Regional Safety Manager

Regional Safety Manager

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) is the largest privately held provider of facility services in North America, servicing over 2 billion square feet of space daily. We help industry leaders across a wide range of key verticals—including retail, industrial and logistics, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and more—maintain clean, efficient and welcoming spaces that support their operations. As we continue to grow, we're looking for team members who are dedicated, reliable, and ready to contribute to a culture built on respect, opportunity, and pride in service.

This role is 100% remote.

Position Summary:

The Regional Safety Manager is responsible for ensuring regional compliance with OSHA regulations, as well as all applicable federal, state, and local safety requirements. This role develops, implements, and maintains workplace safety policies and programs to promote a safe and compliant working environment.

This individual will assess risk, identify opportunities to improve safety performance, and lead initiatives to reduce hazards across operations. The role also oversees the accurate documentation and reporting of safety metrics, records, and compliance logs in alignment with company standards, client requirements, and regulatory agencies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conducts safety meetings, audits, and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluates performance, identifies corrective action, and implements follow up assessments
• Plans, implements and conducts preventative care, safety, and compliance training programs
• Maintains comprehensive environmental safety & health programs as required by state laws and applicable by site and business unit
• Provides operations team with guidance on health and safety processes ensuring adherence to industry, local state, and federal guidelines and regulations
• Complies with customer expectations and SLAs
• Collaborates with site level management to develop an Emergency Action Plan
• Coordinates investigations and Root Cause Analysis for Near Miss and accident events
• Tracks safety inspection activities, reports, and correspondence
• Collaborates with other departments to create and approve manuals, internal policies and procedures in accordance with contract documents, good engineering practices, customer expectations, and federal, state, and local regulations.
• Ensures that all work is performed in accordance with approved manuals, internal policies and procedures, contract documents, good engineering practices and customer expectations
• Coordinates and monitors customer safety escalations and service request involving safety protocols
• Participates in team meetings and provides regular on-site project presence
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining Risk Assessment Plans, conducting risk assessments, administering monthly random safety questionnaires and unplanned safety observations
• Maintains Vendor Supplier Portals as it relates to Health and Safety information for region

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

As requested by management.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

Knowledge:

• Safety regulations and standards
• Hazard recognition
• Project management
• Process improvement tools
• Project controls
• Administrative policies and procedures

Skills:

• Risk assessment
• Injury management
• Management of health and safety programs
• Written and oral communication
• Management of difficult conversations with high impact customers
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Experienced in fast paced environments
• Relationship building
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, organize and manage time

Competencies:

• Business acumen
• Leadership
• Conflict management
• Team management
• Problem solving
• Critical thinking

Educational Qualifications/Job Experience Requirements:

Experience:

• 5+ years of progressive Health and Safety Management experience preferred
• Employee Health and Safety (EHS)
• Supply Chain industry experience required
• Amazon experience preferred
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
• In health care settings, required to maintain up-to-date immunizations and annual flu shots

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or equivalent. Or an equivalent combination of degree and experience
• Certifications in Employee Health and Safety (EHS)

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements:

Schedule:

• Regular M-F work week; extensive travel and safety escalation support on weekends/holiday may be required.

Physical requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Environment:

• Remote position with some Site visit requirements.
• The site environment may have major hazards.
• In healthcare facilities, may be exposed to medical waste and bloodborne pathogens
• May include varying temperatures and hazardous machinery operations.
• Noise level can be excessive.
• Wear PPE as required including but not limited to - hard hat, protective boots, vests, hearing protection, gloves, jackets, eye and face protection.

Travel: Up to 50%