Vice President, Safety

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

As the Vice President of Safety, s/he will spearhead the organization's safety initiatives, setting the gold standard for safety culture, policies, and procedures. Reporting directly to the executive leadership team, s/he will be entrusted with crafting and executing strategies that ensure the well-being of employees across all operational fronts, cementing the company’s position as an industry leader in safety excellence. This leader will be responsible for building and maintaining a culture of safety. S/he will embody safety as a critical driver for the business.

This position can be based out of Washington DC area (Dulles, VA), Northern California (Union City), Southern California (Garden Grove), Northwest (Portland, OR), or Texas (Dallas). This role will require a willingness to travel extensively (~60%) to project sites nationwide for both over-night and in-day trips for project kickoffs, incident reports and construction.

What You’ll Do

Strategic and Cultural Leadership

• Define and champion the company's safety vision, objectives, and strategies to foster a culture of safety excellence.
• Lead safety business planning efforts, aligning safety initiatives with corporate goals and objectives.
• Drive the development and implementation of company-wide safety and health strategies, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
• Enforce client safety standards and executive expectations, serving as the primary liaison with regulatory bodies on safety matters.
• Flexible Leadership style that allows you to vector effectively between diverse client and audience types, ranging from skilled apprentices to top-line executive presence.
• Build a National Peer Group with other Safety Leading like minded professionals to constantly push the envelope driving Stronger safety culture and initiatives with like progressive companies and owners.
• Foster and enable a culture of care and safety first where all employees, regardless of level in the organization, are empowered to mitigate safety issues.
  
  

Talent Management and Development

• Assist in having each Division Safety Manager to build a local community of practice within the Division and external with likeminded companies and clients so we are seen as an industry thought leader.
• Drive accountability for safety managers and administrators to accomplish safety program goals, compliance, and initiatives.
• Foster a collaborative and supportive work environment, empowering direct reports to drive safety initiatives and achieve organizational goals.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations and provide constructive feedback to enhance individual and team effectiveness.
• Partner with division leadership to develop succession plans and talent pipelines to ensure continuity and sustainability in safety leadership roles.
• Mentor and train safety personnel, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development within the safety department.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to develop robust recruiting programs to ensure adequate talent pipeline
  
  

Program Management

• Oversee all aspects of safety program management across multiple fabrication/assembly plants, construction projects sites including out-of-market locations, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure safety performance, implementing continuous improvement initiatives to mitigate hazards.
• Provide technical expertise on safety policies and programs, conducting training sessions and workshops to enhance safety awareness.
• Facilitate sharing of safety resources across the organization
• Stay abreast of regulatory changes and industry best practices, collaborating with stakeholders to implement effective safety measures.
  
  

Incident Management

• Lead incident management efforts, ensuring timely and thorough investigations, root cause analyses, regulatory reporting, and effective sharing of lessons learned for future prevention
• Strong Investigative Skills to get at the root cause of issues to see where we can improve.
• Ability to work under pressure and not be reactive
• Researcher/teacher – always looking for tools and tactics that can improve our approaches and willingness to partner with our Operations, Engineering, field and fabrication folks, to design safer ways to perform our work – which requires the ability to communicate effectively with helpers to our Leadership. Collaborate with human resources, risk management and insurance teams to mitigate safety-related risks and liabilities effectively.
• Lead workers' compensation and insurance efforts, ensuring proper claims management and proactive risk mitigation.
• Represent the company in litigation proceedings related to safety incidents, cultivating strong partnerships with corporate legal and human resources teams.
  
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

Setting Strategy

• The ability to create and articulate an inspiring vision for the organization, not only for the areas they are directly responsible for, but the enterprise as a whole.
• The inclination to seek and analyze data from a variety of sources to support decisions and to align others with the organization's overall strategy.
• An entrepreneurial and creative approach to developing new, innovative ideas that will stretch the organization and push the boundaries within the industry.
• The ability to effectively balance the desire/need for broad change with an understanding of how much change the organization is capable of handling, to create realistic goals and implementation plans that are achievable and successful.
  
  

Executing for Results

• The ability to set clear and challenging goals while committing the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable in driving results.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations.
• A risk-taker who seeks data and input from others to foresee possible threats or unintended circumstances from decisions; someone who takes smart risks.
• A leader who is viewed by others as having a high degree of integrity and forethought in their approach to making decisions; the ability to act in a transparent and consistent manner while always taking into account what is best for the organization.
  
  

Leading Teams

• The ability to attract and recruit top talent, motivate the team, delegate effectively, celebrate diversity within the team, and manage performance; widely viewed as a strong developer of others.
• The ability to persevere in the face of challenges, and exhibit a steadfast resolve and relentless commitment to higher standards, which commands respect from followers.
• A leader who is self-reflective and aware of their own limitations; leads by example and drives the organization's performance with an attitude of continuous improvement by being open to feedback and self-improvement.
• Relationships and Influence
• Naturally connects and builds strong relationships with others, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively.
• An ability to inspire trust and followership in others through compelling influence, powerful charisma, passion in their beliefs, and active drive.
• Encourages others to share the spotlight and visibly celebrates and supports the success of the team.
• Creates a sense of purpose/meaning for the team that generates followership beyond their own personality and engages others to the greater purpose for the organization as a whole.
  
  

Driving Sustainability

• Firmly believes that both sustainability and profit are in the organization’s best long-term interest.
• Integrates economic, societal, and environmental factors into a purpose-driven strategy, turning sustainability into a competitive advantage.
• Understands and incorporates viewpoints from all key stakeholders to drive decision making and share the benefits.
• Delivers breakthrough innovations and business models that create value for all stakeholders, continually challenging traditional approaches.
• Sets audacious business and sustainability goals, driving concerted action and investments, and stays the course in the face of setbacks or push-back from short-term oriented stakeholders.
  
  

What You Bring To The Table

The successful candidate will have progressive experience in managing safety programs on large-scale construction or other similar job sites. S/he will have extensive knowledge of construction related OSHA, MSHA, federal, state and local regulatory standards, coupled with strong communication skills to convey safety policies effectively.

This leader will have proven leadership experience in managing internal staff and third-party consultants, with a track record of driving organizational change and achieving results. S/he will have experience working for a union contractor and managing safety programs that are collaborative with Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs). S/he will be able to collaborate with clients, trade partners, and field leadership. The successful candidate will have strong attention to detail, organizational skills and ability to work independently in a fast paced environment.

YOU Matter

 

PEOPLE FIRST: BUILDING TALENT BY DESIGN

 

At Southland we aspire to build a workforce that’s as diverse as the people who occupy the buildings we design, build and maintain. Building talent by design is our intentional approach to creating a truly safe, collaborative, and inclusive work environment that fosters growth, empowers professional achievement, and where people are treated with respect at all levels.

 

If you’re someone with a true passion for our industry, a life-long learner, with high accountability and a drive for results we’re looking for you!  At Southland, we hire problem solvers that are focused on providing customer value through continuous improvement and will take ownership to create the best experiences that will have an impact wider than their own job.  We thrive on creating a strong company and culture where you’ll feel engaged, challenged, and valued.

 

If you’re ready for the next big step in your career and want a career full of fun and excitement and to be a part of a fast-paced growing company, then JOIN our team and become a part of an organization that values PEOPLE, SAFETY, INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, INTEGRITY, ACCOUNTABILITY & SUSTAINABILITY.

Benefits

As an employee-owned company, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes excellent benefits for you and your family:

• 401(k) Plan with 50% Company Match (no cap) and immediate 100% vesting
• Annual incentive program based upon performance, profitability, and achievement
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance – 100% Paid for Employee
• Term Life, AD&D Insurance, and Voluntary Life Insurance
• Disability Income Protection Insurance
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Plans (Health and Dependent Care)
• Holidays/Vacation/Personal Time/Life Events Leave
• Numerous training opportunities and company paid membership for professional associations and licenses
  
  

 

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Southland Industries and all its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing our employees with a safe work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Southland Industries are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, family care or medical leave status, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Southland Industries will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

 

• All employment offers are contingent upon successful, drug tests, background checks and professional reference checks. **
  
  

 

• We are not able to offer sponsorship of employment at this time**
  
  

 

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