Company Overview:

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.

At Markon, we don't just offer jobs - we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.

Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make - which is why we're consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation's most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters - bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients' missions.

Join us and make a meaningful impact.

Markon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Safety Professional Specific Duties:

Construction Safety and Health Officer (CSHO) will prove OBO with professional expertise, advice, and guidance relating specifically to construction project site safety and health issues. This includes all phases of building construction operations, including site development, excavation, foundation, superstructure, exterior walls, mechanical systems, electrical, and interior finish work. CSHO ensures contractor and sub-contractor compliance with governing OBO construction safety regulations. As CSHO, the incumbent is responsible for assuring contractor compliance with U.S. Department of State and local host country construction safety and health rules and regulations at the project site.

The Safety Professional will be responsible for:

* Inspects, assesses, and reports on construction contractor safety programs at the project site to ensure OBO safety and health requirements are being properly implemented.

* Provides advice and direction to OBO/Project Director, develops, implements, and manages Injury/Illness Prevention Program and directs and coordinates the participation of OBO, the General Contractor and Post within that program, and creates or modifies safety policies.

* Conducts regular safety inspection of facilities, worksites, equipment, work practices, and safety devices to ensure compliance with required workplace safety standards and regulations; reports findings to management and recommends changes to establish safe work conditions; may compel cessation of work in order to address potential imminent hazards; monitors changes and/or makes follow-up inspections.

* Oversees and monitors contractor compliance with safety and health provisions of the construction contract, through daily on-site inspections to evaluate the effectiveness of the contractor's safety program to comply with OBO requirements.

* Ensures that qualified, competent persons have been designated at the project site to conduct scheduled sanitation and health inspections of food service, mess facilities, toilets, wash rooms, and change areas.

* Applies procedures and guidelines to eliminate or control hazardous conditions resulting from human error, equipment, and machine operations that may lead to injury of persons and/or damage to property. Provides advice to avoid construction accidents.

* Ensures the effectiveness of emergency evacuation plans in case of fire or other emergencies. Ensures that OBO and contractor plans are tested and evaluated to ensure effectiveness.

* Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual reports; maintains proper documentation to conform to OSHA record-keeping requirements.

* Reviews contractor safety programs; periodically performs site inspections as needed to ensure safety of construction sites.

* Investigates serious accidents and/or incidents of injury or property damage at worksites to ascertain cause and need for corrective action; develops and implements measures and strategies to prevent their recurrence; advises as to the keeping of records and coordinates the compilation of information necessary for Risk Management files and reports.

* Serves as safety resource to OBO and assists in complying with safety standards; provides consultation, guidance, and technical assistance on matters related to workplace safety and security, including assisting in the development of OBO-specific safety manuals and forms and advising of proper recordkeeping requirements; establishes standards and developing controls or work processes specific in order to minimize or eliminate hazards and maintain consistency with safety policy; disseminates information as appropriate.