Senior Safety Manager - Mission Critical

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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.

This role serves as a strategic safety partner to operational teams, project leadership, clients, trade partners, and safety professionals, fostering a proactive safety culture focused on incident prevention, hazard recognition, planning, accountability, and continuous improvement. The Senior Safety Manager plays a critical role in supporting Veit's growth in the mission critical market by ensuring world-class safety performance while reinforcing Veit's commitment that every employee returns home safely every day.

This position requires extensive travel and field presence, with approximately 90-100% travel supporting projects across multiple states.

• 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…