Safety Manager​/Assistant Safety Director - Swing Shift

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing
• Vision insurance

Client / Engagement: Hudson Tunnel Project

Location: New York and New Jersey (On-site)

Shift /

Schedule:

Afternoons/Evenings (Swing Shift)

Salary Range: $,000 (depending on experience)

Employment Type: Full-time

The Hudson Tunnel Project is the busiest rail connection between New York, New Jersey, and the Northeast Corridor. The project will improve the capacity, reliability, and resiliency of commuter and intercity rail transit serving 800,000 daily passengers between Washington, D.C., New York, and New England. Supported by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the project is slated to receive nearly $12 billion in federal funding - the largest investment in a mass transit project in modern history.

Jaquith Consulting Group is seeking an experienced Safety Manager to support the Hudson Tunnel Project. The position is responsible for implementing, monitoring, and managing safety across heavy civil construction operations, and for building a safety culture that goes beyond baseline compliance.

• Implement and enforce Federal Railroad Administration Roadway Worker Protection requirements (49 CFR Part 214) for all work, including on-track safety programs, job briefings, watchman/lookout and flagging protocols, and workers' good-faith challenge rights.

• Ensure the project safety program satisfies FTA Capital Investment Grant oversight expectations, including support for the Project Management Oversight Contractor's reviews and the project's Safety and Security Management Plan.
• Lead or support the Safety and Security Certification process, maintaining the certifiable items list, verification records, and documentation required by the Gateway Development Commission and FTA.
• Apply Safety Management System (SMS) principles consistent with FTA's approach, and produce the safety metrics and reporting the federal funding agreement requires.

• Ensure compliance with OSHA construction and underground construction standards, which govern the private contractor workforce on both the New York and New Jersey sides.
• Meet site safety requirements, including Site Safety Training (SST) card verification for workers and supervisors, and coordinate with the required site safety roles where applicable.

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve the project-wide health and safety management system for tunneling and heavy civil operations.
• Set standards for a multibillion-dollar program and lead the development of the safety culture for the program.
• Review the DB contractor’s submittals, including safety plans, permits, and other documents, for regulatory compliance, and monitor work activities accordingly.
• Work with the safety team to develop and report daily on observations, negative and positive, that impact worksite safety.

• Lead task-based risk assessments and job hazard analyses for high-consequence tunneling activities: soft-ground and mixed-face excavation under the Hudson River, tunnel boring machine (TBM) operations, ground support, ventilation, confined-space entry, hoisting, and, where used, compressed-air work.
• Design error-tolerant controls.
• Identify ways to make safe work easier through innovative procedures, better tools, and alternative materials, and champion those with operations leadership.

• Lead incident, near-miss, and high-potential-event investigations.
• Track corrective and preventive actions to closure and feed findings back into risk…