Director of Safety & Health

Safety Leadership & Strategy

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve the company's overall safety and health program.
• Establish company-wide safety standards, expectations, policies, and procedures.
• Partner with executive and operational leadership to integrate safety into project planning and execution.
• Provide safety leadership and guidance to project managers, superintendents, foremen, and field teams.
• Establish measurable safety goals and track performance across projects and business units.
• Build accountability for safety performance at every level of the organization.
• Promote a proactive safety culture focused on prevention, employee engagement, and continuous improvement.

• Provide safety oversight across active construction projects and company facilities.
• Conduct regular jobsite visits, audits, inspections, and safety observations.
• Evaluate project-specific hazards and ensure appropriate controls are established before work begins.
• Partner with field leadership on job hazard analyses, pre-task planning, site-specific safety plans, and corrective actions.
• Ensure subcontractors and employees comply with company, client, and project safety requirements.
• Support safety planning for high-risk construction activities.
• Identify trends and recurring hazards and work with operations to eliminate or reduce exposure.

• Ensure compliance with OSHA and applicable federal, state, local, client, and company safety requirements.
• Maintain required safety programs, documentation, recordkeeping, and regulatory reporting.
• Monitor regulatory developments and update company practices as requirements change.
• Maintain OSHA logs and other required safety records.
• Coordinate regulatory inspections and responses as necessary.
• Partner with leadership, HR, insurance, risk management, and legal resources on significant safety matters.

• Lead or oversee investigations involving injuries, near misses, property damage, and other safety incidents.
• Ensure investigations identify root causes rather than simply documenting the event.
• Develop and track corrective and preventive actions through completion.
• Analyze incident trends, leading indicators, and safety data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Communicate significant safety risks and incidents to executive leadership promptly.
• Support return-to-work and workers' compensation processes in coordination with HR and applicable partners.

• Develop and maintain safety training programs for employees and field leadership.
• Ensure employees receive required OSHA, company, client, and task-specific safety training.
• Support new-hire safety orientation and project-specific onboarding.
• Coach superintendents, foremen, project managers, and other leaders on their responsibilities for safety performance.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen field leadership's ability to recognize hazards and intervene before incidents occur.

• Establish meaningful leading and lagging safety indicators.
• Monitor incident rates, observations, inspections, corrective actions, training completion, and other safety metrics.
• Provide leadership with clear reporting on safety performance, emerging risks, and improvement priorities.
• Maintain safety management systems, documentation, and records.
• Evaluate technology and process improvements that strengthen safety performance and field visibility.
• Support prequalification, client reporting, insurance requirements, and safety-related business-development needs.

• 10+ years of progressive construction safety experience, including leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading safety programs across active commercial, industrial, mechanical, electrical, or other complex construction environments.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA construction standards and industry safety practices.
• Experience conducting jobsite inspections, audits, incident investigations, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience developing and implementing company-wide safety programs, policies, and training.
• Proven ability to work effectively with executives, project management, superintendents, foremen, and craft professionals.
• Strong understanding of construction means and methods and the hazards associated with field operations.
• Ability to analyze safety data and translate findings into practical corrective actions.
• Strong communication, leadership, organizational, and…