Job Description

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.