US LBM Market Safety Manager

About the Company

US LBM is one of the leading and fastest-growing distributors of specialty building materials in the United States, with a team of over 13,000 employees located throughout the country. Since our founding in 2009, we have acquired over 100 companies and expanded to more than 450 locations serving 37 states. US LBM promotes a unique culture that focuses on the value of its customers and associates, with a strong emphasis on developing people and fostering empowerment.

About the Role

The US LBM Market Safety Manager's primary objective is to protect and enhance the safety of our associates within the market through prevention, fostering a culture of caring where safety, health, and environment are ingrained as core values. This role works closely with market operational leadership and onsite Divisional Safety leads to ensure compliance across all safety, health, and environmental aspects of the market. The position sets local safety strategies in alignment with corporate policy and manages a team to implement safety initiatives, reducing the frequency and severity of incidents. This is a remote position supporting divisions across Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada. The preferred candidate will reside in Arizona or Nevada to best support the assigned territory and travel requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the divisional/location safety leaders within the market.
• Ensure the rollout and completion of safety training for employees on policies, regulations, and procedures.
• Advise the company’s operations team on safety issues and compliance.
• Analyze incident reports, metrics, and injury case studies to institute changes that lead to a safer environment.
• Perform and manage market safety audit and observation programs and develop corrective actions with local leadership.
• Review injury/incidents with location leaders to identify trends and mitigate future occurrences.
• Develop and communicate safety goals and performance results to market operational leadership and local management.
• Lead location leadership through OSHA engagements and ensure responses/corrective actions are executed within provided timelines.
• Provide in-person accident investigations for all lost-time events and ensure all incidents and near misses are appropriately investigated to meet or exceed industry average DART scores.
• Execute proactive injury reduction initiatives leveraging third-party resources.
• Monitor and track location safety committee progress and goals to ensure they are aligned and impactful.
• Manage and distribute market location 300 Logs.
• Work closely with Risk Management in the investigation of incidents.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.
• Adhere to the Company’s commitment to workplace safety.
• Participate in and complete assigned trainings.

Requirements

• 3+ years in a management position responsible for leading others.
• 3+ years of experience in a safety, environmental, or health role with progressive responsibility.
• Prior experience applying environmental, health, and/or safety in the building materials industry (a plus).
• Prior OSHA Compliance experience required.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong working knowledge of ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and LEAN concepts.
• Knowledge of OSHA, EPA, and DOT regulations.
• Capable of working in a fast-paced environment with minimal direct supervision; strong leadership, interpersonal, and self-initiative skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive sustainable organizational change.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional teams capable of delivering desired results.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and influence across a diverse range of people, from corporate/division leadership to frontline associates.
• Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically and quickly transition between the two.
• Good technical understanding of Safety, Health, and Environmental issues and their relationship to production/engineering and job functions as it relates to building prevention.
• Strong verbal/written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Detailed and results-oriented.
• Ability to communicate complex regulatory and technical issues in lay terms.
• Ability to achieve results through dotted-line reporting situations.
• Must be able to wear all appropriate personal protective equipment including hard hat, vests, gloves, footwear, and infrequent use of masks.

Qualifications

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or professional certifications in Safety, Health, and Environmental-related fields (e.g., CIH, NEBOSH, CEM) are considered beneficial.

Schedule

40% travel for operational audits and inspections, and for company functions as needed.