Safety Manager

Veteran Hiring Solutions•Raleigh, NC

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

This Safety Manager role is crucial for ensuring that all workers on job sites, including self-perform crews and subcontractors, go home safely. The company has a strong safety record, including OSHA SHARP accreditation and national safety excellence awards, which this role is responsible for maintaining and improving. This is a leadership position focused on protecting people and projects, not just compliance. The mission for the first 12 months is to own safety performance across assigned jobsites in the Atlanta or Raleigh market, making safety standards visible and fostering a culture of self-correction among crews. Key responsibilities include running the Construction Safety Management Program, leading job hazard analyses and site safety work plans, and converting incident data into actionable insights for leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a safety-related discipline, or a minimum of 3 years of construction safety management experience.
Safety management on commercial or large industrial projects of $50 million or higher, strongly preferred.
OSHA 500 Authorized Instructor.
Technical awareness in environmental management, including storm water pollution prevention planning (SWPPP) and administration.
Willingness to travel to multiple local job sites.

Nice To Haves

Walks the work: energized by being on site, not managing safety from a screen.
Influence without a hammer: persuasion in practice to get corrections made across subcontractor crews.
Composed when it counts: handles incidents, audits, and inspections without compromising standards.
Builds the culture, not just the file: makes safety standards something crews own.

Responsibilities

Own safety performance across assigned jobsites in the Atlanta or Raleigh market.
Make safety standards visible in the field.
Build site presence where crews self-correct.
Ensure self-perform work and all subcontractors adhere to the same safety expectations.
Run the Construction Safety Management Program on the ground.
Lead job hazard analysis and site safety work plans before work starts.
Convert incident data into actionable reporting for leadership.
Drive recordable incident performance to better than company and regional benchmarks.
Lead job hazard analysis, site safety work plans, and public hazard analysis on every assigned project before site activity begins.
Close site safety inspection findings across self-perform crews and all subcontractors within the correction window.
Stand up a contractor orientation process that works for a multi-lingual workforce.
Convert workers' compensation and general liability claim reviews and inspection data into management-level loss-control reporting.
Represent loss-control performance expectations in pre-bid and post-award meetings.