Manager, Construction Management, Safety Assurance

Kaiser Permanente; Pasadena, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena is seeking a Manager of Construction Management, Safety Assurance, to lead comprehensive safety programs for healthcare construction projects. The role emphasizes CSP expertise, staffing oversight, risk management, and regulatory compliance across complex environments.

The position focuses on developing safety strategies, coordinating with capital project teams, and ensuring safe, efficient project execution in a demanding healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree as listed in the Minimum Qualifications.
• 6+ years in construction management or related fields.
• 9+ years in construction management or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Develops and communicates safety strategies for large-scale construction and healthcare projects.
• Oversees staffing, safety operations, and regulatory compliance within programs.
• Leads risk management initiatives, including OCIP and insurance-related processes.
• Translates business plans into actionable safety requirements and schedules.
• Manages staff, performance, coaching, and development within safety teams.
• Oversees vendor relationships and procurement aligned with safety goals.
• Ensures compliance with fire safety, seismic, health hazards, and disaster preparedness standards.
• Maintains knowledge management and training programs for the team.
• Analyzes safety metrics and uses data to drive process improvements.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture Construction Management, Business Administration, Computer Sciences, Finance, Law, Planning, Interior Design, Cost Estimating, or related field

Minimum six (6) years of experience in construction management, field construction, design, construction/project management software, procurement, contract administration, a directly related field

Minimum nine (9) years of experience in construction management, field construction, design, construction/project management software, procurement, contract administration, a directly related field

Job description

Manager, Construction Management, Safety Assurance

Certified Safety Professional (CSP) with extensive experience managing large-scale construction and healthcare safety programs, including oversight of comprehensive staffing and safety operations. Demonstrated expertise in insurance-related risk management methods, healthcare safety projects, and Owner Controlled Insurance Programs (OCIP). Skilled in preconstruction planning, safety strategy development, regulatory compliance, and implementing proactive risk mitigation measures to support safe, efficient project execution across complex environments.

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for ensuring safe and efficient working conditions by implementing and administering various construction services safety, occupational health, hazardous material, and emergency preparedness programs; assessing levels of readiness, formulating suggested departmental goals and strategies while identify training elements that effectively mitigate the risks associated with construction department operations; and identifying and defining complex issues identified from the teams daily rounds and documentation and developing solutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.

• Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.

• Manages staff supporting construction operations by: driving the application of strategies and concepts to provide strategic guidance, coordination, and management of the support team; using judgment and discretion to define issues and develop solutions to resolve complex problems; maintaining contact with capital project teams; and representing the department subject matter expert to senior management in National Facilities Services (NFS) and KP.

• Manages staff supporting construction deliverables by: managing and coordinating staffing of various deliverables with responsibility and accountability for teams deliverables; implementing planning and execution of the training criteria, training tools, development, analysis, oversight of staffing, which includes performance management, core behaviors, and resource forecast to provide successful implementation with moderate input of high-level managers; managing the related financials and ensures they are managed within budget allocations while making recommendations for budget development with moderate senior management oversight; providing governance oversight and monitoring of performance against plan, ensuring measurement of business benefits and outcomes, and makes adjustments as needed; implementing activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans); and implementing allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure established management practices are in place.

• Contributes to vendor relationship management by: assessing current operational processes on an on-going basis while working with team to manage vendors, including vendor assessment and vendor performance analytics, to highlight trends and identify impactful process improvements that increase efficiency and effectiveness of vendor management; obtaining advanced research knowledge on vendor relationship management trends and applying strategies to business practices; and driving the team to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of vendor performance analytics and vendor assessment.

• Ensures KP compliance by: actively influencing the development of and participating in the implementation and evaluation of effective policies, standards, practices, and procedures in alignment with construction-related regulations; and driving the application of strategies and concepts to determine the best course of action to ensure that the buildings are in compliance with fire prevention, general safety, seismic conformance, health hazards protection, and disaster/emergency preparedness plans.

• Contributes to the management of knowledge and documents by: implementing tools to share professional and/or technical expertise to team members; encouraging team members to evolve template documents for continuous improvement; and influencing the content, design, and method of training and knowledge management practices to increase knowledge (e.g., Business Process Package, Community of Practice), and monitor subsequent performance.

• Utilizes data and metrics throughout construction management process by: analyzing and applying metrics to plan and scope complex future efforts (e.g., building the business case, timeline, resources required) in alignment with functional objectives; and driving the application of strategies for using metrics to monitor and improve upon performance.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Constructive Feedback
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation SkillsHealth Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Building
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Disaster Response
• Emergency PreparednessEmergency Response and Recovery
• Hazard Mitigation
• Safety Trend Analysis
• Safety and Security Laws
• Workplace Safety Awareness
• Architectural Engineering
• Computer Literacy
• Construction Industry
• Employee Training
• Employee/Labor Relations
• Financial Plan Budgeting
• Interpersonal Skills
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Safety and Environmental Health Management
• Strategic Planning -Design Diligence
• Technical Documentation

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Architecture Construction Management, Business Administration, Computer Sciences, Finance, Law, Planning, Interior Design, Cost Estimating, or related field AND minimum six (6) years of experience in construction management, field construction, design, construction/project management software, procurement, contract administration, a directly related field OR Minimum nine (9) years of experience in construction management, field construction, design, construction/project management software, procurement, contract administration, a directly related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hazardous Materials/Waste Management Certification, Hazardous Waste Operations & Emergency Response (HAZWOPER0).
• Safety Supervisor Certification (SSC), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Occupational Health and Safety Technician (OHST) or Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST).