Overview:
The Senior Safety Manager is responsible for regional safety execution across Alterman projects and service work. This role leads a team of Safety Coordinators and Senior Safety Coordinators and establishes clear expectations for field presence, coaching, hazard control, documentation quality, and follow-through. The Senior Safety Manager partners with Operations leadership to integrate safety into planning and production, strengthen field discipline on high-risk activities, and ensure consistent, measurable execution of Alterman safety standards across all jobsites.
Essential Functions:
1. Regional Safety Leadership & Execution: 30%
- Leads and manages the assigned safety team, driving consistent, high-quality field execution across all work types.
- Establishes regional expectations and operating standards for safety program execution.
- Creates and maintains a regional operational rhythm (weekly priorities, team huddles, field verification cadence, and follow up routines) aligned with project risk and upcoming critical work.
- Deploys and adjusts safety coverage based on risk and division growth.
- Audits the quality of the safety team’s work product: clarity of findings, strength of corrective actions, timeliness, consistency, and effective verification.
- Coaches, develops, and evaluates safety team members through field coaching, 1:1s, competency reviews, and performance feedback.
- Ensures field teams understand expectations for critical risk controls, including observable behaviors and verified conditions.
- Supports hiring, onboarding, training plans, mentoring, and succession readiness for the regional safety team.
2. Operational Partnership & Field Influence: 20%
- Partners with Superintendents, General Foremen, Foremen, and Project Management to integrate safety into pre-planning, sequencing, staffing, means/methods, and day to day execution.
- Provides visible, credible field leadership, building alignment while holding firm to Alterman’s Safety Culture.
- Strengthens frontline leadership behaviors, including pre-task planning quality, hazard recognition, correction habits, and consistency in enforcing standards.
- Participates in project planning and coordination meetings (as required) to ensure high-risk work is planned with appropriate controls.
3. Inspections, Observations & Corrective Action Follow-Through: 15%
- Drives leading indicator performance through a structured program of inspections, observations, audits, and hazard reporting.
- Ensures safety findings are specific and actionable, with clear ownership, deadlines, and risk-based prioritization.
- Requires verification of corrective action completion and effectiveness, rather than closure without field confirmation.
- Uses trends from inspections, near misses, and incident learnings to set monthly/seasonal focus areas and reduce repeat exposures.
4. Incident Response, Investigations, and Learning: 15%
- Leads and/or oversees response to incidents, near misses, property/equipment events, and vehicle related events in the region.
- Ensures timely reporting, scene stabilization, initial fact gathering, accurate documentation, evidence preservation, and notifications meet expectations of Incident & Care Management Programs.
- Ensures investigations are completed with quality and credibility, including clear timelines, factual statements, evidence capture, meaningful contributing factors, and corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
- Drives learning loops by communicating lessons learned to leaders and crews, embedding changes into planning, and verifying adoption in the field.
5. Client & Subcontractor Safety Coordination: 10%
- Represents Alterman in a professional manner with clients and General Contractors, participating in safety meetings, site orientations, and audits.
- Supports subcontractor safety expectations on jobsites including compliance with site requirements.
- Maintains constructive relationships while protecting Alterman’s standards and consistency.
6. Standards, Accountability, and Documentation Discipline: 10%
- Maintain high standards for timely, factual, complete documentation across inspections, incidents, and corrective actions.
- Reinforce consistency and fairness in safety enforcement, ensuring interventions match the risk and severity of exposure.
- Ensure supervisors understand expectations and that safety accountability is applied consistently across the region.
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 7+ years of construction safety experience and 3+ years of manager level experience (electrical construction strongly preferred).
- Demonstrated leadership over multi-project safety execution and field team performance (formal people management preferred).
- Strong working knowledge of OSHA construction standards and practical application in active work environments.
- CHST, ASP, CSP, OHST or equivalent safety credentials.
- Experience supporting complex projects and multi-project coverage needs.
- Proven ability to influence operations leaders, coach supervisors, and hold standards under schedule pressure.
- Strong investigation leadership with a track record of producing actionable corrective actions.
Skills/Abilities:
- Able to communicate clearly and calmly at all levels, from field crews to executives and utility clients.
- Able to mentor and influence crews and safety staff to reinforce accountability and a culture of prevention.
- Able to build and deliver effective pre-job briefings, verify minimum approach distance (MAD) calculations, and manage control of energy sources, including switching, clearance, reclosers, and remote devices.
- Strong ability to operate within the Incident Command System (ICS) during storm operations, including managing fatigue, staging/base camp safety, and coordination with leadership, utility representatives, and mutual assistance partners.
- Strong ability to investigate incidents and near misses, identify root causes, and recommend SMART corrective actions.
- Proficient in maintaining precise, timely, and compliant documentation, including job briefings, JSAs, switching/clearance notes, incident reports, and utility-specific forms.
- Proficient in applying OSHA 1910.269 and 1926 Subpart V, NESC (ANSI C2), and MUTCD Part 6 for temporary traffic control.
- Skilled in conducting arc flash hazard assessments and selecting appropriate FR and arc-rated clothing to ensure full-body protection.
- Knowledgeable in T&D rescue methods, including pole-top, bucket, and vault rescues, with readiness to perform or direct emergency response as required.
- Familiarity with mutual-assistance operations.
Work Environment:
- Frequently works on active construction sites, indoors and outdoors.
- Outdoor work environment with exposure to varying weather conditions, loud noise levels, uneven surfaces, and potential hazards.
Physical Demands:
- Able to stand, walk, climb, bend, reach, stoop, kneel, lift, carry, push, handle products, and stretch for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds at times.
- Must be able to wear PPE for extended periods of time.
