Safety Director

Klover SEPA•Quakertown, PA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Safety Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the company’s safety and risk management programs across both prefabrication operations and field installation crews. This role leads the organization in creating a best-in-class safety culture focused on proactiveness, and accountability embedded directly into production. This role minimizes risk exposure and reduces incident rates and EMR through effective incident prevention, training, enforcement, and claims management practices ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policy. The Safety Director operates at both a strategic and operational level, partnering with executive leadership, field & prefab facility operations, and project teams to embed safety into all aspects of work execution.

Requirements

Associates or bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Health, Industrial Engineering, or related fields.
OSHA 30 Construction Industry and/or General Industry Certification.
7-10 years’ experience in a safety leadership role proven to establish and improve safety culture.
Proficiency in MS Office 365.
Prior experience in conducting safety training both on-site and in a classroom setting.
Full dexterity of their hands and arms.
Ability to see objects close and far away.
Ability to focus on the sound in particular that is associated with the task they are completing.
Must be fit for duty and not report to work under the influence of a mind altering or performance altering substance.
Must not be found to be possessing or using a mind or performance altering substance while performing any Company task.

Nice To Haves

CSP, CSD, OSHA 500, CHST (preferred)
Prior experience in a field construction role preferred.
Knowledge in advanced manufacturing technology and welding.
Previous work in an industrial construction environment.

Responsibilities

Promote a Safety Culture: Champion a "think safe- work safe" culture across all levels of the organization and collaborate with management and employees to motivate and ensure engagement and accountability in safety initiatives.
Establish and communicate a clear company-wide safety vision, strategy, and expectations aligned with “best-in-class” performance.
Drive a behavior-based safety culture that emphasizes safe production is the expectation- not a tradeoff.
Employees at all levels are: Expected to identify hazards, Empowered to initiate improvements or stop work, Held accountable for unsafe behaviors.
Lead initiatives that reinforce daily safety ownership at the crew or jig level.
Partner with operations leadership to ensure safety is integrated into planning, scheduling, and production expectations (not treated as a parallel function).
Drive consistency across multiple crews, foremen, and jobsites simultaneously, often under varying GC-controlled environments.
Align internal culture with external site rules (GCs/owners) while maintaining company standards.
Ensure immediate correction of unsafe behaviors, unsafe conditions, non-compliance with company or GC standards.
Create a structured system for progressive discipline and corrective action tracking.
Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Conduct regular site and prefab facility inspections, audits, and job hazard analyses (JHAs) to proactively identify potential hazards and implement corrective measures to eliminate or minimize risks.
Training and Education: Oversee the development of safety training programs for employees, managers, and subcontractors on safe work practices, hazard recognition, emergency response, and proper handling of materials or equipment.
Develop front line supervisors’ safety leadership so that safety is owned at the crew level, not just by the safety staff.
Claims Management & Risk Control: Actively manage WC,GL, Auto claims across insurance carriers, third party administrators, legal, and internal HR/Operations.
Implement best practices in reducing claim severity and return to work programs.
Identify root causes to feed changes back to training & enforcement.
Policy and Program Development: Create, implement, and update comprehensive health and safety policies, procedures, and manuals in compliance with regulatory requirements.
Data Analysis and Metrics: Oversee tracking, analysis, and reporting on safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), trends, and incident rates to leadership to drive continuous improvement.
Oversee Safety Manager’s development of project and task specific safety programs such as JSA’s.
Attend Safety Manager led Safety Committee meetings to receive feedback and drive safety initiatives.
Oversee Safety Manager pre-planning jobsite meetings.
Attend or conduct meetings when required.
Ensure that all employees achieve the proper training requirements as per the OSHA and company standards.
If necessary, facilitate training for site personnel for compliance.
Stop at once any violation or unsafe practice.
Oversee Safety Manager led investigation of incidents, root cause analysis, reporting, trend development, and corrective actions.
Annually Review and update the company Health and Safety Program to ensure compliance with Local, State, and Federal Regulations and Requirements.
Other duties and projects as assigned.
Required to adhere to all Klover policies and procedures.
Oversee safety manager.
Oversee admin services staff with partial safety admin responsibilities.