Safety Director

About the role

The Safety Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the company’s safety and risk management programs across both prefabrication operations and field installation crews. This role leads the organization in creating a best-in-class safety culture focused on proactiveness, and accountability embedded directly into production.

Responsibilities

• Promote a Safety Culture: Champion a "think safe- work safe" culture across all levels of the organization and collaborate with management and employees to motivate and ensure engagement and accountability in safety initiatives.
• Establish and communicate a clear company-wide safety vision, strategy, and expectations aligned with “best-in-class” performance.
• Drive a behavior-based safety culture that emphasizes safe production is the expectation- not a tradeoff. Employees at all levels are: Expected to identify hazards Empowered to initiate improvements or stop work Held accountable for unsafe behaviors
• Lead initiatives that reinforce daily safety ownership at the crew or jig level. Partner with operations leadership to ensure safety is integrated into planning, scheduling, and production expectations (not treated as a parallel function).
• Create a structured system for progressive discipline and corrective action tracking.
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Conduct regular site and prefab facility inspections, audits, and job hazard analyses (JHAs) to proactively identify potential hazards and implement corrective measures to eliminate or minimize risks.
• Train and educate: Oversee the development of safety training programs for employees, managers, and subcontractors on safe work practices, hazard recognition, emergency response, and proper handling of materials or equipment. Develop front line supervisors’ safety leadership so that safety is owned at the crew level, not just by the safety staff.
• Claims Management & Risk Control: Actively manage WC, GL, Auto claims across insurance carriers, third party administrators, legal, and internal HR/Operations. Implement best practices in reducing claim severity and return to work programs. Identify root causes to feed changes back to training & enforcement.
• Policy and Program Development: Create, implement, and update comprehensive health and safety policies, procedures, and manuals in compliance with regulatory requirements. Data Analysis and Metrics: Oversee tracking, analysis, and reporting on safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), trends, and incident rates to leadership to drive continuous improvement.
• Oversee Safety Manager’s development of project and task specific safety programs such as JSA’s. Attend Safety Manager led Safety Committee meetings to receive feedback and drive safety initiatives. Attend or conduct meetings when required. Ensure that all employees achieve the proper training requirements as per the OSHA and company standards. If necessary, facilitate training for site personnel for compliance. Stop at once any violation or unsafe practice.
• Oversee Safety Manager led investigation of incidents, root cause analysis, reporting, trend development, and corrective actions. Annually Review and update the company Health and Safety Program to ensure compliance with Local, State, and Federal Regulations and Requirements.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Required Education And Experience: Associates or bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Health, Industrial Engineering, or related fields. OSHA 30 Construction Industry and/or General Industry Certification CSP, CSD, OSHA 500, CHST (preferred)
• 7-10 years’ experience in a safety leadership role proven to establish and improve safety culture.
• Proficiency in MS Office 365
• Prior experience in conducting safety training both on-site and in a classroom setting

Supervisory/ Management Requirements

• Oversee safety manager
• Oversee admin services staff with partial safety admin responsibilities.