What you'll do:
- Own day-to-day administration of the UFT Safety Program across all operating entities, including driving adoption, managing employee acknowledgments, keeping procedures current, and evolving the program as the platform grows.
- Serve as the working owner of the program's core elements: incident reporting, injury management and return to work, hazard identification and control, and first aid/CPR readiness.
- Coordinate with entity-level safety coordinators and operations teams to support their safety programs to bring standards, tools, and coaching alongside local ownership.
- Operate the incident reporting process end to end injuries, illnesses, near misses, property damage, and vehicle incidents: intake, risk assessment, investigation, and root-cause analysis.
- Drive corrective actions to documented closure and maintain complete, audit-ready incident records.
- Administer the injury management and return-to-work program: immediate care coordination, workers' compensation claim intake with HR and carriers, transitional/modified-duty planning, and case tracking through release.
- Conduct field audits and hazard assessments; review job hazard analyses and pre-task planning; assign corrective actions and verify closure. Exercise stop-work authority for imminent-danger conditions.
- Own high-hazard field elements for our work: confined-space entry (manhole and lift-station operations), crane and rigging, excavation, fall protection, and PPE standards.
- Support safe warehouse operations across entities, including housekeeping, material handling and storage, powered-equipment practices, and general facility safety awareness.
- Provide general shop safety oversight and support safe work practices, equipment and PPE awareness, and coordination with local teams on hazard identification and corrective actions.
Training & Field Enablement
- Deliver the Safety Program in the field: new-hire safety orientation and acknowledgments, toolbox talks, first aid/CPR coverage, competent-person training, and the accident-reporting training rollout.
- Partner on engaging safety communications distributed through corporate channels.
Fleet & DOT Safety Support
- Support the fleet safety program within the broader Safety Program: driver qualification and DOT compliance fundamentals, telematics-based driver coaching, and vehicle incident response.
Acquisition Integration & Reporting
- Bring newly acquired companies onto the Safety Program using the established integration playbook to highlight day-one program distribution, acknowledgments, training, and incident-chain activation.
- Track and report leading and lagging indicators for TRIR/DART, near-miss reporting, incident rates, corrective-action closure, and audit scores to the Director and executive leadership.
What you bring:
Required
- Bachelor's degree in occupational safety or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and field experience.
- Five to seven years of occupational safety experience in field-based environments (utility, construction, or infrastructure), including at least three years administering a written safety program across multiple locations.
- Demonstrated ownership of incident reporting, investigation, and root-cause analysis, with corrective-action management to closure.
- Experience administering injury management / return-to-work programs and coordinating workers' compensation claims with HR and carriers.
- Working knowledge of OSHA standards applicable to field service work, and familiarity with DOT/FMCSA driver-compliance fundamentals.
- Valid driver's license, clean MVR, and willingness to travel approximately 50% across a multi-state footprint.
Preferred
- CSP, ASP, CHST, or CDS certification; first aid/CPR instructor credential.
- Experience integrating acquired companies or new business units into an enterprise safety program.
- Confined-space and crane/rigging program experience in utility, water, or underground infrastructure environments.
- Hands-on experience with telematics/camera coaching platforms (Samsara or equivalent).
- Bilingual English/Spanish.