Safety Manager

Clark.wd5.clarkexternal

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Charlotte, NC Until 8/21/2026 First posted June 15, 2025 Last posted July 17, 2025
Job description

As a Safety Manager, you will ensure the safety of employees, trade partners, and the general public on our world class projects. The Safety Manager is responsible for creating a culture of care while enforcing Clark's Safety and Health Policy, as well as, local and federal safety standards on jobsites. This role leads employee safety education in partnership with project supervisors to develop safe work plans for all phases and tasks. To us, no project is successful unless it is built safely. 

Responsibilities 

  • Drive the Clark safety culture on a project 

  • Oversee and ensure the safety of employees, trade partners, and general public 

  • Enforce corporate and project specific safety and health programs as well as federal, state, and local safety standards 

  •  Mentor safety staff and assist in their development

  • Identify known or potential exposures and recommend corrective action

  • Develop, coordinate, and implement overall project specific safety programs 

  • Partner with field supervision to ensure safety hazard mitigation measures are included in the planning of project construction activities

  • Develop project specific safety education for jobsite personnel, including subcontractors, based upon upcoming work activities or recent at-risk trends

  • Drive and create a safety vision and aligns the team to deliver and achieve a safe workplace for everyone.

  • Facilitate third party safety reviews including OSHA

  • Teach safety-related topics within Clark beyond your jobsite

  • Assist with business plan objective and/or other corporate initiatives including OSHA, Red and Blue Alerts and Corporate policies and procedures

  • Proactively identify and develop relationships with industry professionals to generate and win the right work

  • Take an active role in recruiting top industry talent to join the Clark team. Identify, hire, and retain outstanding people

  • Exceed our stakeholders’ expectations by anticipating their needs, desires, and goals

Basic Qualifications 

  • 4+ years of relevant construction safety experience with an undergraduate degree in safety and health (or related discipline) or demonstrated construction safety and trade experience

  • Ability to communicate and influence supervisors, peers, and external partners

  • Proof of training and experience in managing crane, fall protection, excavation, scaffolds, and heavy equipment safely

  • Ability to communicate effectively with, persuade, and gain buy-in from a broad range of stakeholders from a new craft worker to senior executive leader 

  •  Strength in managing multiple competing priorities in a deadline driven environment 

  • Agile, energetic, data driven approach to achieving individual and organizational objectives while balancing short term and long term goals 

  • Alignment to Clark Standards of Excellence: self-motivated, results oriented, adaptable, team player, accountable, ethical, innovative, resilient, builds relationships, builds people/teams and followership, sets direction and executes  

 Preferred Qualifications 

  • OSHA 30 Hour

  • CHST or CSP

  • 1st Aid/CPR Training

  • EM 385

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About this role

Summary

Ensure safety of employees and public on construction projects.

Job title

Safety Manager

Experience level

4+ years

Industry

construction

Location requirements

Located in Charlotte, NC; remote work not allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

construction safetycommunicationcrane managementfall protectionexcavationscaffoldsheavy equipment

Preferred skills

OSHA 30 HourCHSTCSP1st Aid/CPREM 385

Specializations

safetyconstructionhealthtraining
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Charlotte, NC, USA

On-site City