Regional Safety Leader - Northern California

Branch Safety Program Leadership and Accountability

• Partner with Branch Managers and operating leaders to help them lead, manage, and improve their local safety programs.
• Help Branch Managers build consistent routines for safety meetings, field inspections, training, incident reviews, corrective action follow-up, and employee communication.
• Support and help lead branch safety committees while ensuring local leadership owns the agenda, action items, and follow-through.
• Strengthen accountability at the Branch Manager, Account Manager, Project Manager, Superintendent, Supervisor, Foreman, Safety Champion, and crew level.

Field Safety Presence, Inspections and Audits

• Establish a consistent HSE presence at branches, yards, shops, maintenance operations, enhancement work, and construction jobsites.
• Conduct field safety observations, jobsite walks, inspections, audits, and coaching conversations during branch and site visits.
• Evaluate safe work practices, PPE use, equipment operation, fleet and driver safety, shop/yard conditions, traffic exposure, utility awareness, and other field risks.
• Report deviations, assign or recommend corrective actions, and follow up with local leadership until items are closed and sustained.
• Reinforce Stop Work Authority and support employees and supervisors in stopping, escalating, and correcting unsafe work.
• Take immediate corrective action when serious health, safety, environmental, or regulatory concerns are identified.

Cagwin Safety Continuity

• Serve as the primary HSE support role for Cagwin operations, including regular branch, yard, shop, and jobsite presence.
• Aid in safety oversight and field support for Northern California construction operations, including project visits, observations, incident follow-up, and high-risk work planning.
• Support regional safety execution across landscape maintenance, enhancement, construction, fleet, equipment, shops, yards, and field operations.
• Help local leaders identify risk, correct unsafe conditions, improve behaviors, and close corrective actions without removing safety ownership from the operating teams.

Northern California Construction Support

• Assist construction leadership with field safety oversight on active Northern California projects.
• Support pre-job planning, job hazard analysis, site-specific safety planning, and hazard escalation for higher-risk work.
• Review and coach around construction exposures such as heavy equipment, traffic control, trenching/excavation, utilities, electrical hazards, material handling, lifting, fall exposures, subcontractor interface, and public/client exposure.
• Conduct construction site inspections and follow up with project leadership to ensure corrective actions are assigned, completed, and sustained.
• Help align construction operations with Sperber safety standards, regulatory requirements, and client/jobsite expectations.

Incident Management, Claims Support, and Root Cause Analysis

• As the internal incident management support resource for serious injuries, vehicle incidents, property damage, near misses, safety emergencies, and other HSE-related events.
• Lead or assist with incident investigations, root cause reviews, witness statements, photo documentation, corrective actions, and leadership communication.
• Work with local Safety Champions and branch leadership to ensure injuries and emergencies are properly managed and escalated.
• Coordinate with HR, claims, and operations when an incident may involve workers compensation, modified duty, return to work, or reasonable accommodation.
• Report on injury, vehicle, property damage, and near-miss trends, including root-cause findings, corrective actions, training needs, and compliance concerns.

Training, Communication, and Emergency Preparedness

• Oversee, support, and help ensure safety orientation training is provided for employees and new managers in the assigned region.
• Ensure managers understand emergency response procedures and know how to respond to serious incidents, injuries, regulatory visits, and escalation needs.
• Conduct employee and supervisor training on applicable safety programs, company standards, field procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Review safety training and tailgate topics periodically and recommend revisions, improvements, and updates.
• Create and distribute safety alerts, safety notices, seasonal hazard communications, lessons learned, and prevention messaging based on incidents, trends, and field observations.

Compliance, Reporting and Program Improvement

• Support compliance with federal, state, and local safety and health laws, regulations, codes, and company standards, including OSHA and Cal/OSHA requirements.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of required OSHA recordkeeping, reporting, and injury trend logs in coordination with HSE, HR, and local leadership.
• Aid in injury, vehicle, property damage, near miss, inspection, and training data analysis to identify trends and prevention opportunities.
• Promote the company vision, values, standards of operation, Stop Work Authority, and safe production expectations.
• Partner with the Vice President of Health, Safety and Environment on safety initiatives, audits, scorecards, program rollouts, and regional improvement plans.
• Perform additional health, safety, environmental, and risk control duties as assigned.