Safety Programs & Systems Manager

Baker Electric•Escondido, CA

About The Position

The Safety Programs & Systems Manager is a corporate leadership role responsible for developing, governing, and continuously improving Baker Electric’s enterprise safety programs, management systems, technology, and assurance practices. The role partners across corporate and operational teams to establish consistent, scalable, and effective safety processes that support Baker’s electrical construction operations. The position translates enterprise safety strategy into prioritized programs and measurable outcomes; leads the development and improvement of corporate safety materials and processes; and drives cross-functional initiatives from planning through implementation and sustainment. It also serves as business owner and primary Safety administrator for the company’s safety management platform and related digital tools, coordinating integrations and technology improvements with IT, vendors, and business stakeholders. The role develops a risk-based safety assurance framework, coordinates audits and assessments, and uses findings and safety data to improve programs, training, and systems. It establishes data standards, develops performance measures and reporting, and manages strategic initiatives, governance, stakeholder coordination, and change.

Requirements

5+ years of progressive experience in safety, EHS management systems, program management, safety assurance, continuous improvement, construction safety, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and improving safety programs, standards, procedures, or management-system processes across multiple locations, projects, or business units.
Hands-on experience administering or owning EHS/Safety Management software, including workflows, forms, reporting, user administration, and system optimization.
Strong analytical capabilities, including developing KPIs, dashboards, trend analysis, and management reporting to support decision-making.
Working knowledge of OSHA/Cal-OSHA requirements and construction safety management principles.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical safety requirements into practical business processes and brief senior leadership.
Ability to work effectively across corporate and field functions, influence without direct authority, manage competing priorities, and exercise independent judgment on matters of significance.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365.

Nice To Haves

Experience with EHS platforms, Power BI, HRIS, project-management systems, or similar enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Vice President - Safety and Safety leadership to translate enterprise safety strategy into prioritized programs, initiatives, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
Lead development, review, standardization, and continuous improvement of corporate safety programs, policies, procedures, standards, forms, and supporting tools.
Assess safety processes and identify opportunities to simplify workflows, eliminate duplication, improve consistency, strengthen controls, and increase field adoption.
Lead cross-functional safety improvement initiatives from concept through implementation, including scope, stakeholder alignment, change management, milestones, performance measures, and sustainment.
Establish program governance, review cycles, version control, ownership, and change-management processes.
Monitor emerging safety practices, technology, regulatory developments, and industry trends and recommend strategic improvements.
Serve as business owner and primary Safety administrator for the company’s safety management platform and related digital safety tools.
Partner with Information Technology and business stakeholders on integrations between safety systems and enterprise platforms, including HRIS, project management, learning management, and analytics systems.
Translate business and field requirements into digital workflows for incidents, inspections, observations, corrective actions, audits, training records, equipment or asset inspections, and other safety processes.
Lead implementation and optimization of safety technology, including requirements gathering, vendor coordination, testing, deployment, training, adoption, and post-implementation evaluation.
Manage safety technology vendor relationships and evaluate platform performance, roadmap, service levels, user experience, and return-on-investment opportunities.
Develop and maintain a risk-based safety assurance framework to evaluate implementation and effectiveness of corporate safety programs, critical controls, and management-system requirements.
Design and coordinate program audits, management-system assessments, compliance reviews, and targeted assurance activities with field and corporate Safety leadership.
Evaluate corrective actions for underlying causes and establish processes to verify timely closure and sustained effectiveness.
Use assurance results to inform program updates, training priorities, system enhancements, and annual safety strategy.
Establish data standards and governance practices that improve the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and usability of safety information.
Develop and maintain leading and lagging indicators, scorecards, dashboards, and performance measures for Safety, Operations, and executive leadership.
Partner with analytics and technology teams to enable reliable reporting through tools such as Power BI and Microsoft Fabric and reduce manual or duplicative reporting.
Analyze incident, observation, inspection, audit, corrective-action, and other safety data to identify trends, systemic risks, and improvement opportunities.
Create project plans, roadmaps, milestones, ownership structures, and success measures for strategic safety initiatives.
Facilitate cross-functional working groups and stakeholder meetings to design, implement, and sustain safety improvements.
Partner with Learning & Development to convert program and assurance needs into training, communication, and competency solutions.
Maintain an enterprise view of active safety initiatives to manage priorities, dependencies, accountability, and organizational change.