Regional Safety Manager (Central Region)

KBS:  Regional Safety Manager

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) has an immediate full-time opportunity to join our team as a Regional Safety Manager. 

For more than fifty years, KBS has been providing essential facility services in North America to help clients maintain clean and healthy operations. With a culture driven by our core values – trust, reliability, service and doing things the right way, and rooted in a fundamental belief that all work is “honorable and we acknowledge the dignity of those who do it.” These values are embraced by our highly diverse and inclusive workforce.

If this sounds like you, then why wait, APPLY TODAY!!

Salary Range:  $80-110K (DOE)

Candidate must live in Central time zone

This role is remote with up to 70% travel

Position Summary

The Regional Safety Manager ensures that their region complies with OSHA health and safety rules and regulations. This role is responsible for establishing and maintaining safe workplace policies. Requires excellent attention to detail and the ability to assess opportunities for improving conditions, analyze hazards, and execute necessary safety programs. The Regional Safety Manager is responsible for compiling and maintaining necessary records, logs and other reports pertaining to safety, as required by the company, contractors, clients, Federal, State and Local regulations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducts safety meetings, audits, and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluates performance, identifies corrective action, and implements follow up assessments
• Plans, implements and conducts preventative care, safety, and compliance training programs
• Maintains comprehensive environmental safety & health programs as required by state laws and applicable by site and business unit
• Provides operations team with guidance on health and safety processes ensuring adherence to industry, local state, and federal guidelines and regulations
• Complies with customer expectations and SLAs
• Collaborates with site level management to develop an Emergency Action Plan
• Coordinates investigations and Root Cause Analysis for Near Miss and accident events
• Tracks safety inspection activities, reports, and correspondence
• Collaborates with other departments to create and approve manuals, internal policies and procedures in accordance with contract documents, good engineering practices, customer expectations, and federal, state, and local regulations.
• Ensures that all work is performed in accordance with approved manuals, internal policies and procedures, contract documents, good engineering practices and customer expectations
• Coordinates and monitors customer safety escalations and service request involving safety protocols
• Participates in team meetings and provides regular on-site project presence
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining Risk Assessment Plans, conducting risk assessments, administering monthly random safety questionnaires and unplanned safety observations
• Maintains Vendor Supplier Portals as it relates to Health and Safety information for region

Knowledge:

• Safety regulations and standards
• Hazard recognition
• Project management
• Process improvement tools
• Project controls
• Administrative policies and procedures

Experience:

• 5+ years of progressive Health and Safety Management experience preferred
• Employee Health and Safety (EHS)
• Service industry experience preferred
• MUST be bilingual English/Spanish 
• In health care settings, required to maintain up-to-date immunizations and annual flu shots

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or equivalent.  Or an equivalent combination of degree and experience
• Certifications in Employee Health and Safety (EHS)
• OSHA 10/30-hour certification ideal

What’s In It for You?

As a full-time KBS employee (30+ hours per week) you may qualify for benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs, and more!

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Sick Time
• Life Insurance
• Supplemental Health Insurance (E.G., Accident)
• 401k plan with a match or Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Plan
• Pet Insurance
• Perkspot Discount Program – discounts on travel, gyms, cell phones, restaurants, auto, apparel & electronics 

KBS considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, and expression, marital or military status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. KBS also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.