Manager, Safety

Liberty Tire Recycling•Midlothian, TX

20d

About The Position

Liberty Tire Recycling is seeking a hands-on Safety Manager to partner with leadership at an assigned site to reduce injuries, strengthen compliance, and improve safety performance. The role combines field presence, data-driven decision-making, coaching, training, incident prevention, and practical risk reduction. The Safety Manager serves as the site’s safety advisor and develops subject-matter expertise in an assigned specialty, while operating leaders retain accountability for safe daily execution. The role focuses on site injury-reduction strategies, tracking and improving safety indicators, analyzing safety and operational data, investigating incidents, maintaining required records, and verifying compliance with OSHA requirements, company standards, and site-specific controls. The Safety Manager assesses workplace and equipment risks, recommends controls, partners with site functions to integrate safe methods into daily operations, delivers training, and reports performance and unresolved risks through operating reviews. The position includes stop-work authority when imminent danger, serious uncontrolled exposure, or a material safety violation exists. The assigned specialty is transportation safety, including DOT and FMCSA compliance, driver risk, fleet readiness, and mobile-equipment hazards. Responsibilities include partnering with transportation leadership, conducting ride-alongs and field reviews, investigating vehicle and mobile-equipment incidents, addressing fleet and maintenance risks, and developing practical standards and training for industrial trucks, loaders, yard equipment, and traffic management. The role also supports safety capability and continuous improvement at the site and may provide specialized guidance to other sites or Safety Managers.

Requirements

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret safety data and convert findings into action.
Strong working knowledge of OSHA requirements and practical safety management in industrial, production, transportation, logistics, or recycling environments.
Experience managing safety performance through KPIs, audits, observations, investigations, corrective actions, training, and operating reviews.
Ability to influence and collaborate with site leadership, frontline leaders, hourly employees, maintenance, transportation, and contractors.
Strong interpersonal, coaching, training, presentation, and written communication skills.
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and field-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced industrial environment.
At least five years of progressively responsible safety experience in industrial, manufacturing, recycling, transportation, logistics, or similar heavy operations preferred.
Proven experience reducing workplace injuries and improving safety systems in environments with an hourly workforce.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health and safety, engineering, operations, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
Professional certification such as CSP, ASP, OHST, CHST, or progress toward a relevant credential strongly preferred.
Additional experience with DOT and FMCSA requirements, commercial motor vehicle operations, driver qualification, fleet safety, powered industrial trucks, or heavy mobile equipment strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead site injury-reduction strategies with operating leadership, focusing primarily on hourly employees.
Establish, monitor, and improve leading and lagging safety indicators, including TRIR, DART, near misses, audits, observations, training completion, and corrective-action closure.
Analyze incident, audit, observation, ergonomic, and operating data to identify trends, prioritize risk, and develop practical actions.
Lead incident and near-miss investigations, identify root causes and action ownership, and verify that corrective actions are sustainable and effective.
Maintain timely and accurate incident records, internal notifications, investigation documentation, and required regulatory information; escalate significant issues as appropriate.
Conduct routine audits and field observations to verify compliance with OSHA requirements, company standards, and site-specific controls.
Assess equipment, material-handling, ergonomic, task, and work-area risks and recommend engineering, administrative, and work-practice controls.
Partner with site leaders, supervisors, maintenance, transportation, and employees to integrate safe work methods and risk controls into daily plans and standard work.
Deliver targeted safety training and coach leaders and employees on hazard recognition, intervention, qualification expectations, and accountability.
Report safety performance, unresolved risks, corrective-action status, and recommended priorities through established operating reviews.
Exercise stop-work authority when imminent danger, serious uncontrolled exposure, or a material safety violation exists, and verify effective controls before work resumes.
Build site safety capability through field support, cross-training, repeatable tools, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.
Serve as the site subject-matter expert for transportation safety, DOT and FMCSA compliance, driver risk, fleet readiness, and mobile-equipment hazards.
Partner with transportation leadership on route planning, driver scheduling, loading, unloading, customer-site work, driver qualification, and safe fleet deployment.
Conduct ride-alongs, route reviews, vehicle and mobile-equipment observations, and field coaching for CDL and non-CDL drivers, dispatchers, operators, and supervisors.
Analyze vehicle, backing, pedestrian, route, loading, and mobile-equipment incidents; lead corrective actions and share practical lessons learned.
Work with transportation and maintenance leaders to address vehicle defects, preventive maintenance, inspections, safe return to service, and equipment-control risks.
Develop and maintain practical standards and training for powered industrial trucks, loaders, yard equipment, traffic management, and driver-pedestrian interaction.
Develop and maintain expertise in the assigned specialty, provide practical guidance, share effective practices, and support other sites or Safety Managers when specialized expertise is needed.