Associate Director, Health and Safety

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year EHS roadmap for H&S.
• Use risk assessment results to prioritize tasks.
• Communicate and collaborate with internal partners and union representatives on safety programs, practices, and training requirements.
• Lead a team of H&S professionals.
• Develop their skills to ensure they have technical and functional capabilities.
• Design and implement rigorous safety protocols tailored to risks to reduce serious incidents and fatalities, including electrical safety, confined space, trenching/excavation, work at height, and complex traffic control.
• Transition the organization from reactive metrics and compliance to predictive safety.
• Build and leverage leading-indicator dashboards to identify risk trends before incidents occur.
• Oversee the investigation of all critical incidents, ensuring that root cause analysis triggers systemic operational changes through the use of the hierarchy of controls.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with federal and state regulatory bodies (e.g., OSHA).
• Cultivate a progressive, human-organizational performance (HOP) safety culture in which field teams feel psychologically safe reporting near-misses and using learning teams to understand the operational reality of high-risk work and collaborate on safety innovations.
• Assist the field with contractor safety management, as needed.
• Partner with Risk Management on injuries related to workers' comp claims.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• EHS work experience in engineering, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, environmental discipline, or equivalent technical field.
• Experience with EHS compliance and regulations.
• One or more of the following: Bachelor's or advanced degree in an EHS-related discipline, experience managing people, demonstrated collaboration skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively at all levels of the organization, telecommunications industry experience, professional certification (Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist), experience with Google Suite (docs, sheets, slides, etc.), experience working with unions.