Safety Manager

Veteran Hiring Solutions•Atlanta, GA

8h•$100,000 - $120,000•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 is maintained by a Safety Manager who actively identifies and addresses hazards. 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 understood by all crews, regardless of language. The role involves running the Construction Safety Management Program, leading job hazard analyses and site safety work plans, and converting incident data into actionable insights for leadership. Performance is measured by the absence of incidents.

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. This is an office job that is field based. The person who wins here is energized by being on site at 7 a.m., not by managing safety from a screen. The site is where the job is done.
Influence without a hammer. A Safety Manager at a top general contractor has authority on paper and persuasion in practice. You will get corrections made across subcontractor crews who do not report to you, and across crews who may not share your first language. People follow the safety leader they respect, not the one they are told to obey.
Composed when it counts. Incidents, audits, and inspections do not announce themselves on a convenient schedule. The standard does not move because the day got hard.
Builds the culture, not just the file. This contractor has built a genuine safety reputation. This seat protects it by making the standard something crews own, not something they dodge.

Responsibilities

Drive recordable incident performance on assigned sites to better than the company and regional benchmark within the first 12 months, measured against the current TRIR baseline.
Lead job hazard analysis, site safety work plans, and public hazard analysis on every assigned project before site activity begins, measured by zero work starts without an accepted plan in place.
Close site safety inspection findings across self-perform crews and all subcontractors within the correction window, measured by open-finding aging and repeat-finding rate.
Stand up a contractor orientation process that works for a multi-lingual workforce, measured by orientation completion before first day on site, with no untrained worker on the wall.
Convert workers' compensation and general liability claim reviews and inspection data into management-level loss-control reporting that leadership uses to make decisions, delivered on a consistent reporting cadence.
Represent loss-control performance expectations in pre-bid and post-award meetings so safety is priced and planned in, not bolted on after award.