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Get Access To All JobsAs a Senior Safety Manager, you will ensure the safety of employees, trade partners, and the general public on our world class projects. The Safety Manager is responsible for creating a culture of care while enforcing Clark's Safety and Health Policy, as well as local and federal safety standards on jobsites. This role leads employee safety education in partnership with project supervisors to develop safe work plans for all phases and tasks. To us, no project is successful unless it is built safely.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Clark safety culture on a project.
- Oversee and ensure the safety of employees, trade partners, and general public.
- Enforce corporate and project specific safety and health programs as well as federal, state, and local safety standards.
- Manage and mentor a staff as well as client expectations effectively.
- Identify known or potential exposures and recommend corrective action.
- Develop, coordinate, and implement overall project specific safety programs.
- Partner with field supervision to ensure safety hazard mitigation measures are included in the planning of project construction activities.
- Develop project specific safety education for jobsite personnel, including subcontractors, based upon upcoming work activities or recent at-risk trends.
- Drive and create a safety vision and aligns the team to deliver and achieve a safe workplace for everyone.
- Facilitate third party safety reviews including OSHA.
- Understand workers compensation and lead efforts in managing claims.
- Utilize experience to proactively mitigate upcoming safety challenges.
- Proactively identify and develop relationships with industry professionals to generate and win the right work.
- Take an active role in recruiting top industry talent to join the Clark team. Identify, hire, and retain outstanding people.
- Exceed our stakeholders’ expectations by anticipating their needs, desires, and goals.
Basic Qualifications
- 10 years of relevant construction safety experience with an undergraduate degree in safety and health (or related discipline) or demonstrated construction safety and trade experience.
- Ability to communicate and influence supervisors, peers, and external partners.
- Ability to manage large scale and high profile projects.
- Proof of training and experience in managing crane, fall protection, excavation, scaffolds, and heavy equipment safely.
- Exposure to preconstruction efforts.
- Ability to communicate effectively with, persuade, and gain buy-in from a broad range of stakeholders from a new craft worker to senior executive leader.
- Strength in managing multiple competing priorities in a deadline driven environment.
- Agile, energetic, data driven approach to achieving individual and organizational objectives while balancing short term and long term goals.
- Alignment to Clark Standards of Excellence: self-motivated, results oriented, adaptable, team player, accountable, ethical, innovative, resilient, builds relationships, builds people/teams and followership, sets direction and executes.
Preferred Qualifications
- OSHA 30 Hour
- CHST or CSP
- SMS certifications
- 1st Aid/CPR training
The work environment and requirements described below are representative of those necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role.
The Physical Side of the Role: This is an active, hands-on role. You can expect to be on your feet frequently, navigating active job sites with uneven terrain, stairs, ladders, and hoists. The work is physically demanding and requires a full range of motion, including bending, kneeling, and reaching. You’ll need to be comfortable frequently lifting and carrying materials up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 50 pounds. This role requires the ability to communicate effectively, as well as visual acuity for reading plans and inspecting work. The role does include desk time in the office that may require prolonged periods of sitting for tasks like computer work, document review, and meetings.
Your Work Environment: You’ll spend a significant amount of your time on active construction sites, which means being adaptable to all kinds of weather and moderate to loud noise levels, and comfortable in elevated or confined work areas with moving mechanical equipment and with the fast-paced nature of a project in progress. You will also spend time in a typical office setting with moderate noise levels. Your safety is our top priority, and you'll be expected to follow Clark Construction's safety policies and procedures, and all applicable laws, at all locations.
Our High-Performing Culture: This is a demanding, high-performance environment. We are looking for candidates who are energized by challenge, thrive under pressure, and are prepared to do what it takes to achieve exceptional results. Success in this role requires significant commitment, including flexibility to work extended hours, especially during critical project phases or client deadlines. Beyond regular working hours, there will be occasions where business needs require your attention, particularly for time-sensitive matters or emergencies. You are expected to monitor and respond to communications (phone calls, emails, text messages) as required to address these situations effectively. Your ability to manage these expectations and be responsive when critical issues arise is key to your success in this role and our collective success as a team.
A Drug Free Workplace: Clark promotes a drug free workplace. A pre-employment drug “fitness for duty” screening is required, and the company conducts random quarterly drug “fitness for duty” tests.
Clark offers a total compensation package that includes base salary, bonus potential, and a comprehensive benefits package including health/dental/vision benefits, paid time off, retirement/401k, and Company Contribution plan. Additional benefits include life insurance, commuter benefit, short & long term disability, fitness reimbursement, FSA, tuition reimbursement, back-up daycare, tutoring & family support benefits, EAP/Work-Life assistance, and a holiday contribution program. For this role the base salary range is $100,000 - 200,000. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. Base pay is one part of the Total Compensation Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
As a Senior Safety Manager, you will ensure the safety of employees, trade partners, and the general public on our world class projects. The Safety Manager is responsible for creating a culture of care while enforcing Clark's Safety and Health Policy, as well as local and federal safety standards on jobsites. This role leads employee safety education in partnership with project supervisors to develop safe work plans for all phases and tasks. To us, no project is successful unless it is built safely.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Clark safety culture on a project.
- Oversee and ensure the safety of employees, trade partners, and general public.
- Enforce corporate and project specific safety and health programs as well as federal, state, and local safety standards.
- Manage and mentor a staff as well as client expectations effectively.
- Identify known or potential exposures and recommend corrective action.
- Develop, coordinate, and implement overall project specific safety programs.
- Partner with field supervision to ensure safety hazard mitigation measures are included in the planning of project construction activities.
- Develop project specific safety education for jobsite personnel, including subcontractors, based upon upcoming work activities or recent at-risk trends.
- Drive and create a safety vision and aligns the team to deliver and achieve a safe workplace for everyone.
- Facilitate third party safety reviews including OSHA.
- Understand workers compensation and lead efforts in managing claims.
- Utilize experience to proactively mitigate upcoming safety challenges.
- Proactively identify and develop relationships with industry professionals to generate and win the right work.
- Take an active role in recruiting top industry talent to join the Clark team. Identify, hire, and retain outstanding people.
- Exceed our stakeholders’ expectations by anticipating their needs, desires, and goals.
Basic Qualifications
- 10 years of relevant construction safety experience with an undergraduate degree in safety and health (or related discipline) or demonstrated construction safety and trade experience.
- Ability to communicate and influence supervisors, peers, and external partners.
- Ability to manage large scale and high profile projects.
- Proof of training and experience in managing crane, fall protection, excavation, scaffolds, and heavy equipment safely.
- Exposure to preconstruction efforts.
- Ability to communicate effectively with, persuade, and gain buy-in from a broad range of stakeholders from a new craft worker to senior executive leader.
- Strength in managing multiple competing priorities in a deadline driven environment.
- Agile, energetic, data driven approach to achieving individual and organizational objectives while balancing short term and long term goals.
- Alignment to Clark Standards of Excellence: self-motivated, results oriented, adaptable, team player, accountable, ethical, innovative, resilient, builds relationships, builds people/teams and followership, sets direction and executes.
Preferred Qualifications
- OSHA 30 Hour
- CHST or CSP
- SMS certifications
- 1st Aid/CPR training
The work environment and requirements described below are representative of those necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role.
The Physical Side of the Role: This is an active, hands-on role. You can expect to be on your feet frequently, navigating active job sites with uneven terrain, stairs, ladders, and hoists. The work is physically demanding and requires a full range of motion, including bending, kneeling, and reaching. You’ll need to be comfortable frequently lifting and carrying materials up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 50 pounds. This role requires the ability to communicate effectively, as well as visual acuity for reading plans and inspecting work. The role does include desk time in the office that may require prolonged periods of sitting for tasks like computer work, document review, and meetings.
Your Work Environment: You’ll spend a significant amount of your time on active construction sites, which means being adaptable to all kinds of weather and moderate to loud noise levels, and comfortable in elevated or confined work areas with moving mechanical equipment and with the fast-paced nature of a project in progress. You will also spend time in a typical office setting with moderate noise levels. Your safety is our top priority, and you'll be expected to follow Clark Construction's safety policies and procedures, and all applicable laws, at all locations.
Our High-Performing Culture: This is a demanding, high-performance environment. We are looking for candidates who are energized by challenge, thrive under pressure, and are prepared to do what it takes to achieve exceptional results. Success in this role requires significant commitment, including flexibility to work extended hours, especially during critical project phases or client deadlines. Beyond regular working hours, there will be occasions where business needs require your attention, particularly for time-sensitive matters or emergencies. You are expected to monitor and respond to communications (phone calls, emails, text messages) as required to address these situations effectively. Your ability to manage these expectations and be responsive when critical issues arise is key to your success in this role and our collective success as a team.
A Drug Free Workplace: Clark promotes a drug free workplace. A pre-employment drug “fitness for duty” screening is required, and the company conducts random quarterly drug “fitness for duty” tests.
Clark offers a total compensation package that includes base salary, bonus potential, and a comprehensive benefits package including health/dental/vision benefits, paid time off, retirement/401k, and Company Contribution plan. Additional benefits include life insurance, commuter benefit, short & long term disability, fitness reimbursement, FSA, tuition reimbursement, back-up daycare, tutoring & family support benefits, EAP/Work-Life assistance, and a holiday contribution program. For this role the base salary range is $100,000 - 200,000. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. Base pay is one part of the Total Compensation Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Safety Specialist
Match your degree to the role
USCIS requires your degree field to directly relate to the Safety Specialist position. A degree in occupational health, industrial hygiene, environmental science, or safety engineering typically satisfies this. A general business or unrelated STEM degree may trigger an RFE.
Verify your SOC code before applying
Safety Specialists file under SOC 29-9021 (Occupational Health and Safety Specialists). Confirm your prospective employer's LCA lists this code. A mismatched SOC code can misclassify the role and undermine the specialty occupation argument at adjudication.
Search LCA-verified employers on Migrate Mate
Filter Safety Specialist roles by employers with active H-1B LCA filing history on Migrate Mate. This surfaces companies that have already cleared DOL's wage certification step, reducing the risk of pursuing employers who've never sponsored the role.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your location and experience level. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for SOC 29-9021 in the metro area where you'll work before accepting any offer.
Target industries with consistent H-1B filing history
Chemical manufacturing, utilities, aerospace, and large construction firms sponsor Safety Specialists more regularly than small contractors. OFLC disclosure data shows which industries certify LCAs for this occupation code, helping you prioritize employers already familiar with the process.
Confirm cap-gap coverage if you're on OPT
If your employer files your H-1B petition before your OPT expires and you're selected in the lottery, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization through September 30. USCIS issues a cap-gap receipt notice your employer should retain for E-Verify compliance.
H-1B Visa Safety Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Safety Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific related field such as occupational health, safety science, industrial hygiene, or environmental engineering. USCIS evaluates each petition individually. Roles that accept any degree field, or that only require certifications like CSP or OSHA 30, face a higher risk of an RFE challenging specialty occupation status.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Safety Specialist positions?
Employers in chemical manufacturing, oil and gas, aerospace, utilities, and large construction firms regularly sponsor Safety Specialists and have established LCA filing histories with DOL. You can find Safety Specialist roles at H-1B-sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate, which filters listings by verified LCA filing activity so you're targeting companies already familiar with the sponsorship process.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect a Safety Specialist H-1B offer?
Your employer must certify through DOL that your offered salary meets or exceeds the prevailing wage for SOC 29-9021 in your work location before USCIS will approve the petition. Wages are tiered from Level I to Level IV based on experience and job complexity. Use the OFLC Wage Search to verify the applicable wage for your metro area before finalizing your offer letter.
Can a Safety Specialist transfer H-1B status to a new employer mid-authorization?
Yes. Under AC21 portability, you can begin working for a new employer as soon as they file an H-1B transfer petition with USCIS, provided your current H-1B has been approved and you're maintaining valid status. The new employer must file a fresh I-129 and obtain LCA certification for your new work location and wage level before you start.
What O*NET classification applies to Safety Specialist roles, and why does it matter for H-1B petitions?
Safety Specialists typically fall under O*NET code 29-9021, classified as a Job Zone 4 occupation requiring substantial preparation and a relevant bachelor's degree. USCIS references O*NET when evaluating whether a role constitutes a specialty occupation. If your employer's job description maps to a lower job zone on O*NET, it weakens the specialty occupation argument and increases RFE risk.