Site Safety Officer
Catamount Constructors · Dallas
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.
Summary: The Site Safety Health Officer is responsible for the implementation of the project‘s safety and health plan and ensures compliance to that plan.
Essential Duties and Overall Responsibilities:
Prior to the commencement of work on any project phase, the Site Safety Health Officer:
- Coordinates with project subcontractors and other site contractors those safety and health plan elements addressing worksite hazards to which employees of other contractors may be exposed
- Prepares a detailed analysis of all hazards associated with each phase of work
- Ensures that each employee entering the worksite has the skills and knowledge necessary to safely perform his or her assigned task through experience, training and, where required, certification
- Performs training that includes an initial worksite safety and health orientation, phase specific training addressing foreseen hazards and control measures associated with each phase of work upon which the employee is active, and continued safety and health "tool box" training
- ‘Trains the trainer’ – the SSHO ensures that all training is conducted by qualified personnel
- Ensures that each employee shall receive an initial safety and health orientation prior to performing any work on the project worksite. The orientation shall include a detailed review of the contents of the approved project safety and health plan, including provisions for subsequent employee access to the plan
- Reviews the approved hazard analysis for that phase with all employees on the affected work crew and provides training to ensure that all employees understand the potential hazards and the required protective measures
- Annotates a copy of each phase's hazard analysis with the name, signature, and date of attendance of all workers who have attended this training
- Provides advance notice to the Project Manager for all phase specific training sessions
- Conducts further phase specific training sessions for new employees on the work crew, under changing site conditions, or at the discretion of the SSHO to reinforce project safety and health requirements
- Enforces the Project Safety and Health Plan
- Willingness and ability to perform other tasks as required
Supervisory Responsibilities: The Site Safety Health Officer supervises all safety efforts and initiatives on site and can direct compliance of all personnel.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience: Four years of training and related experience. Thorough understanding of and ability to enforce all federal, state, local and company regulations. Ability to recognize hazardous situations and implement corrective measures essential.
Mathematical Skills: The Site Safety Health Officer will be required to detect details and recognize errors in numbers or in written materials such as charts or tables on a constant basis.
Reasoning Ability: The Site Safety Health Officer will be required to evaluate information and analyze problems logically to develop solutions on a constant basis.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: At least one of the following certifications are required: CSP, GSP, ASP, or CHST. In addition, your OSHA 500 must be current.
OSHA 30, BCSP, and First Aid and CPR are required.
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.
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