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The Project Safety Director leads Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) policies and practices for a large-volume or high-risk construction project, overseeing the project site EH&S team. The role sets project safety direction with senior leadership, advises stakeholders, and serves as the primary owner liaison for EH&S matters. It also drives continuous improvement, workforce development, and consistent execution of safety plans and standards.
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Division: Philadelphia Main Project Location(s): Philadelphia, PA 19130 USA Minimum Years Experience: Travel Involved: Job Type: Regular Job Classification: Experienced Education: Bachelors Degree Job Family: Environmental Health and Safety Compensation: Salaried Exempt **Position Description:**Lead, direct, and enforce Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) policies and practices and oversee project site EH&S team. Primary responsibility for a large volume or high-risk project (~$1B or larger). Set EH&S direction and goals in collaboration with project senior leadership and communicate vision and strategic direction with project team. Lead continuous improvement efforts to achieve best in class safety culture. Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities: 1. Influence and motivate teams as visible leader on construction project site while modeling highest standards of Turner's Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) organization's policies, and processes. 2. Oversee EH&S on construction project site, cultivate strong and transparent working partnerships among project team to influence operational safety planning and decision making to improve safety outcomes. 3. Generate consistent and frequent in-person engagement with front line workers on project create continuous learning environment for EH&S and project team, provide coaching and mentoring to impart business and position acumen and further development of EH&S competencies. 4. Foster "one team" philosophy and collaborate with project team, client, Trade partners, and applicable Joint Venture (JV) partners to ensure establishment of required structure, processes, and people. 5. Establish and ensure consistent, aligned, and executed standards with company and EH&S policies and programs, project and client business priorities, and strategies. Communicate and coordinate with portfolio projects and reinforce consistency of EH&S program standards. 6. Serve as integrated partner and expert advisor to project stakeholders, and as primary liaison with owner for EH&S matters involving day-to-day construction project activities. 7. Establish project-specific EH&S strategic and operational plan, inclusive of high-risk activities, with clear and quantifiable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and milestones. Communicate plan to project leadership and with project team, and Trade partners responsible for scope of work to implement plan. Monitor progress to ensure consistent plan execution and conduct Plan Do Check Adjust (PDCA) activities and rapid improvement events to drive behaviors to achieve desired outcomes throughout project. 8. In collaboration with BU EH&S leader and local Human Resources, participate in project EH&S recruiting, onboarding, development, career progression, and succession for sustained staffing pipeline that meets forecasted requirements and results in retention: 9. Recommend and participate in selection of EH&S professionals assigned to lead safety efforts, including operations and Trade partners. 10. Evaluate qualifications and capabilities of employees leading safety efforts and determine developmental activities to increase employees' safety, leadership, and business acumen. 11. Mentor, coach, and develop employees and follow progress throughout project assignments. 12. Identify, eliminate, and control hazardous conditions that may lead to injury and/or property damage. 13. In collaboration with Operational partners, authorize work order changes, redirect work activities, and/or reallocate resources as necessary across all work production as it relates to safety. 14. Implement comprehensive workforce training at across project levels and coach, mentor, and educate project team and Trade partners to build safety acumen. 15. Contribute to development and management of project-specific EH&S budget. 16. Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as a signed. Qualifications: 1. Bachelor's Degree from accredited degree program in Occupational Safety & Health, Engineering, or related field of study, and minimum of 13 years of related construction safety experience, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience 2. Construction Health Safety Technician (CHST) certification required or within 6 months of appointment 3. Completed OSHA 30-hour training and maintain current First Aid/CPR/BBP and AED certification 4. Expert knowledge and application of safety and environmental principles and techniques 5. Expert knowledge Federal, State, and local Environmental Health & Safety regulations 6. Extensive experience in incident management and response 7. Cross-functional knowledge of general construction operations 8. Ability to assess construction processes to identify safety related exposures and lead implementation of corrective actions 9. Management experience with ability to delegate and direct work of others and able to manage budget and resources 10. Supervisory or management skills, able to mentor, guide, and develop teams 11. Commitment to excellence and passionate about EH&S, consistently set stretch goals and demonstrate persistence to achieve them 12. Critical thinking, sound judgment, and complex problem-solving skills 13. Influential leader in championing and leading change 14. Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office suite of applications, and EH&S related applications 15. Travel required, access to reliable transportation required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree from accredited degree program in Occupational Safety & Health, Engineering, or related field of study, and minimum of 13 years of related construction safety experience, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience Construction Health Safety Technician (CHST) certification required or within 6 months of appointment Completed OSHA 30-hour training and maintain current First Aid/CPR/BBP and AED certification Expert knowledge and application of safety and environmental principles and techniques
How this job compares
Set against the 1,094 open Environmental Health and Safety jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$88–127K/yr434 salary ranges
- US median$24–26/hr218 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 51 open Environmental Health and Safety jobs in Pennsylvania and 1,094 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- The Hershey Company5 open
- Turner Construction Company (this employer)4 open
- Westinghouse Electric Company4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 13 years of experience — more than three in four Environmental Health and Safety postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 744 postings).
- Education
- 383 of the 1,094 open Environmental Health and Safety jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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