Manager, Safety

Liberty Tire Recycling•Baytown, 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 also serves as the site subject-matter expert for process and manufacturing risk, fire prevention, combustible-material hazards, machine safety, hazardous-energy control, and emergency preparedness. It may support other sites or Safety Managers with specialized expertise. Liberty Tire Recycling operates approximately 60 sites in the United States and Canada and has nearly 4,000 employees. The company recycles more than 210 million tires annually and describes its work as supporting sustainability through reclaiming, recycling, and reusing materials.

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, and field-oriented, with the ability 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.
At least five years of progressively responsible safety experience in industrial, manufacturing, recycling, transportation, logistics, or similar heavy operations preferred.

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, or CHST, or progress toward a relevant credential, strongly preferred.
Additional experience with machine safeguarding, lockout/tagout, hot work, fire prevention or protection, emergency response, process risk assessment, or high-hazard manufacturing 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, confirm 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 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 visible 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 process and manufacturing risk, fire prevention, combustible-material hazards, machine safety, hazardous-energy control, and emergency preparedness.
Lead or support risk assessments for new or modified equipment, processes, materials, layouts, tooling, startups, shutdowns, and non-routine work.
Partner with operations and maintenance to strengthen machine guarding, lockout/tagout, hot work, contractor controls, safe return to service, and risk management during outages and breakdowns.
Evaluate fire prevention and protection needs, including ignition sources, housekeeping, combustible accumulations, storage, detection, suppression, and emergency response readiness.
Assess conveyor, shredder, grinder, material-handling, struck-by, caught-in or between, ergonomic, and workflow risks; prioritize engineering controls and verify their effectiveness.
Use incident, audit, downtime, maintenance, and operating trends to identify high-risk conditions and sustain practical manufacturing-risk improvements.
Develop and maintain expertise in the assigned specialty, provide practical guidance, share lessons learned and effective practices, and support other sites or Safety Managers when specialized expertise is needed.