Safety Specialist - Underground/Heavy Civil Construction

Requisition ID: 176369

Job Level: Entry Level

Home District/Group: Underground District

Department: Safety

Market: Mining

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview

We are hiring Safety Specialists for Underground projects around North America, and offer a long term career in Safety with diverse project assignments. Our Safety Specialists are trainers in safety, strong communicators, leaders to guide the team in safety practices and protocol, investigators, auditors, motivators, mentors and relationship builders! At Kiewit - our guiding principle for every project and in every office is - "Nobody Gets Hurt". Our Safety teams support and reinforce job site safety by ensuring that the project teams are following our safety guidelines and procedures, provide detailed reporting, and safety reviews at the sites which could involve different shifts and weekends.

During your career in our Underground group, you can expect to support complex Underground projects across diverse market areas, such as Transportation, Power, Oil and Gas, Mining and Water/Wastewater. This means longevity, stability for your career and new experiences that offer growth to your career! We have the experience, technology and equipment to complete even the most complex tunneling projects. Our long-standing success is built on our depth of expertise, safety record, access to specialty equipment and the ability to self-perform work. Key capabilities for our underground team include tunnel boring machine operations, sequential excavation, drill and blast, shaft excavation and tunnel rehabilitation.

We provide development opportunities, competitive salaries, excellent benefits and other great Safety professionals for you to work and learn from. If you have a degree in Safety, and two or more years performing Safety oversite for heavy civil construction, and believe in that philosophy, and create, support and reinforce the commitment to safety on your projects - we would love to talk with you.

District Overview

The Underground District has been constructing underground facilities (tunneling, deep foundations) since 1949, and has completed more than 100 underground-related projects totaling more than $1B. We are recognized as a leader in the tunneling industry and our services include TBM Rock, TBM Soft Ground, Sequential Excavation, Drill and Blast, Shaft Excavation, Concrete, Tunnel Rehab, and Numerous Trenchless Methods.

Location

One of the many things that makes Kiewit’s culture unique is that we go where the work is, which exposes your career to abundant opportunities. We relocate our teams based on the work that is available, combined with the development plans, skill sets and career goals of each team member. This means your Kiewit adventure is custom-designed to meet our shared needs.

Our current need is for someone to be based in Lead, SD on our underground mine project. This project is a Mile underground and will be expected to spend a majority of the shift in this environment.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

a. Four hour BEDC EHS Standards

b. Thirty- hour OSHA construction safety and health training;

c. hazardous waste remediation or forty hour HAZWOPER training;

d. Resource Conservation Recovery Act/DOT hazardous waste/manifesting training

e. Confined space training or permit

f. BEDC spill prevention and control

g. Control of hazardous energy sources (lockout/tagout);

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We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.