Safety Program Professional

About the role

The Safety Program Professional is responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving enterprise safety programs across the business. This role serves as the subject matter expert (SME) for one or more critical risk areas, including electrical safety, lockout/tagout (LOTO), fall protection, and crane operations. Collaborating with Operations, Human Resources, Risk Management, and Legal, this position ensures regulatory compliance, program consistency, and effective risk management across multiple states and business units.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the corporate subject matter expert (SME) for assigned high-risk safety programs.
• Develop, maintain, and update company safety standards, policies, procedures, and training materials.
• Monitor and interpret federal, state, and local regulatory requirements to assess organizational impacts.
• Lead periodic program reviews and gap assessments against regulatory mandates and industry best practices.
• Develop and maintain compliance tools, field resources, and audit/inspection protocols.
• Support incident investigations involving assigned safety program areas and assist in identifying sustainable corrective actions.
• Analyze unique and complex technical problems, delivering safety solutions where precedent may not exist.
• Analyze trends and recommend targeted improvements to reduce risk and improve organizational compliance.
• Collaborate with field safety teams to ensure consistent implementation of safety programs across all environments.
• Support regulatory agency inspections (including OSHA and state-level agencies) and manage official responses.
• Drive a proactive safety culture across multi-state operations by designing and implementing worker engagement initiatives.
• Participate in strategic initiatives to improve safety performance and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of OSHA and various state-level workplace safety requirements.
• Proven experience developing technical safety programs, standards, and training materials.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated expertise or program-specific certifications in one or more critical risk areas (e.g., NCCCO, NFPA 70E, or Competent Person training in excavation, scaffolding, or fall protection).
• Experience supporting safety initiatives across multi-state operations.
• Demonstrated experience conducting regulatory compliance audits and detailed risk assessments.
• Strong problem-solving capability with a track record of identifying and mitigating high-risk field hazards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 or more years of safety management experience within construction, industrial, utility, or manufacturing environments.

Skills

• Strong working knowledge of OSHA and various state-level workplace safety requirements.
• Proven experience developing technical safety programs, standards, and training materials.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated expertise or program-specific certifications in one or more critical risk areas (e.g., NCCCO, NFPA 70E, or Competent Person training in excavation, scaffolding, or fall protection).
• Experience supporting safety initiatives across multi-state operations.
• Demonstrated experience conducting regulatory compliance audits and detailed risk assessments.
• Strong problem-solving capability with a track record of identifying and mitigating high-risk field hazards.

Benefits

Competitive Wages $90,000 to $135,000 Annual Salary. Applicants please note that actual compensation is determined by several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, certifications, relevant education or training, and specific work location, among others.

Pay

$90,000 to $135,000 Annual Salary.

Schedule

Prolonged sitting and regular walking. Must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision and distance vision. Frequently required to reach with hands and arms; use hands to finger, handle, or feel. Workdays are scheduled from Monday through Friday. Typically, work hours begin and end between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm as scheduled with the position's supervisor.

Company Information

ACCO Engineered Systems is one of the largest mechanical contractors in the country. Since 1934, owners and builders have selected ACCO to design, install, and maintain more than 250,000 mechanical projects. ACCO is dedicated to the design, fabrication, installation, maintenance and service of commercial and industrial HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing, process piping, and building automation systems. Whether your project is a low or high-rise office building, a shopping mall, hospital, semi-conductor fabrication facility or pharmaceutical manufacturing plant…ACCO can design, build, install, and maintain a mechanical system to meet your needs. Here at ACCO, we are a part of something bigger. Just ask our customers: California Academy of Sciences, L.A. Live, and San Francisco 49ers Stadium. While we have been around for 80+ years, we continue to grow at a dynamic pace. And we are looking for talented individuals to join our team. What's great about working at ACCO is that we're a big enough company to be the leader in HVAC mechanical contracting in California and the Southwest U.S., but as a 100% employee-owned ESOP, we're a private company with a family-oriented feel. Several of our employees have worked at ACCO for twenty-five, thirty, and even over forty years! Together, the employees of ACCO are comprised of intelligent, dedicated, and entrepreneurial team members who put customers first and enjoy what they do. ACCO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AA M/F/V/D. We proudly hire U.S. Military Veterans, and those qualified are encouraged to apply. Equal Employment Opportunity is The Law.|Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision ACCO will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment. Notice To Outside Recruiters Hiring managers are not authorized to review or accept recruiting agreements from any outside recruiting agencies. Outside recruiting agencies should not submit unsolicited resumes without signing the company's recruiting agreement.