Safety Manager - Helena​/Butte, MT

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CRH is the largest building materials company in North America. We develop sustainable solutions that build, connect, and improve our world. Our products are everywhere you live, go and work! Montana Materials & Construction, a CRH Company, is a leading supplier of aggregates, asphalt, and ready-mixed concrete in Anaconda, Butte, Great Falls and Helena, MT.

The Safety and Health Manager is responsible for implementation, oversight, and leadership with the division, region or operating company safety/health, risk management, and employee development programs. They will foster a collaborative relationship to be a seamless strategic business partner to the region president.

• Routinely visit jobsites, plants, shops and/or pits to assist field personnel and conduct hazard awareness and correction sessions with operations personnel.
• Ensure all lines of business have the tools necessary to safely perform tasks.
• Ensure risk assessment and/or jobsite evaluation is performed.
• Assist when needed to direct trucks in/out of jobsites to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of products.
• Assist construction and transportation crews with the development and distribution of internal traffic control plans.
• Oversight of the administration/maintenance of safety programs; ensuring any/all new developments in technology available for incident/injury prevention are continually evaluated.
• Ensuring that proper incident investigations are continually conducted for all occurrences, providing recommendations for risk/hazard reduction as applicable.
• Oversight (both direct and indirect) of multiple areas with organization/maintenance of both passive and active support files/records for all incidents/injuries, including: general liability, auto liability, workmen's compensation, and all other applicable claims.
• Coordinating the administration of incident claims, including negotiation/settlement of claims within proscribed limits of liability and directing other claims to the corresponding agencies.
• Maintaining liaison with all affiliated agencies, including:
  Insurance companies (WC, GL, AL), MSHA, OSHA, & State Labor Commissions.
• Conducting and oversight of site safety audit processes & assisting site personnel in selection/installment of safety controls.
• Assist/coach managers/superintendents in conducting hazard awareness, risk management, safety meetings, project specific safety requirements and human performance leadership.
• Assisting/Coaching operations managers/supervisors in conducting their own training programs. Collecting and making available safety/health material to operations supervisors for training needs.
• Stewarding/Implementing Employee Engagement philosophies, education, & growth strategies.
• Maintaining area/programs of responsibility to keep within economical demands of budgets.
• Providing direction/technical support to ensure employees' health and minimize potential employee exposures through established industrial hygiene practices (i.e. Respiratory Protection Program, Hearing Conservation Program, and Silica Awareness Program).
• Monitoring employee health hazard exposures using established industrial hygiene techniques and enabling all areas to carry out personal monitoring.
• Oversight of Selection & Coordination for occupational physicians to ensure injured employees are provided with the best available treatment while ensuring injury resolution and prevention.
• Implementing strategic plans to ensure continued success in meeting business objectives within Safety/Health, Safety Leadership, and Leadership education.
• Monitoring company safety results & compiling representative reports to executive leaders.
• Coaching operations managers/supervisors with the human performance management process including implementation, development, and facilitation.
• Developing creative communications methods to ensure the distribution and institutionalization of best practices through tools such as:
  PowerPoint, Word, Excel, e‑mail, SharePoint.
• Coordinate and schedule annual safety training, project specific safety trainings and develop/assist/create project specific safety plans and/or reporting as required by the project specifications. May be called upon to perform a variety of special projects and studies such as coordination of special concrete pours or construction projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and passion for employee safety/continuous improvement through innovation. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Ability to work independently without direct supervision, a willingness to work overtime and weekends as needed, and travel as needed outside of home office area to site locations.

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

• Bachelor's Degree in…