UniTek Global Services

Safety Specialist

UniTek Global Services  •  $60k - $70k/yr  •  Raleigh, NC (Onsite)  •  10 days ago
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Job Description

UniTek Global Services is seeking a dedicated Safety Specialist to support and promote a safe working environment across all divisions. This role plays a key part in ensuring compliance with company, state, and federal safety standards while helping build a proactive, safety-focused culture.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Maintain accurate records of inspections, incident reports, training and certification records to ensure compliance with all safety‑related regulations.
  • Provide guidance to employees on preventing and reducing safety incidents.
  • Deliver ongoing safety training to reinforce safe work practices and promote a strong safety mindset across the organization.
  • Conduct regular onsite safety audits for both in‑house employees and subcontractors.
  • Participate in OSHA and other safety certification courses as assigned.
  • Support various safety initiatives and perform additional duties as needed.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

  • Associate degree in Safety Management or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety & health preferred.
  • At least 2 years of telecommunications experience and 2 years of safety‑related experience preferred.

Skills & Qualifications

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Working knowledge of safety practices and equipment in the communications industry.
  • Solid understanding of federal and state DOT requirements.
  • Ability to build positive working relationships with field personnel and vendors.

Technical Competencies

  • Knowledge of OSHA regulatory standards and risk management principles.
  • Experience in safety engineering or environmental protection is a plus.
  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel.
  • Ability to solve complex issues accurately and efficiently.

Why Join UniTek

As a Safety Specialist, you’ll play a vital role in protecting our employees and supporting safe, efficient operations across the company. If you’re passionate about safety and enjoy working in a fast‑paced telecommunications environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Salary Range: $60,000 - $70,000

UniTek Global Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

UniTek Global Services

About UniTek Global Services

UniTek Global Services is a family of companies with decades of experience in the telecommunications infrastructure industry. With 65 locations across North America serving National and Regional Carriers, Backhaul Providers and the ever-growing Fiber to the Home markets via traditional carriers, and the increasing entry of the Power Cooperatives into the Rural Broadband Market.

Our Divisions, CI Services, Graycliff Enterprises, Hutchins Telecom, SDT Solutions and Wirecomm all enjoy a great reputation for performance and quality.

While recognized individually for great organizational success on large scale fiber deployments, as a combined force, we are poised for some of the largest and fastest network buildouts in history.

As a leader in the industry, we utilize streamlined project management processes and cost saving technologies such as LIDAR, GIS Walkover As-Built Data Collection and Cloud-based Safety and Reporting Apps to meet our customer’s fast paced needs.

The UniTek family provides engineering, construction, maintenance, installation and project management services with over 750 employees and operations in over 65 locations.

The key to our success is our greatly diversified capabilities, providing all infrastructure components from planning to test and turn-up. The combination of all of these allow us to offer our “integrated project delivery” or turn-key solutions as well as à la carte selections of only those services needed by the customer.

Utilizing our integrated project delivery methods, we have been able to support our customers with increased speed to market and return on investment for their network developments.

Our fast paced and well-organized teams have performed cross-country/ long haul developments, including copper cable removal and disposal, disaster recovery, international cable landings, fiber to the home developments, national asset dispositions, central office decommissioning and many other unique infrastructure projects.

Industry
Telecommunications
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Jackson, Mississippi
Year Founded
2004
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