Health and Safety Manager

The Health and Safety Manager is responsible for a portfolio of projects across the Lower Mainland with Axiom Builders. Your role will involve extensive travel to sites including master plan communities, luxury high-rises and wood-frame projects. Your focus will be ensuring the sites are following all Company safety rules and procedures and legislative requirements. You will be working closely with Operations Leadership, the Director of Health & Safety, Head Office and site teams to safeguard all projects under your portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, train, and mentor  Construction Safety Officers (CSOs)  across projects in support of the site team to ensure legislative and Company safety requirements are being followed;
• Advise on safety investigations, reporting, training requirements and process and ensure follow up actions are taken;
• Implement procedures and develop initiatives that are in compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and corporate safety policies;
• Measure and evaluate overall HS&E performance, and deliver solutions and advice for inefficiencies to senior leadership of related teams;
• Conduct spot checks with work sites to ensure compliance, including assessing safety protocol of subcontractors and their teams.

What you Bring

The ideal Health and Safety Manager is balanced in technical and functional health and safety experience. You are looking for a leadership opportunity that will allow you to make a positive impact on operations, procedures, and the larger safety team. An influential safety leader at Axiom Builders is committed to doing the right thing and possesses effective interpersonal skills, making you a fantastic ambassador for Axiom Builders and employee safety in our organization. You are a role model to our junior members and represent Axiom Builder's values and commitment to safety with subtrades, partners, clients, and government agencies. 

Skills and Experience

• Eight (8+) years of experience in construction safety working on high-rise residential or large scale commercial projects
• Minimum of five (5) years in a safety supervisory role;
• Must have access to reliable transportation;
• Proficiency with safety data and related technology;
• Knowledge of applicable provincial health and safety  regulations for the construction industry;
• Ability to communicate and enforce safety protocol with on-site and management level staff.