Manager, Safety

Liberty Tire Recycling•Midlothian, TX

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

Liberty Tire Recycling is a high-growth company and the premier provider of tire recycling services in North America with operations throughout the United States and Canada. Liberty Tire annually transforms more than 210 million tires into raw materials for smart, sustainable products that improve our environment and people’s lives. The Company is private equity owned, has approximately 60 sites in the US and Canada, and nearly 4,000 employees. With innovative tools, technologies and processes, Liberty Tire is a revolutionary American conservation enterprise – from coast to coast, and from whole tire to end products. The company’s commitment to finding new and better ways to RECLAIM, RECYCLE and REUSE bridges the sustainability goals of scrap tire generators nationwide with those of local scrap rubber consumers. The Safety Manager is a key partner to leadership at the assigned site or sites, responsible for driving injury reduction, improving safety performance, and supporting a safe working environment at the assigned site or sites. This role provides leadership, oversight, and consistency in safety programs through data-driven decision-making, KPI ownership, field visibility, coaching, and practical risk-reduction solutions. The Safety Manager serves as a key safety resource and advisor for the assigned site or sites and helps build safety capability among site leaders, supervisors, and employees by promoting effective practices and strengthening continuity of safety support. Operating leaders retain accountability for safe daily execution. The Safety Manager provides technical guidance, coaching, verification, and escalation support.

Requirements

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret safety data and convert findings into action.
Demonstrated experience developing and implementing safety or ergonomics improvements in industrial, production, or logistics environments, including support across assigned sites when needed.
Strong working knowledge of OSHA regulations and compliance requirements.
Experience managing safety performance through KPIs, audits, observations, corrective actions, and operating reviews.
Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with operations leadership, frontline leaders, and hourly employees.
Strong interpersonal, training, presentation, and written communication skills.
Highly organized, detail-oriented, field-oriented, and results-driven.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced industrial environment and travel regularly among the assigned site or sites.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting industrial, production, or logistics sites strongly preferred.
Proven record of reducing workplace injuries and improving safety systems in hourly labor, industrial, production, transportation, or heavy-logistics environments.
Professional certification such as CSP, ASP, or CPE strongly preferred, or demonstrated progress toward a relevant certification.
Working knowledge of production operations, ergonomics, equipment safety, preventative maintenance interfaces, and safe standard work strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and support site injury-reduction strategies in partnership with operating leadership, with a primary focus on the safety of the hourly workforce.
Establish, monitor, and improve leading and lagging safety indicators, including TRIR, DART, ergonomic risk, and near-miss reporting.
Analyze safety, injury, audit, and observation data to identify trends, prioritize risk, and translate findings into practical operating actions.
Lead high-quality root-cause analysis for incidents and near misses; assign or confirm action ownership, verify sustainable corrective actions, and share lessons across the assigned site or sites.
Ensure assigned incident records, internal notifications, investigation documentation, and required regulatory information are accurate, timely, and complete; coordinate with appropriate company resources when escalation is required.
Conduct routine and formal safety audits and field observations to verify adherence to OSHA requirements and company standards.
Assess repetitive motion, lifting, material-handling, equipment, and work-area risks; recommend practical controls, tooling, process changes, workstation improvements, and targeted investments.
Partner with General Managers, site leaders, supervisors, and employees to embed safe work methods, control points, ergonomics, and risk reduction into daily operating plans and standard work.
Deliver targeted safety and ergonomics training to hourly employees, supervisors, managers, and site leadership teams.
Coach leaders and employees to recognize hazards, intervene effectively, reinforce standard work, and take ownership of safety performance.
Participate in operating reviews for the assigned site or sites, presenting concise safety insights, unresolved risks, corrective-action status, and recommended priorities.
Promote consistent application of effective safety practices, metrics, training, and corrective actions across the assigned site or sites while supporting site-specific risk controls.
Exercise stop-work authority when an imminent danger, serious uncontrolled exposure, or material violation of a safety requirement is identified; escalate promptly and verify effective controls before work resumes, consistent with company policy.
Own the operating discipline and reporting quality behind assigned safety measures, including timely incident investigation, audit and observation completion, corrective-action closure, effectiveness verification, training and qualification completion, repeat-finding reduction, and high-risk exposure reduction.
Translate annual and quarterly safety targets into site action plans, review progress through established operating cadences, identify performance gaps, and require documented recovery actions with clear owners and due dates.
Build safety capability among site leaders, supervisors, and employees through field coaching, cross-training, collaborative problem solving, documented development actions, and knowledge transfer.
Strengthen continuity of safety support by maintaining repeatable tools and standards and cross-training site leaders and frontline supervisors to support effective safety coverage.
Champion continuous improvement that strengthens safety outcomes while supporting quality, reliability, service, and productivity.
Serve as the safety subject-matter resource for the assigned site or sites for high-risk production activities, including machine safeguarding, hazardous-energy control, material handling, ergonomics, conveyors, shredders, grinders, and other processing equipment.
Partner with production leadership to integrate safety requirements into production schedules, labor plans, equipment assignments, tooling, material flow, startup and shutdown activities, and standard work.
Lead or support task-based and process risk assessments for new or modified equipment, tooling, layouts, materials, and work methods; confirm that required controls are implemented before routine operation.
Evaluate production tasks for ergonomic, machine, struck-by, caught-in or between, material-handling, housekeeping, and workflow risk; recommend engineering controls as the preferred solution when practical and verify control effectiveness.
Support effective machine guarding and lockout/tagout programs by assessing field execution, identifying gaps, and partnering with operations and maintenance leaders on sustainable corrective actions.
Work with production and maintenance leaders to reduce risk during equipment breakdowns, troubleshooting, preventative maintenance, contractor work, outages, and changes to processes or tooling.
Use observations, incident data, audit findings, downtime information, and operating trends to identify production conditions that create risk, prioritize improvements, and verify that changes are sustained.
Coach production managers, supervisors, maintenance leaders, operators, and laborers on hazard recognition, safe equipment interaction, qualification expectations, and frontline accountability.
Develop expertise in production safety and share practical knowledge through field coaching, cross-training, documented standards, lessons learned, and repeatable risk-control practices.