For almost 50 years, Bay West has been instrumental in providing environmental consulting and remediation services to a large range of clients across the United States. Our clients depend on us for our attention to detail, safety record, highly skilled staff, and rapid response capabilities. As environmental regulations for air, land, and water have continued to evolve, Bay West’s engineers, scientists, and emergency response professionals have helped government and commercial enterprises navigate complexities and ongoing environmental remediation challenges.

Bay West is excited to add new talent to our team and has the following position available in Saint Paul, Minnesota!

POSITION INFORMATION

Title: Health & Safety Manager
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Basis of Pay: Salary paid bi-weekly (exempt)
Anticipated scheduled hours per week: 40

HOW YOU’D SUPPORT BAY WEST

In this critical role, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy working, business, and community environment for Bay West employee and other business stakeholders, while complying with federal, state and environmental and occupational health, and safety regulations.

• Conducts Health and Safety Orientation for new employees
• Leads Bay West’s Safety Committee - creates agenda, holds quarterly meetings, and posts/distributes the minutes, track action items for completion
• Vets and approves subcontractor pre-qualification safety packets
• Maintains OSHA 300 Recordkeeping, Federal EM 385-1-1 (2017) Incident Reporting, and First Report of Injury for workers’ compensation
• Continuously updates third party contractor vetting evaluation forms (ISNet World, PICs, Browz, Magellan, OMG)
• Ensures DOT program is complaint by maintain complete DOT Qualified Driver files and conducting annual driving record checks
• Investigates accidents and unsafe working conditions, studies possible causes, recommends remedial action, and reports them to Management. Formulates into a lessons-learned bulletin for all employees to review. Identifies where controls need to be implemented to reduce or eliminate hazards and advise if a new program or practice is required. Track incident reports to closure
• Reviews and approves Site Specific Health and Safety Plans (SSHP’s), Activity Hazards Analysis (AHAs), and Accident Prevention Plans (APPs), and Hazardous Evaluation Forms (HEFs)
• Inspects and maintains adequate supply of equipment including respiratory inventory, SCBAs, air monitoring equipment, Drager tubes, Fall Protection, Confined Space Entry Recue, Heat and Cold Stress supplies, First Aid, and MPCA instruments
• Management of EHS budget and procurement requirement, prioritize by compliance versus best practice, maintain budget estimates, and close coordination with CFO
• Oversees AED Medical Prescription/ Public Access Defibrillator Program for both St. Paul and Minneapolis offices
• Analyzes work environments and design programs to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, radiological, and biological agents or ergonomic factors that involve the impact of equipment design on a worker’s comfort or fatigue.
• Ensure compliance with federal and state environmental/occupational health and safety regulations by completing required reports, posting notifications, maintaining records, applying for permits, implementing controls, and developing and implementing practices and programs such as OSHA, EPA, and DOT.
• Determines medical exam and drug testing requirements based on employee job functions and contractual obligations
• Serve as back-up to Human Resources for medical exam compliance, drug and alcohol testing, and worker’s compensation reporting
• Directly supervises a small safety team
• Comply with all safety, employee, and HR policies, procedures, and practices
• Complete essential paperwork i.e., timecards, utilization, and daily reports in a timely and proper manner

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• 
  Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
• 10+ years of industrial or construction safety or related experience
• Currently have or willing to obtain a 40 Hour HAZWOPER certification
• First Aid and CPR training completed
• Possess or have 24-hour access to reliable means of transportation
• Ability to work independently
• Willingness to champion changes and improvements
• Must possess valid driver’s license
• Must be able to organize and prioritize multiple projects with multiple sub-tasks simultaneously
• Occasional standing and walking for periods of 4 to 8 hours
• Frequent reaching, grasping, and handling of items, and visually and aurally perceiving attributes of objects and materials on a regular basis without restrictions
• Occasionally lift up to 25 pounds
• While protected by appropriate personal protection equipment, occasionally audit our staff that work in non-hazardous and hazardous work environments including contaminated air, soil, dust, fumes, smoke, and other toxins
• Must be able to travel in-state and out of state overnight occasionally

BAY WEST BENEFITS

Bay West offers a great benefit package to eligible employees, including:

• Paid time off, including paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Ancillary benefits, including Health & Flexible Spending Accounts, Critical Illness and Accident insurance, and Supplemental Life insurance options
• Pre- and post- (ROTH) tax 401k retirement plan
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement of up to $2,500 per year
• Team events, like Shop Lunches, river cleanup volunteering opportunities, and annual Training Day
• And more!

Bay West LLC is an equal opportunity employer as well as a government contractor that shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a), which prohibits discrimination against qualified protected Veterans, and the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(A), which prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability.

Bay West is an equal employment employer F/M/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.