial regulations.
- Risk & Financial Management: Oversees incident investigations, risk assessments, safety budgets, workers’ compensation costs, and insurance risk.
- Board & Executive Reporting: Translates safety performance data (such as incident rates and risk exposure) into executive-level business metrics.
- Culture & Training: Builds organization-wide safety accountability through training programs, safety committees, and proactive hazard reporting
Qualifications
Position Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Health and Safety, Safety Engineering, Environmental Health, or related field required
- Minimum 10 years of occupational health and safety experience in an industrial environment required
- Extensive knowledge of current company safety policies and applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to conduct training
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills
Personal Attributes
Interpersonal Communication Navigate and relate with all levels of the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Integrity and Trust--Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful individual; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidence; admits mistakes; does not misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
Team Building--Creates unity and productivity of team under management; team members state that they feel part of a high-performing team; is able to improve performance and motivate to excellence; develops team building and team motivating activities.
Presentation Skills--Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, direct reports, and bosses; is effective both inside and outside the organization.
Internal Partnering--Relating to peers on a personal level; cooperating with peers; joint problem solving; responding to accolades; handling peer conflict.