Safety Services Director

Baton Rouge, LA:
Flexicrew Technical Services (FTS) is seeking a Director of Safety Services to lead, operate, and grow a Safety Services Division serving industrial clients throughout the Gulf Coast. This is a business-unit leadership role requiring both strong commercial acumen and deep industrial safety expertise. The Director will own the division’s revenue, profitability, clients, people, workload, and growth while remaining technically capable, client-facing, and billable.

The ideal candidate has experience leading or materially contributing to the operation of a safety consulting, professional services, contract safety, or similar client-facing business.

• Lead the overall performance, profitability, and strategic growth of the Safety Services Division.
• Own P&L performance, revenue growth, gross margin, annual budgets, financial forecasting, and project profitability.
• Develop and execute strategies to achieve revenue retention, backlog, pipeline, gross profit, and sustained profitability objectives.
• Manage staffing levels, workload planning, billable utilization, resource allocation, and capacity forecasting.
• Develop pricing, estimates, scopes of work, proposals, and resource plans for client engagements.
• Build and maintain a strong sales pipeline while identifying opportunities for new business, client retention, and account expansion.
• Develop trusted client relationships and serve as a senior technical and commercial resource throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Remain actively client-facing and billable, particularly while developing additional professionals capable of assuming greater delivery responsibility.
• Conduct industrial safety audits, assessments, Job Hazard Analyses, and high-risk work evaluations.
• Develop, customize, and improve client safety programs, policies, procedures, and management systems.
• Develop and deliver safety training for industrial clients and their employees.
• Provide technical expertise related to lockout/tagout, electrical safety, confined space, hot work, life-safety programs, and other high-hazard industrial activities.
• Prepare technical reports, findings, recommendations, and corrective action strategies for clients.
• Provide turnaround, contract safety, and other project-based safety support as required.
• Evaluate client needs and independently develop the appropriate technical scope, pricing, staffing requirements, and execution strategy.
• Monitor project performance to ensure engagements meet quality, profitability, schedule, and client satisfaction expectations.
• Recruit, lead, mentor, and develop safety professionals while building technical and leadership capabilities throughout the team.
• Establish scalable processes, systems, standards, and operating practices that support continued division growth.
• Develop a high-performing team capable of delivering client services effectively without relying on a single individual for day-to-day execution.
• Maintain knowledge of applicable OSHA regulations, industry standards, occupational safety management systems, and industrial safety best practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, or a related field preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive industrial safety experience; candidates with approximately 10-25 years of relevant experience are strongly encouraged.
• Significant leadership experience within industrial safety, consulting, professional services, contract safety, or a comparable client-facing service environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning or materially managing a P&L, business unit, practice, region, service line, or comparable operation.
• Proven ability to manage revenue, profitability, budgets, forecasts, backlog, pipeline,…