Safety Manager - WMATA Projects

SAFETY MANAGER/TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION--WMATA

We are looking for committed Safety Managers who will play a vital role in maintaining the highest safety standards across multiple construction sites. Your expertise will help cultivate a proactive safety culture, ensuring every team member operates in compliance with WMATA guidelines and OSHA regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive safety programs tailored to each project’s unique needs.
• Conduct routine site inspections, hazard assessments, and incident investigations using SiteDocs and Safety Culture platforms.
• Advocate continuous improvement in safety protocols by analyzing data, trends, and emerging best practices.
• Provide ongoing training, support, and guidance to project teams, ensuring all activities meet strict safety criteria
• Review contractor safety plans, job hazard analyses and site-specific procedures.
• Conduct field inspections, audits and compliance reviews; track corrective actions.
• Support incident investigations, safety meetings, training records and reporting.
• Coordinate safety oversight for multiple contractors and concurrent task orders, including work in active transit settings when applicable.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of construction safety or transit safety experience
• Current OSHA 30 Certification
• In-depth knowledge of OSHA standards, safety management systems, and relevant regulatory frameworks.
• Strong leadership skills to inspire and maintain a zero-incident mindset.
• Excellent communication abilities, including the capacity to deliver clear training sessions and safety briefings.

Preferred Qualifications ( Not substitutes for Mandatory Requirements)

• WMATA or comparable active-transit safety oversight experience.
• CHST, ASP or CSP certification.
• Environmental compliance, incident investigation and multi-contractor safety auditing.

Hourly Rate Range: Approximately $60 – $70 per hour; Commensurate with experience

Benefits

401(k) and 401(k) Employer Matching Health Insurance Dental Insurance Group Life Insurance, LTD and AD&D Paid Time Off Paid Holidays Professional Development Assistance PACO Group, Inc. is committed to furthering opportunities for everyone in the national construction market. The firm periodically reaffirms this commitment through an active affirmative action plan. It provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees without unlawful discrimination regarding race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, religion, military status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or citizenship status. As an equal opportunity employer, we have recruited, hired, promoted, and retained an ethnically and socially diverse professional staff. Our efforts to date have produced a multidisciplinary workforce - a record of diversity that extends to the highest levels of the firm's management.