Senior Safety Manager - Mission Critical

About the role

The Senior Safety Manager, Mission Critical, is a senior safety leader responsible for driving safety excellence across Veit's Mission Critical construction projects. This role provides direct leadership, consultation, and oversight for large-scale, high-profile data center and mission critical projects, ensuring alignment with Veit safety standards, client expectations, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the safety leader supporting Veit's mission critical and data center construction operations nationwide.
• Establish strong partnerships with project executives, project managers, superintendents, clients, and trade partners to achieve world-class safety performance.
• Champion a zero-incident culture through visible leadership, coaching, engagement, and accountability at all levels.
• Provide consistent safety leadership throughout all phases of project planning, mobilization, execution, commissioning, and closeout.
• Ensure safety remains integrated into production planning, operational decision-making, and daily field activities.
• Provide direct oversight of safety performance across multiple mission critical projects simultaneously.
• Conduct comprehensive site audits, inspections, observations, and field assessments to proactively identify and mitigate risk.
• Lead project risk reviews and participate in pre-task planning, Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), Activity Hazard Analysis (AHA), and critical lift reviews.
• Verify implementation and effectiveness of site-specific safety plans, permits, and client-required safety programs.
• Support project teams in identifying emerging risks associated with accelerated schedules, complex logistics, energized systems, confined spaces, crane operations, excavation activities, and high-risk construction work.
• Ensure corrective actions are developed, communicated, and effectively implemented.
• Build trusted relationships with mission critical clients, owners, construction managers, and trade partners.
• Represent Veit during client audits, leadership meetings, safety stand-downs, and executive safety reviews.
• Collaborate with clients to ensure compliance with project-specific safety requirements and contractual obligations.
• Support project pursuits and preconstruction efforts by providing safety expertise and demonstrating Veit's safety capabilities.
• Serve as a safety ambassador, reinforcing Veit's reputation for industry-leading safety performance and operational excellence.
• Lead investigations of incidents, near misses, property damage events, and high-potential exposures.
• Facilitate root cause analysis and development of sustainable corrective actions.
• Track, analyze, and communicate safety performance metrics, trends, and leading indicators.
• Utilize data, field observations, and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across mission critical and broader company operations.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, federal, state, local, and client-specific safety requirements.
• Support development, implementation, and continuous improvement of company safety policies, programs, and procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of regulatory changes, industry trends, and emerging best practices.
• Partner with operational leaders to ensure consistent application of Veit safety standards across all project locations.
• Coordinate regulatory inspections and serve as a key point of contact for safety-related agency interactions when required.
• Mentor and develop site safety specialists, safety consultants, project leaders, and field personnel.
• Provide coaching and leadership to project teams regarding hazard recognition, risk mitigation, and safety leadership practices.
• Develop and deliver safety training.
• Support workforce development efforts focused on improving safety competency, engagement, and accountability.
• Reinforce a culture where frontline employees actively participate in identifying hazards and improving safety performance.
• Provide leadership and direction to assigned safety personnel supporting mission critical operations.
• Build strong working relationships across Operations, Fleet, Workforce Development, Human Resources, and Operational Excellence teams.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and employee engagement.
• Influence stakeholders without direct authority to achieve safety objectives and operational alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Construction Management, Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 10+ years of progressive construction safety experience with at least 5 years supporting large-scale mission critical, data center, industrial, or complex construction projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading safety programs across multiple states and job locations.
• Extensive knowledge of OSHA regulations, ANSI standards, and construction safety best practices.
• Proven ability to influence project teams and operational leaders while driving a strong safety culture.
• Experience conducting incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action management.
• Strong understanding of high-risk construction operations including excavation, crane operations, critical lifts, confined space entry, energized work, heavy equipment operations, and utility construction.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with experience leveraging safety data and performance metrics.
• Ability to excel in fast-paced, high-growth project environments with demanding client expectations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
• Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST)
• Occupational Health and Safety Technologist (OHST)
• OSHA 500 Certification
• First Aid/CPR/AED Instructor Certification
• Experience supporting hyperscale data center construction projects

Benefits

We offer our full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, disability coverage, retirement plans with matching contributions, and generous paid time off. Additionally, we provide profit sharing, tuition reimbursement, and an employee assistance program.

Who Are We?

Veit is one of the country’s leading specialty contractors, with nearly a century of experience and the best people in the industry. We specialize in foundations, earthwork, utilities, marine services, industrial cleaning, cured-in-place pipelining, and waste disposal. We pride ourselves on our relentless pursuit to push the construction industry forward and deliver for our customers. Our modern fleet of iron, diverse expertise, and unmatched determination allow us to successfully tackle some of the largest and most complex projects across every sector while also living out our values every day. Our company culture is one where everyone pitches in to get the job done, regardless of job title or seniority. We do everything we can to maintain an atmosphere where family comes first. We want every one of our employees to look forward to each day at work and make it home safe and happy at the end of the day.

Our Core Values

• Deliberately Safe
• Build with Intention