Safety Manager

Build What Matters. Build Your Future. 

Catamount builds the spaces communities depend on every day. From distribution centers that keep goods moving and medical facilities that provide critical care, to housing, restaurants, and fire stations serving local neighborhoods, our work supports real life. As a best-in-class, 100% employee-owned general contractor with a national reach, we complete projects across diverse markets and regions. This diversity empowers us, keeps our teams moving forward, and creates long-term opportunities for the people shaping our company.  

Why choose Catamount?  

We’re financially stable, growing, and built for the long haul. Our extensive national backlog and diverse project types provide stability, momentum, and opportunities. At Catamount, careers advance. Employee-owners can grow, move between project types and markets, and build long-term careers without starting over. Teams are carefully staffed, work-life balance is prioritized, and our people are seen as long-term assets. 

Diverse work. Real stability. Shared success. 

Position Overview:

The Safety Manager is responsible for continued guidance and enforcement of Catamount’s health and safety plan. Through project site visits and coordinating training sessions, the Safety Manager takes an active role in protecting employees of Catamount and our trade partners. The Safety Manager will take part in the continuous improvement and required modifications to the health and safety plan to ensure completeness, appropriateness and adherence of the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJs).

Role & Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are properly setup and supported to execute the safety program
• Conduct project site audits to review records, permits, field conditions, safe work practices, and assess employee knowledge of safety policies and procedures
• Walk site with Field team (as available), record finding and address with workers/field team. Identify unmitigated hazards and discuss remedy to correct. Items of serious nature are to be reported immediately to field leadership
• Ensure site operations team is completing all their responsibilities including holding orientations, completing AHAs/JSAs, completing site inspections, keeping safety program up to date, holding safety meetings and maintaining a culture of safety amongst the field staff
• Promote and own the safety program; ensure corporate programs and standards are executed
• Lead safety business plan efforts coordinated with Safety Director for division
• Take part in Mock-Ups as available to ensure crews understand requirements for their scopes of work
• Participate in committees for safety, employee health and wellness
• Create and host safety training programs
• Serve as a resource for employees; voice opinions on areas of improvement needed, and make suggestions and dictate corrections with a team approach
• Coordinate efforts to include individuals on job-sites that do not speak English
• Coordinate with Safety Director, third party safety company for inspections, trainings, and other duties as deemed necessary.
• Conduct root cause analysis for all incidents including injuries, near misses and property damage
• Lead team through OSHA investigations

Skills & Qualifications  

• Four-year occupational safety/health degree and 5 years of construction related safety management experience or 10 years combination of training and related safety experience.
• OSHA 30, First Aid and CPR certifications are required
• BCSP certifications (CSP, ASP, CHST) or a 4 year degree in Occupational Health and Safety are required
• Ability to recognize hazardous situations and implement corrective measures is essential
• Ability to evaluate information and analyze problems logically to develop solutions on a constant basis
• Thorough understanding of and ability to enforce all federal, state, local and company regulations
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, & Outlook

Compensation:

• In addition to offering competitive base pay, Catamount employees are eligible for additional incentives for merit/performance, project incentives, new hire referrals, and business development commissions. 

Why You’ll Love Working Here 

• A culture that develops leaders. Grow alongside experienced mentors in an environment rooted in accountability, trust, and shared success.  

• Work that builds careers. With projects spanning multiple markets, you’ll have opportunities to grow, specialize, and evolve as your career goals take shape. 

• 100% employee-owned. Our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) aligns our employee-owners with our mission. When Catamount succeeds, employee-owners share that success. 

• Benefits that support everyday life. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; life insurance; short- and long-term disability coverage; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); a 401(k); an ESOP; a generous VacationFlex program; paid sick time; and optional programs such as pet insurance and AFLAC accident, critical illness, and hospital policies. 

Please refer to the Summary Plan Descriptions for eligibility requirements and additional details. 

Catamount Constructors Incorporated does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or recruiting firms. Any resume submitted to any employee of Catamount without a prior executed agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of Catamount Constructors Incorporated. Recruiting agencies - thank you for not calling or emailing.

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace:

Catamount Constructors, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.