Senior safety support manager job description
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Senior safety support manager requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in senior safety support manager job postings.
Sample senior safety support manager requirements
- Bachelor's degree in safety engineering or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in safety management.
- Proficiency in OSHA standards and regulations.
- Advanced knowledge of safety protocols.
- Ability to develop safety policies and procedures.
Sample required senior safety support manager soft skills
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Strong problem solving and decision-making abilities.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams.
- Highly organized with attention to detail.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks.
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Cleco senior safety support manager job description
**Depending on the volume of applications, this position may close to external applicants before the job posting end date expires.**
We're committed to being the clean energy leader in Louisiana. By investing in renewables like solar and utilizing carbon capture and sequestration technology to make our air cleaner, we're in this for the long haul, because our state and future generations depend on it. Come be a part of our journey and Power Up Your Career at Cleco.
The Manager - Generation & Support Group Safety is a manager with comprehensive knowledge of power generation processes, safety and training principles, practices, concepts, and theories. Assists in the development of safety programs and strategies with a focus on the safety and training of generation and support group teams. Responsible for establishing and meeting Corporate safety goals for generation operations. Achieves results by directing, overseeing, coordinating and maintaining safety related activities, procedures, and resourcing, and ensures they are in line with corporate and functional strategy. Works with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure the Cleco safety program is up to date, comprehensive and is protective of employees and contractors.
**Key Responsibilities**
+ Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, diversity and inclusion, customer service, and operational excellence.
+ Conduct annual kick off safety meetings to share previous year results and outline current year goals and expectations along with new initiatives.
+ Supports Corporate Safety Director and assists with the development of safety initiatives based on incident data. Provides safety updates on each respective facility or location of responsibility as needed to afford accurate reporting to the executive leadership team and/or company board. Reporting data to include but not limited to safety incidents, strategy, programs, initiatives, performance challenges, and action plans to address opportunities.
+ Works to ensure all safety related policies and procedures are in compliance with all applicable rules, laws and regulations.
+ Ensures human performance tools are utilized in generation daily activities and provides coaching as needed
+ Tracks leading indicators in Generation and Support to determine trends and safety gaps and develops and implements a safety strategy based on these trends.
+ Ensure consistent applicability of safety and health rules, regulations and procedure across all generation and support group areas.
+ Works to ensure that all injuries are properly recorded within the company and to outside agencies (OSHA, EEI, SEE, SWESE)
+ Responsible for monitoring the number and quality of safety observations and report on progress, gaps, trends and participation throughout generation and support and make recommendations based on the data.
+ Conducts site visits to each assigned location to support the implementation and ownership of safety procedures, requirements, programs and initiatives.
+ Oversees the safety department's response to emergency situations and storm response within generation and support group functions.
+ Audit generation, support locations for adherence to set safety procedures and guidelines
+ Audit training curriculum and teaching methods for accuracy and effectiveness.
+ Work to improve overall safety culture and performance through EEI initiatives, including but not limited to monitoring, recording, auditing PSIF through the company. Developing and using identified precursors to eliminate hazards or LOWS that could lead to PSIFs.
+ Provides leadership, influence change and drive overall definition and execution of OSHA mandate training along with specific technical training. This is to include but not limited to: fork-lift, man-lift, CPR/AED/First aid, pole top rescue, flagger training etc.
+ Achieve results by planning and managing Generation and Support safety activities, training, procedures, and resourcing. Contribute to agile and complex projects necessitating the application of new and unique approaches, involves alignment to large strategic projects.
+ Owns and oversees the development of safety governance, standards, procedures and processes to ensure alignment with broader company goals and values.
+ Serve as escalation point for staff to report risks to delivery, ensuring business expectations, goals and objectives are understood and met across project teams. Escalate to functional leadership, when necessary.
+ Oversee and manage the performance of team, lead and guide the work of staff, monitor progress, develop their skills and hold them accountable to defined project milestones
+ Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical staff within their group.
+ Interact and influence Director level management on a regular basis to proactively support business objectives both within Generation and Support safety and across the overall corporate safety function.
+ Provides team members with individual and group development opportunities including training, goal setting, talent development, performance feedback and appraisals and general performance management
+ Manage Generation and Support safety profit and loss targets and operating budget, working with other corporate safety Managers and Director to track towards overall functional goals.
**Qualifications**
**Required Education, Skills & Experience**
+ Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Safety, Engineering, Industrial Technology, or other applicable curriculum.
+ 5+ years of plant and training experience
+ 5+ years of safety or utility related experience
+ 2-5+ years people management experience, preferred
+ Experience and ability to lead staff across projects towards a common compliance vision
+ Strong planning and project management skills
+ Strong interpersonal, communications, negotiation, writing, speaking, and listening skills
+ Strong analytical and critical thinking skills necessary to interpret business, workforce and KPIs/metrics into actionable insights and decision making
+ Ability to exercise sound judgment with little direction/guidance but also knows when to escalate issues to executive management
+ Proficient at functioning effectively within a diverse team environment, being capable of presenting ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner
+ This level is based only on availability in approved org design/structure; strict adherence is required.
+ Progression to this level is strictly restricted on the basis of critical individual capabilities and business requirements
**Key Competencies**
**BEHAVIORAL**
+ Attracts top talent
+ Balances stakeholders
+ Builds effective teams
+ Business insight
+ Communicates effectively
+ Courage
+ Demonstrates self-awareness
+ Develops talent
+ Drives Results
+ Drives vision and purpose
+ Ensures Accountability
+ Instills trust
+ Nimble learning
+ Plans and Aligns
+ Strategic mindset
+ Safety
**Technical**
+ Analytical Skills
+ ComplianceSalary dependent on experience, skills, education, and training.
We're committed to being the clean energy leader in Louisiana. By investing in renewables like solar and utilizing carbon capture and sequestration technology to make our air cleaner, we're in this for the long haul, because our state and future generations depend on it. Come be a part of our journey and Power Up Your Career at Cleco.
The Manager - Generation & Support Group Safety is a manager with comprehensive knowledge of power generation processes, safety and training principles, practices, concepts, and theories. Assists in the development of safety programs and strategies with a focus on the safety and training of generation and support group teams. Responsible for establishing and meeting Corporate safety goals for generation operations. Achieves results by directing, overseeing, coordinating and maintaining safety related activities, procedures, and resourcing, and ensures they are in line with corporate and functional strategy. Works with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure the Cleco safety program is up to date, comprehensive and is protective of employees and contractors.
**Key Responsibilities**
+ Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, diversity and inclusion, customer service, and operational excellence.
+ Conduct annual kick off safety meetings to share previous year results and outline current year goals and expectations along with new initiatives.
+ Supports Corporate Safety Director and assists with the development of safety initiatives based on incident data. Provides safety updates on each respective facility or location of responsibility as needed to afford accurate reporting to the executive leadership team and/or company board. Reporting data to include but not limited to safety incidents, strategy, programs, initiatives, performance challenges, and action plans to address opportunities.
+ Works to ensure all safety related policies and procedures are in compliance with all applicable rules, laws and regulations.
+ Ensures human performance tools are utilized in generation daily activities and provides coaching as needed
+ Tracks leading indicators in Generation and Support to determine trends and safety gaps and develops and implements a safety strategy based on these trends.
+ Ensure consistent applicability of safety and health rules, regulations and procedure across all generation and support group areas.
+ Works to ensure that all injuries are properly recorded within the company and to outside agencies (OSHA, EEI, SEE, SWESE)
+ Responsible for monitoring the number and quality of safety observations and report on progress, gaps, trends and participation throughout generation and support and make recommendations based on the data.
+ Conducts site visits to each assigned location to support the implementation and ownership of safety procedures, requirements, programs and initiatives.
+ Oversees the safety department's response to emergency situations and storm response within generation and support group functions.
+ Audit generation, support locations for adherence to set safety procedures and guidelines
+ Audit training curriculum and teaching methods for accuracy and effectiveness.
+ Work to improve overall safety culture and performance through EEI initiatives, including but not limited to monitoring, recording, auditing PSIF through the company. Developing and using identified precursors to eliminate hazards or LOWS that could lead to PSIFs.
+ Provides leadership, influence change and drive overall definition and execution of OSHA mandate training along with specific technical training. This is to include but not limited to: fork-lift, man-lift, CPR/AED/First aid, pole top rescue, flagger training etc.
+ Achieve results by planning and managing Generation and Support safety activities, training, procedures, and resourcing. Contribute to agile and complex projects necessitating the application of new and unique approaches, involves alignment to large strategic projects.
+ Owns and oversees the development of safety governance, standards, procedures and processes to ensure alignment with broader company goals and values.
+ Serve as escalation point for staff to report risks to delivery, ensuring business expectations, goals and objectives are understood and met across project teams. Escalate to functional leadership, when necessary.
+ Oversee and manage the performance of team, lead and guide the work of staff, monitor progress, develop their skills and hold them accountable to defined project milestones
+ Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical staff within their group.
+ Interact and influence Director level management on a regular basis to proactively support business objectives both within Generation and Support safety and across the overall corporate safety function.
+ Provides team members with individual and group development opportunities including training, goal setting, talent development, performance feedback and appraisals and general performance management
+ Manage Generation and Support safety profit and loss targets and operating budget, working with other corporate safety Managers and Director to track towards overall functional goals.
**Qualifications**
**Required Education, Skills & Experience**
+ Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Safety, Engineering, Industrial Technology, or other applicable curriculum.
+ 5+ years of plant and training experience
+ 5+ years of safety or utility related experience
+ 2-5+ years people management experience, preferred
+ Experience and ability to lead staff across projects towards a common compliance vision
+ Strong planning and project management skills
+ Strong interpersonal, communications, negotiation, writing, speaking, and listening skills
+ Strong analytical and critical thinking skills necessary to interpret business, workforce and KPIs/metrics into actionable insights and decision making
+ Ability to exercise sound judgment with little direction/guidance but also knows when to escalate issues to executive management
+ Proficient at functioning effectively within a diverse team environment, being capable of presenting ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner
+ This level is based only on availability in approved org design/structure; strict adherence is required.
+ Progression to this level is strictly restricted on the basis of critical individual capabilities and business requirements
**Key Competencies**
**BEHAVIORAL**
+ Attracts top talent
+ Balances stakeholders
+ Builds effective teams
+ Business insight
+ Communicates effectively
+ Courage
+ Demonstrates self-awareness
+ Develops talent
+ Drives Results
+ Drives vision and purpose
+ Ensures Accountability
+ Instills trust
+ Nimble learning
+ Plans and Aligns
+ Strategic mindset
+ Safety
**Technical**
+ Analytical Skills
+ ComplianceSalary dependent on experience, skills, education, and training.
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Updated March 14, 2024
Updated March 14, 2024