Safety Director

Safety Director

The Safety Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the company's safety and risk management programs across both prefabrication operations and field installation crews. This role leads the organization in creating a best-in-class safety culture focused on proactiveness, and accountability embedded directly into production. This role minimizes risk exposure and reduces incident rates and EMR through effective incident prevention, training, enforcement, and claims management practices ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policy.

The Safety Director operates at both a strategic and operational level, partnering with executive leadership, field & prefab facility operations, and project teams to embed safety into all aspects of work execution.

Essential (Core Competencies) Duties

Promote a Safety Culture: Champion a "think safe- work safe" culture across all levels of the organization and collaborate with management and employees to motivate and ensure engagement and accountability in safety initiatives.

Establish and communicate a clear company-wide safety vision, strategy, and expectations aligned with "best-in-class" performance.

Drive a behavior-based safety culture that emphasizes safe production is the expectation- not a tradeoff. Employees at all levels are:

• Expected to identify hazards
• Empowered to initiate improvements or stop work
• Held accountable for unsafe behaviors
• Lead initiatives that reinforce daily safety ownership at the crew or jig level.

Partner with operations leadership to ensure safety is integrated into planning, scheduling, and production expectations (not treated as a parallel function).

Drive consistency across multiple crews, foremen, and jobsites simultaneously, often under varying GC-controlled environments.

Align internal culture with external site rules (GCs/owners) while maintaining company standards.

Ensure immediate correction of unsafe behaviors, unsafe conditions, non-compliance with company or GC standards.

Create a structured system for progressive discipline and corrective action tracking.

Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Conduct regular site and prefab facility inspections, audits, and job hazard analyses (JHAs) to proactively identify potential hazards and implement corrective measures to eliminate or minimize risks

Training and Education: Oversee the development of safety training programs for employees, managers, and subcontractors on safe work practices, hazard recognition, emergency response, and proper handling of materials or equipment. Develop front line supervisors' safety leadership so that safety is owned at the crew level, not just by the safety staff.

Claims Management & Risk Control:

Actively manage WC,GL, Auto claims across insurance carriers, third party administrators, legal, and internal HR/Operations.

Implement best practices in reducing claim severity and return to work programs.

Identify root causes to feed changes back to training & enforcement.

Policy and Program Development: Create, implement, and update comprehensive health and safety policies, procedures, and manuals in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Data Analysis and Metrics: Oversee tracking, analysis, and reporting on safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), trends, and incident rates to leadership to drive continuous improvement

Oversee Safety Manager's development of project and task specific safety programs such as JSA's.

Attend Safety Manager led Safety Committee meetings to receive feedback and drive safety initiatives.

Oversee Safety Manager pre-planning jobsite meetings. Attend or conduct meetings when required.

Ensure that all employees achieve the proper training requirements as per the OSHA and company standards. If necessary, facilitate training for site personnel for compliance.

Stop at once any violation or unsafe practice.

Oversee Safety Manager led investigation of incidents, root cause analysis, reporting, trend development, and corrective actions.

Annually Review and update the company Health and Safety Program to ensure compliance with Local, State, and Federal Regulations and Requirements.

Other

Other duties and projects as assigned.

Required to adhere to all Klover policies and procedures.

Supervisory/ Management Requirements:

Oversee safety manager

Oversee admin services staff with partial safety admin responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Education and Experience

Associates or bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Health, Industrial Engineering, or related fields.

OSHA 30 Construction Industry and/or General Industry Certification

CSP, CSD, OSHA 500, CHST (preferred)

7-10 years' experience in a safety leadership role proven to establish and improve safety culture.

Proficiency in MS Office 365

Prior experience in conducting safety training both on-site and in a classroom setting

Prior experience in a field construction role preferred.

Preferred Experience and Certifications

Knowledge in advanced manufacturing technology and welding.

Previous work in an industrial construction environment.

Key Competencies

Strong ability to drive behavior change across field and prefab facility operations.

Deep understanding of trade contractor operations

Experience with multi-site, crew-based production environments

Expertise in claims management and cost control

Ability to bring structure and consistency across decentralized operations teams

Balance of enforcement + coaching + operational alignment

The ability to improve the immediate performance of others, facilitate their skill development and give feedback in a manner that facilitates confidence and maintains self-esteem.

The need to be self-motivated to grow personally and professionally through on-going education as a result of the rate of change in the position.

The ability to sense the feelings, needs, perspectives and concerns of another party (employees & customers) and thereby build a relationship.

The ability to build a relationship with another person or group through effective communication skills (listening, speaking & behaving).

The ability to evaluate, select and act on various methods and strategies for solving problems and meeting objectives before being asked or required to do so.

The ability to communicate to a group or individual for purposes of educating and/or influencing a decision.

The ability to convince others to accept a position, proposal, plan of action, etc.

The ability to develop and use effective strategies, change management and interpersonal skills to influence others toward the accomplishment of identified objectives.

The ability to Identify or participate in identifying changes & new approaches to items such as procedures, methods, models, products, services, theories, concepts, technologies, etc. that benefit employees, customers and/or the organization.

Physical Requirements Continued

Due to the physical nature of the position, employee must have full dexterity of their hands and arms.

Employee must be able to see objects close and far away

At times, multiple sounds can be heard as employee is working on job, employee must have the ability to focus on the sound in particular that is associated with the task they are completing. Employees with any sort of hearing impairment would not be considered fit for duty to perform this position.

Due to the safety sensitive nature of the position, at all times, employee must be fit for duty and not report to work under the influence of a mind altering or performance altering substance. At no time, should employee be found to be possessing or using a mind or performance altering substance while performing any Company task.

Company Standards

The employee will represent the Company in a positive, professional manner with fellow employees and within the communities served.

The employee will encourage and maintain teamwork throughout the company and will communicate all pertinent information in a timely and effective manner.

The employee will endeavor to maintain our integrity by embracing high ethical standards and adhering to company policies.

Consistently demonstrates Company's Guiding Values of Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Integrity, Teamwork, and Community.

Acknowledgement

Position duties and expectations change over time. This job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive, exclusive or exhaustive list of the job functions that an employee in this position may be asked to perform from time to time. The employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the Company. If there is ever a time that you are unsure what is expected of you, you are expected to meet with your manager and ask questions. If you are unsure how to perform a certain