Senior Director, Construction Management, Safety Assurance
Kaiser Permanente
- Location
- Oakland, CA, Flexible, Regular, Full-time, Day shift, 40 hours
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
About this role
Job Summary
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for ensuring safe and efficient working conditions under by overseeing and championing the organizations various construction services safety, occupational health, hazardous material, and emergency preparedness programs; driving strategic long-term planning of the organizations readiness in meeting corporate safety goals; and overseeing state-of-the-art solutions to highly-complex issues identified through teams daily rounds and documentation.
Essential Responsibilities
Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Models and drives continuous learning and oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; stays current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Acts as a thought leader on industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; shares best practices within and across teams to drive improvement. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact across teams. Oversees the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Engages strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and ensures resolution of escalated issues. Sets and communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; obtains and distributes resources. Anticipates and removes obstacles that impact performance; addresses performance gaps and implements contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives; serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership; provides influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy. Directs or influences construction operations by: developing and championing advanced strategies and concepts to provide expert strategic guidance, coordination, and management of the support teams area of expertise; designing and driving industry-leading solutions to highly complex problems while extending the understanding of their field expertise, and driving the progressive evolution of the organization; maintaining contact with managers in their areas of expertise and capital project team leaders; and consulting with senior and executive leadership in National Facilities Services (NFS) and KP on company-wide initiatives; Directs or influences construction deliverables by: accountable for an area of expertise by providing overall technical and strategic direction to senior leadership and directing the delivery and influences and coordinates enterprise staffing of various deliverables with responsibility and accountability for teams deliverables; accountable for the 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; accountable for managing