Job Title Safety Manager

Insituform Technologies, LLC is looking for an experienced Safety Manager in Batesville, MS.

Insituform Technologies, LLC, an Aegion company, is a leading worldwide provider of cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) and other technologies and services for the rehabilitation of pipeline systems.

Insituform’s businesses consist of sewer, drinking water, and energy and mining pipeline rehabilitation and protection.

The company provides cost-effective solutions to remediate operational, health, regulatory and environmental problems resulting from aging and defective pipelines.

Insituform’s technologies allow its customers to avoid the extraordinary expense and extreme disruption that can result from traditional “dig and replace” methods.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall management of a region’s safety compliance processes and procedures.
• Work with regulatory agencies to ensure compliance.
• Provides problem resolution that results in changes and/or enhancements to processes and/or projects.
• Maintains awareness and the information and files of the related requirements of OSHA and suppliers, and internal and external clients.
• Maintains a level of continuing education on safety matters to ensure the ability to interpret, implement and train in all relevant safety requirements. 
• Manages the safety education program including orientation, toolbox meetings, quarterly training days, stand down training, and specific specialty training.
• Manages the forms and reporting procedures required by OSHA, EPA, and other government agencies, while using these agencies as advisory resources for planning and executing the corporate safety program. 
• Provides reporting procedures for, and maintains records of, employee safety performance.
• Provides reporting procedures form and investigates any accidents, safety incidents, or near misses.
• Becomes personally qualified to train others in confined space entry procedures, and other safety related skills and requirements
• Identifies, schedules, and maintains training programs on safety requirements and skills for all levels of employees.
• Files and records the material generated from field safety programs such as Toolbox meetings, site and equipment inspections, monthly safety meetings, etc.
• Performs random inspections of facility, equipment, and vehicles.

  Reports findings to regional management.

• Make management aware of the degree of risk in any operations or procedures that could be deemed hazardous to personnel, equipment, or the project in any way.
• Provides individual counseling, when necessary, on matters of safety.
• Assist in ensuring that all levels of management have total knowledge and awareness of company safety policies and procedures, and to make management aware of their responsibility to maintain a high level of safety on all job sites and in all facilities.

Physical Demands / Work Environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical Demands : In the performance of duties for this position, the employee is: regularly required to sit, talk, and hear; frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, occasionally required to stand, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and taste or smell; regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds (occasionally up to 25 pounds).

  Vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, peripheral, and color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

  Ability for extended concentration.

• Work Environment: In performing the duties for this job, the employee will generally work in an office type environment but will occasionally be required to work in outside weather conditions (occasionally near job sites with moving vehicles and mechanical operations).

  Will be occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles.

  The noise level is usually moderate.

  Travel by automobile and airplane required.

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Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of progressive safety experience in a manufacturing environment, required
• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university
• Experience working with regulatory agencies, external auditors, and internal clients, required
• Experience with Voluntary Protection Programs required
• Experience building and delivering safety training, required
• Functional knowledge of Fleet DOT processes
• Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations; draft reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; effectively present information to individuals or groups (management, clients, customers, general public) and respond to questions.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to perform arithmetic calculations and apply basic statistical, algebraic and geometric concepts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, volumes, etc.
• Reasoning Skills: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where limited standardization exists and interpret various instructions in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Leadership Skills : Position requires individual to have strong interpersonal skills with ability to motivate and empower, to be a strong communicator able to take initiative and function independently.

  Must be capable of making people management decisions and comfortable in a management position.

• Personal Attributes: Position requires the individual to be a self-starter and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Computer-Based : Ability to work with complex spreadsheets, databases, and presentation software.

  Ability to learn new applications quickly.

  Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) required.

We offer a competitive salary with career growth opportunities and a full benefits package including medical, dental, and vision Insurance, prescription drug coverage, annual bonus potential, 401k matching, tuition assistance, overtime pay, paid time off, and much more.

Aegion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal opportunity is a sound and just concept to which Aegion is firmly bound.

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