Safety Supervisor

Safety Supervisor – Job Description

Position: Safety Supervisor Employment Status: Full-Time , Salaried Exempt
Primary Territory: NH, MA, ME, RI & CT

The Safety Supervisor is responsible for supporting, evaluating, and continuously improving the safety culture of Optiline Enterprises. This position serves as a safety leader, coach, educator, and resource for field employees, foremen, supervisors, project managers, and company leadership. The Safety Supervisor will maintain a regular presence in the field, conduct safety observations and audits, provide employee training and coaching, manage training through the company's Learning Management System (LMS), participate in project planning and customer meetings, and work collaboratively with operations to identify and correct potential safety concerns.

The goal of the position is not simply to identify violations, but to develop employees, improve behaviors, prevent incidents, strengthen accountability, and build a culture in which everyone takes ownership of safety.

• Conduct new-hire safety orientations and ongoing employee safety training.
• Conduct refresher and remedial training when employees require additional coaching or retraining.
• Manage and utilize the company's Learning Management System (LMS) to assign, document, monitor, and maintain employee training records.
• Monitor training completion and identify expired or upcoming employee qualifications and certifications.
• Identify training gaps based on field observations, employee performance, incidents, near misses, audit results, and operational needs.
• Assist supervisors and managers in developing employees' understanding of safe work practices and company expectations.
• Develop and update safety presentations, toolbox talks, training materials, and other safety-related educational resources.

• Maintain a consistent safety presence at Optiline Enterprises jobsites throughout the assigned territory.
• Conduct regular safety walks, inspections, and field observations.
• Observe employees performing work and provide immediate coaching when appropriate.
• Recognize and reinforce employees demonstrating positive safety behaviors.
• Identify unsafe conditions, behaviors, or work practices and work collaboratively with employees and supervisors to correct them.
• Verify employees are properly utilizing required PPE, tools, equipment, procedures, and safety controls.
• Document significant observations and corrective actions.
• Follow up on identified concerns to verify that corrective actions have been completed.

• Provide professional safety coaching to employees, foremen, supervisors, project managers, and management.
• Counsel employees regarding unsafe behaviors, repeated safety concerns, or failure to follow established safety procedures.
• Work with operations leadership regarding corrective actions and employee retraining when appropriate.
• Help employees understand both what safety requirements apply and why those requirements are important.
• Encourage employees to communicate hazards, unsafe conditions, near misses, and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain a professional, respectful, fair, and solutions-oriented approach when addressing safety concerns.

• Evaluate and audit Optiline Enterprises' overall safety culture.
• Conduct formal and informal safety audits of jobsites, facilities, work practices, documentation, vehicles, and equipment as appropriate.
• Identify recurring trends, behaviors, training deficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop recommendations for improving safety performance and employee engagement.
• Track corrective actions and verify completion.
• Provide company leadership with meaningful feedback regarding safety performance, trends, and emerging concerns.

• Attend customer premobilization meetings as required.
• Represent Optiline Enterprises regarding project safety expectations, employee qualifications, training requirements, and safety procedures.
• Review customer-specific safety requirements before employees mobilize to a project.
• Attend internal Optiline Enterprises project handoff and kickoff meetings.
• Review project scope, anticipated hazards, staffing, customer expectations, employee qualifications, training requirements, and project-specific safety concerns.
• Work with project and operations teams to identify hazards and establish appropriate safety controls before work begins.
• Help communicate project-specific safety expectations to field employees and supervisors.

• Participate in investigations of workplace incidents, injuries, property damage, vehicle incidents, and near misses.
• Assist in identifying root causes and contributing factors.
• Work with leadership to develop appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Track corrective actions through completion.
• Assist in communicating lessons learned…