Health & Safety Manager

• Position Title: Health & Safety Manager
• Location: Pottstown, PA – with regular presence at project sites, customer facilities, and the shop
• Position Type: Full-Time, Salary
• Reports To: Director of Business Operations

M.J. Nester Specialty Contractors provides expert services in welding, millwrighting, rigging, pipe fitting, plant relocation, and supplemental labor. Based in the greater Philadelphia area, we serve clients nationwide in commercial and industrial environments. Our slogan, “The NEW Industry Standard,” reflects our commitment to quality, safety and innovation.

• The Health & Safety Manager owns the company’s health and safety program across field and shop operations, including training and qualification currency, jobsite auditing, incident investigation, OSHA recordkeeping, workers compensation administration, and customer and regulatory compliance.
• The role carries stop-work authority. When conditions are unsafe, this position can halt the work, and is expected to use that authority without seeking permission first and without regard to schedule or cost consequence.
• Safety is delivered by field leadership, not by the safety function alone. This role sets the standard, verifies it in the field, and equips foremen and project managers to enforce it – working alongside Construction Services on execution while reporting to the Director of Business Operations, so that safety findings are not filtered through the schedule.

• Own the company’s written safety program, policies, and job-specific procedures, and keep them current with regulation, customer requirement, and the work actually performed.
• Maintain hazard-specific programs, including lockout and tagout, confined space, fall protection, hot work, rigging, powered industrial truck, and respiratory protection.
• Conduct job hazard analysis for new, unfamiliar, and high-risk scopes before work begins.
• Maintain the safety data sheet library, chemical inventory, and hazard communication program.
• Own and manage the annual safety budget, including training, equipment, and personal protective equipment, within limits set by the Director of Business Operations.
• Report program gaps and exposures promptly with a recommended remedy rather than a list of findings.

• Own the training matrix: what qualification each position requires, who currently holds it, and when it expires.
• Confirm that no employee is assigned work for which required training is missing or expired, and elevate when scheduling pressure conflicts with that requirement.
• Deliver and coordinate training, including OSHA 10 and 30, powered industrial truck, rigging, aerial lift, first aid and CPR, and lockout and tagout.
• Conduct new hire safety orientation with the Human Resources Generalist before first jobsite assignment.
• Maintain training and certification documentation, and provide currency data to Human Resources for the personnel file.
• Support apprenticeship and workforce development programs, and coach foremen and project managers on safety leadership.

• Conduct regular, documented jobsite and shop audits, weighted toward high-risk work rather than convenient locations.
• Verify that customer site rules, permits, lockout and tagout, and confined space requirements are followed without exception.
• Inspect equipment in use, including manlifts, forklifts, cranes, rigging gear, and welding equipment, and remove unsafe equipment from service.
• Correct unsafe conditions and behaviors in the moment with field leadership, and verify on a later visit that the correction held.
• Exercise stop-work authority when conditions warrant, and report the stoppage and its…