Regional Health & Safety Manager

Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated Regional Health and Safety Manager to lead our USA health and safety team. We have offices across the USA where this position can be located.

Hatch helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

The USA is an expanding region and will require a person who is familiar with both OSHA and MSHA legislative requirements. The ideal candidate will have experience in building a safety culture that will support our goal of achieving no harm. Providing the proper level of support will require travel of between 15-25% of your time working within the parameters of Hatch’s world class H&S system. 

You will be tasked to roll out the system across the region with the assistance of our regional leadership team. This position reports to the Regional Director Project Management & Construction and functionally to the Global Director, Health & Safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Implementation, monitoring and optimization of the specifications and processes of the Hatch safety management system
• Carry out incident management (investigation, statistics, cause analysis and remedial measures)
• Coordinate and support the implementation of the Hatch Safety Management Information System (iPas SM) in the office and on projects
• Working towards implementation and compliance with legal, standard and project specific health and safety requirements
• Support innovative H&S initiatives to include client implementation
• Creation and implementation of risk assessments
• Preparation, support and participation in internal and external audits
• Ensure performance, assessment, training and development for health and safety staff
• Define local statutory and regulatory requirements and communicate with the team
• Ensure performance, assessment, training and development for all staff
• Provide workers compensation and rehabilitation support and advice.
• Assist the Global Director Health and Safety with promoting, representing and improving the Health & Safety practice.
• Facilitate the preparation and implementation of project health and safety plans
• Provide input, guidance and review of Health & Safety sections for proposals.
• Coordinate office/project weekly reports, monthly reports, audits, reviews and close out reports.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 15 years’ experience in health and safety, both in heavy industrial construction and an office setting, with at least 5 years as a manager.
• Bachelor degree in Health and Safety
• Ability to work in a self-directed environment
• Superior writing, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Equally comfortable in the office or a project site
• Possess a high level of computer skills
• Ability to lead and motivate staff and teams in health and safety.
• Possess the Certified Safety Professional designation or equivalent