Safety Manager - Mining Operations
Description
The Safety Manager is directly responsible for providing safety leadership and guidance to support company safety expectations. Leads the overall administration, coordination and evaluation of the safety and health functions for aggregate plants in the Mid-America Region.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Provide leadership and development for Safety Representatives.
- Provides location support through workplace visits to minimize compliance and behavior issues.
- Lead and participate in citation meetings with internal and external customers.
- Track and audit plant S&S and RTLB data and lead audits on locations higher than national MSHA standards.
- Develop and lead the safety audit process for the Division, Region, and Plants.
- On a monthly basis, analyze safety audit, near miss and observation data to track, provide updates, and direction for continuous improvement. Utilize data to provide a review and suggested improvement to Regional VP/GM’s and Production Managers.
- Lead and coordinate the annual refresher training for the Region.
- Provide direction on plant training curriculum for new hires and required annual training.
- Conduct monthly reviews of property damage analysis with suggested improvements provided for Regional VP/GM’s and Production Managers.
- Lead the efforts to annually review Part 46 and 48 training plans and ensure compliance with MSHA regulations.
- Provide direction for annual SOMA Industrial Hygiene assessments and training for all locations.
- Provide Division and District Leadership an update to annual SOMA data.
- Participate in quarterly workers’ compensation reviews and provide updates to the necessary business partners.
- Assist in identification, analysis and control of occupational hazards requiring the application of hazard resolution.
- Participates in developing department goals, objectives, and systems.
- Ensures compliance with safety policies and procedures and approves invoices for payment.
- Maintains MSHA and OSHA logs; maintains other records.
- Evaluates reports, decisions and results of department in relation to established goals. Recommends to Division Leadership new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements in efficiency of department and services performed.
- Performs other incidental and related duties as required and assigned.
Competencies
1. Safety Capacity
2. Ethical Conduct.
3. Strategic Thinking.
4. Leadership.
5. Teamwork
6. Decision Making.
7. High Sense of Urgency
8. Drive for Results
9. Relationship Building
10. Attention to Detail
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has four direct reports.
Work Environment
This job operates 80% of the time in mining locations to include quarries, mines and remote offices. 20% of the time will be in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. This position regularly requires long hours and weekend work.
Travel
Travel will be frequent and primarily within the Division and assigned District. Out-of-area and overnight travel will be expected.
Required Education and Experience
- A bachelor’s degree and five years’ of safety management experience, or nine years’ experience in the Safety field.
- Three years’ of experience in the mining industry, strongly preferred
Preferred Education and Experience
1. A bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety
2. MSHA Blue Card.
AAP/EEO Statement
Martin Marietta will provide equal opportunities to all employees and all applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, marital status, United States military veteran's status, or mental or physical disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice
At Martin Marietta we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all qualified applicants and teammates. We celebrate diversity and commit that qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.