Safety Manager | Healthcare Construction

CORE Construction; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

CORE Construction seeks a Safety Manager for healthcare construction to lead safety, health, infection-control, and risk-management across active healthcare projects. This field-based leader ensures patient, visitor, employee, and public safety while maintaining OSHA and industry standards.

The role demands experience in occupied healthcare environments, stop-work authority, and strong leadership. Coordinate with Infection Prevention and facilities teams to maintain safety across critical

Qualifications

• 7+ years of construction safety experience, including at least 5 years directly related to healthcare construction safety.
• Experience as lead Safety Manager or Safety Professional on healthcare construction projects.
• Recent experience in occupied/operational hospitals, medical centers, outpatient facilities, clinics, laboratories, or similar healthcare environments.
• Experience implementing and enforcing ICRA and healthcare infection-control requirements.
• Strong knowledge of OSHA 29 CFR 1926 construction standards and trade-Hazards.
• Ability to independently identify hazards, enforce corrective action, and stop unsafe work.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary field safety leader for healthcare projects; maintain a daily field presence.
• Develop, implement, and maintain project safety plans complying with OSHA and owner requirements.
• Conduct inspections, audits, and risk assessments; enforce Safe Work Plans and JHAs.
• Lead infection-control compliance including barriers, negative air, HEPA, dust control, and containment.
• Lead investigations of incidents and near-misses; perform root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Support healthcare emergency response, drills, and life-safety planning.

Skills

Safety leadership

Hazard recognition

Stop-work authority

Communication

Contractor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Safety Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Environmental Health

Job description

Position Summary

The Safety Manager – Healthcare Construction leads safety, health, infection-control, and risk-management programs for CORE Construction healthcare projects. This field-based leader must have demonstrated success in occupied and operational healthcare environments and will protect patients, visitors, healthcare personnel, employees, subcontractors, and the public while maintaining compliance with OSHA requirements, healthcare facility standards, infection-control protocols, owner requirements, and CORE policies. The Safety Manager serves as a key safety authority on assigned projects and is expected to proactively identify risk, enforce corrective actions, and stop work when conditions could compromise worker safety, patient safety, infection prevention, life safety, or healthcare operations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Serve as the primary field safety leader for assigned healthcare projects and maintain a consistent daily field presence. Develop, implement, and maintain project-specific safety plans; ensure compliance with OSHA, applicable regulations, owner requirements, healthcare facility standards, and CORE policies. Conduct inspections, audits, observations, and risk assessments; review and enforce AHAs, JHAs, pre-task plans, shutdown procedures, and Safe Work Plans. Lead implementation and enforcement of ICRA and healthcare infection-control requirements, including barriers, containment, negative air, HEPA filtration, dust control, pressure relationships, temporary partitions, protected pathways, and construction access points. Coordinate closely with Infection Prevention, Facilities/Engineering, clinical leadership, Security, Risk Management, owners, and other healthcare stakeholders. Support safe phasing around active patient-care areas, critical systems, shutdowns, utility interruptions, tie-ins, demolition, above-ceiling work, emergency egress, and fire/life-safety systems. Monitor high-risk activities including hot work, electrical work, demolition, fall protection, roofing, excavation, confined spaces, lifting/rigging, silica-generating work, hazardous materials, and temporary utilities. Exercise stop-work authority when conditions create unacceptable risk and require timely corrective action before work resumes. Conduct project safety orientations, toolbox talks, and healthcare-specific safety/infection-control education; coach project leaders and trade partners on hazard recognition and risk mitigation. Lead investigations of incidents, serious near misses, property damage, environmental events, and high-potential occurrences, including root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions. Support healthcare-specific emergency response, shutdown planning, fire/life-safety planning, emergency drills, and required exercises. Maintain complete safety documentation, training records, inspection reports, incident records, corrective-action tracking, and regulatory documentation.

Minimum Qualifications

7+ years of construction safety experience, including at least 5 years directly related to healthcare construction safety. Demonstrated experience as a lead Safety Manager or Safety Professional on healthcare construction projects. Substantial, recent experience in occupied and operational hospitals, medical centers, outpatient facilities, clinics, laboratories, surgical facilities, or similar healthcare environments. Demonstrated field experience implementing and enforcing ICRA and healthcare infection-control requirements. Strong working knowledge of OSHA 29 CFR 1926 construction standards, construction means and methods, sequencing, and trade-specific hazards. Experience coordinating construction around active patient care, critical building systems, shutdowns, utility interruptions, and life-safety requirements. Demonstrated ability to independently identify hazards, enforce corrective action, and stop unsafe work. Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and field leadership skills. Education Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Safety Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Environmental Health, or related field preferred. Equivalent education and experience may be considered for candidates with substantial directly applicable healthcare construction safety experience.

Required Certifications

OSHA 30-Hour Construction, OSHA 500 or OSHA 510, Current First Aid/CPR/AED, ICRA healthcare construction certification or documented formal ICRA training, CHST or CSP.

CORE provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applications for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Our Mission is to earn the trust of our employees, building partners, and clients.

Achieving this mission begins by building teams with members who have unwavering, comprehensive trust in one another.

Integrity, Fairness, Continuous Improvement, and Results are not just our CORE Values; they are the foundational elements of trust itself.