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About the Role

Gilbane Building Company is seeking a Project Safety Director to provide senior health, safety, and wellbeing leadership for a large, complex construction project in Clay, New York. This role requires technical safety expertise and the ability to serve as a trusted advisor to project leadership, the client, trade partners, and the workforce, driving clear expectations around planning, risk management, accountability, and field execution. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience leading safety on large, complex construction projects and partnering with highly engaged clients with rigorous safety, reporting, documentation, and operational requirements.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior health and safety leader for the project, providing strategic direction and maintaining a visible and influential leadership presence.
Partner directly with project leadership to integrate health and safety into all phases of project planning and execution.
Establish clear expectations for project leadership and trade partners, fostering an environment where health and safety is an operational responsibility.
Model strong field leadership through consistent presence, engagement, coaching, and intervention.
Build credibility with field leadership and the workforce through strong construction knowledge and practical judgment.
Serve as Gilbane's principal project-level health and safety representative with the client and external stakeholders.
Develop productive working relationships with sophisticated clients, including those with mature safety programs and specific requirements.
Navigate differing Gilbane, client, contractual, and regulatory requirements to establish clear, practical, and executable expectations.
Challenge expectations constructively, resolve disagreements professionally, and protect Gilbane's interests without compromising health and safety.
Anticipate client concerns and emerging issues, addressing them proactively.
Present project safety performance, risks, incidents, trends, and improvement strategies to senior leadership.
Maintain credibility during difficult conversations and high-pressure situations.
Lead implementation and execution of the project-specific Health and Safety Plan and client requirements.
Lead the project's application of R3 (Recognize, Respond, Respect), emphasizing risk identification, control establishment, and verification.
Ensure significant health and safety risks are identified early to influence project planning and execution.
Maintain focus on high-energy and serious-injury-and-fatality potential exposures and the effectiveness of Direct Controls.
Lead and/or oversee critical-risk planning, High-Energy Control Assessments (HECAs), pre-task planning, inspections, and field verification.
Evaluate changing conditions and emerging project risks, ensuring controls are reevaluated.
Work directly with project operations and trade partners to implement corrective actions for unacceptable risk.
Participate actively in preconstruction, procurement, and planning discussions to identify risk.
Review scopes of work and trade partner safety qualifications, providing input on significant risks.
Partner with Purchasing and project leadership to incorporate health and safety requirements into trade partner agreements.
Establish clear safety expectations with trade partners before mobilization.
Engage directly with trade partner executives and senior operations leadership when necessary.
Verify alignment between project planning and field execution, intervening where gaps exist.
Establish and maintain a disciplined system of project inspections, verification activities, audits, and observations.
Analyze leading and lagging indicators to identify areas requiring intervention.
Translate performance data into specific operational actions for project leadership and trade partners.
Regularly communicate project health and safety performance, risks, and improvement priorities to leadership.
Lead incident reviews and ensure corrective actions address underlying systemic and operational conditions.
Promote organizational learning by identifying lessons for future planning and operations.
Lead, mentor, develop, and hold accountable the project's health and safety professionals.
Establish clear roles, responsibilities, expectations, and priorities for project Safety team members.
Evaluate project safety staffing needs and recommend adjustments.
Develop Safety team members into effective leaders, coaches, and operational partners.
Coach project superintendents, managers, engineers, and trade partner leadership in risk management and accountability.
Create an environment where employees and trade partners are empowered to raise concerns and stop work when appropriate.
Ensure project compliance with applicable health and safety regulations, Gilbane requirements, and contractual obligations.
Maintain current knowledge of regulatory developments and industry practices.
Manage interactions with OSHA and other regulatory authorities.
Support regulatory inspections, investigations, and associated project responses.
Identify and resolve conflicts or gaps between regulatory, owner, Gilbane, and trade contractor requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant construction safety leadership experience.
10+ years of progressive construction safety experience, including significant responsibility on large or complex projects.
Demonstrated experience leading health and safety on large-scale construction projects with significant operational complexity.
Demonstrated experience successfully managing relationships with demanding or highly involved clients, including organizations with mature internal safety organizations and project-specific requirements.
Demonstrated ability to influence Project Executives, Superintendents, Project Managers, client representatives, trade partner executives, and field supervision.
Strong working knowledge of applicable OSHA construction standards and construction risk-management principles.
Demonstrated experience with significant construction hazards including cranes and lifting operations, excavation and trenching, electrical and hazardous energy, working at heights, mobile equipment, material handling, temporary structures, and other high-energy work.
Demonstrated ability to lead effectively during high-pressure situations including serious incidents, client escalations, regulatory activity, and significant operational risk.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively from craft-level conversations through executive presentations.
Certified Safety Professional (CSP) is preferred.
Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST) is preferred.
OSHA 30-Hour Construction is preferred.
OSHA 500/502 or equivalent advanced OSHA training is preferred.
Experience supporting large, technically complex, mission-critical, advanced manufacturing, federal, healthcare, life sciences, aviation, or similarly demanding construction environments is preferred.
Experience working within projects where client requirements exceed the contractor's normal minimum standards is preferred.
Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.

Skills

Health and safety leadership
Risk management
Accountability
Field execution
Client relationship management
Communication (written and verbal)
Influencing stakeholders
Construction knowledge
Regulatory compliance
Incident investigation
Team leadership and development
Coaching
Strategic planning

Location

Clay, New York

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years of progressive construction safety experience
Significant responsibility on large or complex projects

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant construction safety leadership experience.

Salary/Compensations

For Upstate NY, this ranges from $170,000.00-$220,000.00 plus benefits and retirement program.

Benefits

Excellent total compensation package
Competitive health and welfare benefits
Generous profit-sharing/401k plan
Multi-dimensional training opportunities through Gilbane University
Opportunity to learn new industry skills daily

About the Company

Gilbane Building Company is a family-owned business with 45 offices, shaping communities since 1870.
Consistently recognized as one of the most reputable construction management firms in the country.
Committed to delivering projects safely and on-time.
Opportunity to build schools, labs, hospitals, corporate offices, sports arenas and more.
Dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

Equal Opportunity

Gilbane is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.