Safety Programs & Systems Manager

SUMMARY
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The Safety Programs & Systems Manager is a corporate leadership role responsible for developing, governing, and continuously improving Baker Electric’s enterprise safety programs, management systems, technology, and assurance practices. The role partners across corporate and operational teams to establish consistent, scalable, and effective safety processes that support Baker’s electrical construction operations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with the Vice President - Safety and Safety leadership to translate enterprise safety strategy into prioritized programs, initiatives, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the development, review, standardization, and continuous improvement of corporate safety programs, policies, procedures, standards, forms, and supporting tools.
• Assess current-state safety processes and identify opportunities to simplify workflows, eliminate duplication, improve consistency, strengthen controls, and increase field adoption.
• Lead cross-functional safety improvement initiatives from concept through implementation, including scope, stakeholder alignment, change management, milestones, performance measures, and sustainment.
• Establish program governance, review cycles, version control, ownership, and change-management processes to keep safety programs current, effective, and aligned with regulatory and operational requirements.
• Monitor emerging safety practices, technology, regulatory developments, and industry trends and recommend strategic improvements appropriate for Baker’s operations.

• Serve as business owner and primary Safety administrator for the company’s safety management platform and related digital safety tools.
• Partner with Information Technology and business stakeholders on integrations between safety systems and enterprise platforms such as HRIS, project management, learning management, analytics, and other operational systems.
• Translate business and field requirements into scalable digital workflows for incidents, inspections, observations, corrective actions, audits, training records, equipment or asset inspections, and other safety processes.
• Lead implementation and optimization efforts for new safety technology, including requirements gathering, vendor coordination, testing, deployment, training, adoption, and post-implementation evaluation.
• Manage relationships with safety technology vendors and evaluate platform performance, roadmap, service levels, user experience, and opportunities to improve return on investment.

• Develop and maintain a risk-based safety assurance framework to evaluate implementation and effectiveness of corporate safety programs, critical controls, and management-system requirements.
• Design and coordinate program audits, management-system assessments, compliance reviews, and targeted assurance activities in partnership with field and corporate Safety leadership.
• Evaluate whether corrective actions address underlying causes and establish processes to verify timely closure and sustained effectiveness.
• Use assurance results as an input to program updates, training priorities, system enhancements, and annual safety strategy.

• Establish data standards and governance practices that improve the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and usability of safety information.
• Develop and maintain leading and lagging indicators, scorecards, dashboards, and performance measures that provide actionable visibility to Safety, Operations, and executive leadership.
• Partners with analytics and technology teams to enable reliable reporting through…