Safety Manager

POSITION SUMMARY

Ensure the safety of the production and non-production staff by maintaining and enforcing training, and ensuring company protocol is adhered to. Proactively identify and mitigate high-risk exposures before incidents occur, and keep the organization's safety policies and procedures current, field-tested, and consistently applied. Investigate accidents immediately upon notification. Meet with customers to communicate our safety culture to maximize customer satisfaction and safety.

HIGH PAYOFF ACTIVITES

Investigate Accidents Immediately Upon Notification

• Own the incident investigation process end-to-end, ensuring Workers' Compensation reporting, case management, and documentation are completed accurately and on time by the responsible team members.
• Ensure investigation paperwork is submitted within 24 hours of notification; direct trend and root-cause analysis across recordable incidents and report findings at leadership report-outs.
• Personally lead investigations on serious incidents and near misses; ensure all RCAs are unbiased, timely, and drive corrective action to closure.
• Convert every serious incident and near miss into a policy/procedure review trigger - determine whether the associated SOP, JHA, or MOP failed, was unclear, or was not followed, and issue revisions on a defined turnaround. Maintain a corrective action tracking system with a named owner, due date, and risk ranking for every finding; escalated overdue high-risk corrective actions directly to executive leadership until closed.
• Present investigation findings and trends to executive leadership and translate learnings into updated safety strategy and practices.
• Oversee, in conjunction with support from Human Resources, the light-duty transition process, ensuring a consistent, compliant approach across the organization.

Ensure Field and Office Safety

• Own and maintain the organization's written safety policies, ensuring they stay current with regulatory and operational changes.
• Establish a stop-work authority protocol empowering any employee to halt high-risk or energized work on the spot, with a defined, blame-free process for reporting, resolving, and re-authorizing work.
• Direct safety training programs across the organization, including new hire orientation and annual training, ensuring consistent delivery and compliance.
• Oversee field safety performance through a structured cadence of job site visits and audits (weekly for primary markets, biweekly for Tucson), holding field leadership accountable for findings.
• Ensure Service Department site visits occur on a regular cadence and drive follow-through on identified issues.
• Hold weekly meetings with the Safety Team and VP of Human Resources, setting the agenda and direction to keep Team aligned and outcome-focused.

Develop and Oversee Safety Strategy

• Set safety strategy aligned to company objectives and regulatory requirements; lead the annual safety improvement planning process. Own a formal policy and procedure governance lifecycle: schedule mandatory quarterly/annual reviews of all safety policies, procedures, SOPs, JHAs, and MOPs, plus triggered reviews upon regulatory change, incident findings, new equipment, or new work methods; maintain version control and a documented approval sign-off before release.
• Drive field adoption of every policy change, not just publication - build a rollout plan for each revision that includes communication, targeted training, and tracked field acknowledgment, with adoption verified through subsequent audits.
• Lead an enterprise-wide high-risk activity mitigation strategy: use leading and lagging indicators to identify the organization's top hazard exposures (energized electrical work, falls from height, mobile equipment/struck-by, confined space) and direct a hierarchy-of-controls approach that prioritizes elimination and engineering controls ahead of administrative controls and PPE.
• Own a critical control verification program for the highest-consequence risks - ensure controls such as lockout/tagout, fall-protection anchorage, confined-space atmospheric monitoring, and grounding/bonding are verified through direct field observation, not just paperwork compliance.
• Set standards for high-risk and energized work, ensuring enforcement of NFPA 70E and MOP procedures across the organization; personally review the highest-risk activities.
• Partner with Estimating and Project Management to embed high-risk mitigation planning into the pre-construction and bid phase, so safety requirements, staffing, and cost are built into the plan before mobilization rather than retrofitted in the field.
• Own the organization's safety culture strategy - safety leadership training, engagement campaigns, and recognition programs.
• Act as change-management owner for major safety policy and program rollouts - sequencing communication, training, and accountability so changes stick operationally rather than existing only on paper.
• Serve as the executive level voice for safety: report to ELT and project leadership, participate in strategic planning, and ensure contracts reflect safety compliance requirements.

Fleet Safety

• Develop and maintain safety standards for fleet operations and driving, ensuring alignment with company policy and DOT/regulatory requirements.
• Monitor driver telematics data to identify unsafe driving behaviors and safety trends; direct corrective action and coaching as needed.
• Oversee the safe driver program, ensuring consistent enforcement and accountability across the organization.

Maximize Customer Satisfaction and Safety while ensuring regulatory compliance

• Build and maintain relationships with General Contractors and site Superintendents, positioning the company's safety culture as a differentiator at project start and throughout.
• Own organizational compliance with OSHA, NEC, NFPA, and client-specific safety requirements
• Lead preparation for and represent the organization during external audits and inspections.
• Ensure safety documentation systems (SDS, training records, compliance records) are maintained and audit-ready at all times.

OTHER TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Other duties as assigned
• Special projects as required

REQUIRED SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Safety Leadership – Ability to lead, develop, and hold safety personnel and field leadership accountable for safety performance.
• Construction Safety Knowledge – Strong working knowledge of OSHA construction standards, electrical safety, NFPA 70E, and industry best practices.
• Program Management – Ability to develop, implement, evaluate, and continuously improve company safety programs, policies, and procedures.
• Communication & Influence – Ability to communicate effectively with employees, field leadership, executives, clients, and general contractors.
• Incident & Risk Management – Ability to identify hazards, evaluate risk, investigate incidents, and implement effective corrective actions.
• Strategic Decision-Making – Ability to analyze safety performance, prioritize resources, make sound decisions, and support company-wide operational goals.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• 8-10 years of progressively responsible construction safety experience, including at least 3-5 years in a safety leadership or management capacity. Electrical construction experience strongly preferred. Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Construction Management, or related discipline preferred; an equivalent combination of education, professional certifications, and construction safety experience may substitute. OSHA 500/510 and CHST, ASP, or CSP strongly preferred.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORKING CONDITIONS

• Split between office/desk work and active job sites (not primarily sedentary)
• Frequent walking/standing on uneven, unpaved, or under-construction surfaces
• Regular outdoor exposure to Arizona heat, sun, dust, and wind
• Climbing ladders/stairs, bending, kneeling, accessing elevated or confined areas
• Exposure to noise, dust, moving equipment, and energized electrical work, with required PPE
• Driving between the office and job sites, including Tucson
• Occasional lifting (25-40 lbs.)