National Safety Director

Position Summary

The Director of Safety is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide safety strategy across a large, geographically dispersed, multi-state field services organization. This position will develop, implement, and continuously improve programs that reduce workplace injuries, prevent vehicle accidents, strengthen compliance, and create a proactive safety culture across all locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Safety Strategy & Leadership
• Develop and execute a comprehensive safety strategy aligned with company objectives, operational priorities, and growth initiatives.
• Build a safety culture focused on prevention, personal accountability, continuous improvement, and employee engagement.
• Partner with senior leadership, regional operations leaders, and General Managers to embed safety into daily operations.
• Establish consistent safety standards, processes, training, reporting, and expectations across all locations.
• Serve as the primary safety advisor to senior leadership and provide regular updates on safety performance, trends, risks, and improvement initiatives.
• Fleet Safety & Risk Management
• Lead policies and procedures for fleet safety for a 1,000+ vehicle fleet.
• Develop programs to reduce motor vehicle accidents, distracted driving, speeding, aggressive driving behaviors, and preventable incidents.
• Own fleet safety technology initiatives, including telematics, dash cameras, driver scoring, coaching programs, and corrective action processes.
• Partner with operations leaders to ensure consistent accountability for unsafe driving behaviors.
• Field Safety Operations
• Ensure compliance with applicable OSHA, DOT, EPA, and state/local safety requirements.
• Establish process and procedures for safety audits.
• Develop standards related to PPE, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, ladder safety, heat illness prevention, hazard communication, defensive driving, and jobsite safety practices.
• Incident Management & Workers' Compensation
• Lead and develop policies for incident reporting, investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action processes.
• Develop programs focused on reducing recordable injuries, lost time claims, vehicle accidents, severity rates, and Workers' compensation costs.
• Partner with insurance providers, brokers, and claims administrators to manage risk.
• Identify trends and create proactive prevention strategies.
• Training & Employee Engagement
• Build scalable safety training programs for new hires and exiting employee base.
• Develop safety communication campaigns that reinforce awareness and accountability.
• Create programs that encourage employee participation, hazard identification, and proactive reporting.
• Ensure safety expectations are embedded into onboarding and leadership development.
• Compliance & Reporting
• Maintain OSHA compliance programs, reporting, and recordkeeping.
• Develop safety dashboards and KPIs to measure organizational performance.
• Provide regular reporting on Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), Lost Time Incident Rate, Driver Safety Scores, and Safety Training Completion.
• Prepare safety updates for executive leadership and board-level reporting.

Qualifications

• Required:
• 7+ years of progressive safety leadership experience.
• Experience supporting a large multi-location, geographically dispersed workforce.
• Background managing fleet safety programs.
• Demonstrated success reducing accidents, injuries, and claims.
• Knowledge of OSHA regulations and safety management systems.
• Experience using data analytics to identify trends and drive improvement.
• Strong communication, training, influencing, and leadership skills.
• PREFERRED:
• Experience in home services, construction, utilities, logistics, transportation, facilities, or field services industries.
• Experience managing safety programs for 500+ vehicles.
• Experience with telematics, dash cameras, and fleet management technology.
• Professional certifications such as: - Certified Safety Professional (CSP) - Associate Safety Professional (ASP) - Certified Safety Manager (CSM) - OSHA 30

Physical Requirements

• Perform work while sitting and/or standing at an individual workstation or office.
• Communicate verbally via phone or other communication device.
• Able to stand, walk and sit; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone.
• Use hands to type, handle or feel objects or controls; reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally stoop, kneel, bend, climb stairs, crouch, and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Work is performed in office, at various business locations, and in the field.

Travel Requirements

Regular travel required, including overnight travel (approximately 40–50%) to conduct field visits, support operations, lead safety initiatives, and build relationships across company locations.

The Benefits

• Reliable, Year-Round Work
• Weekly Paychecks
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Company Matched 401k

About the Role

There is a lot of growth and opportunity so there is truly no ceiling!