Manager, Safety

Liberty Tire Recycling•Midlothian, TX

5d•$0 - $100,000

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 position leads injury-reduction strategies, monitors and improves safety indicators, analyzes operational and safety data, investigates incidents and near misses, maintains accurate records, conducts audits and field observations, assesses risks, and recommends effective controls. It also partners with site leaders and employees to integrate safe work methods into daily operations, delivers targeted training, reports performance and unresolved risks, and exercises stop-work authority when serious hazards exist. The assigned specialty is transportation safety, including DOT and FMCSA compliance, driver risk, fleet readiness, and mobile-equipment hazards. The Manager partners with transportation leadership on routes, scheduling, loading, driver qualification, and fleet deployment; conducts ride-alongs and field coaching; investigates vehicle and mobile-equipment incidents; supports vehicle maintenance and safe return to service; and develops standards and training for powered industrial trucks, loaders, yard equipment, traffic management, and driver-pedestrian interaction. The role may also support other sites or Safety Managers when specialized expertise is needed.

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 effectively with site leadership, frontline leaders, hourly employees, maintenance, transportation, and contractors.
Strong interpersonal, coaching, training, presentation, and written communication skills.
Highly organized, detail-oriented, field-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced industrial environment.
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; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
At least five years of progressively responsible safety experience in industrial, manufacturing, recycling, transportation, logistics, or similar heavy operations.
Professional certification such as CSP, ASP, OHST, CHST, or progress toward a relevant credential.
Additional experience with DOT and FMCSA requirements, commercial motor vehicle operations, driver qualification, fleet safety, powered industrial trucks, or heavy mobile equipment.

Responsibilities

Lead site injury-reduction strategies with operating leadership, primarily focused 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 translate findings into practical actions.
Lead incident and near-miss investigations, determine root causes and action ownership, and verify corrective actions are sustainable and effective.
Maintain accurate and timely 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 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 supporting safety, quality, reliability, service, and productivity.
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 and pedestrian interaction.
Develop and maintain expertise in the assigned specialty, provide practical guidance, share effective practices, and support other sites or Safety Managers as needed.