Senior Director of Safety

Role Overview

• Establish and execute the enterprise safety strategy in alignment with the organization's strategic plan.
• Serve as the executive sponsor for company-wide safety initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.
• Partner with Executive Leadership to integrate safety into operational planning, business development, customer engagement, and organizational decision making.
• Develop multi-year strategic roadmaps that improve organizational performance while supporting growth objectives.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing safety organization capable of supporting multiple business units and future growth.
• Establish accountability, performance expectations, succession planning, and leadership development within the safety function.
• Build cross-functional partnerships that strengthen collaboration between Safety, Operations, Commercial, Human Resources, Fleet, and other support functions.
• Maintain a highly visible presence across field operations to understand business challenges, reinforce expectations, and ensure safety programs remain practical and effective.
• Drive consistency in safety management systems, risk mitigation strategies, incident investigations, and corrective action processes.
• Utilize data analytics and leading indicators to proactively identify trends and improve organizational performance.
• Provide executive oversight of compliance with OSHA, DOT, FMCSA, and other federal, state, local, and customer-specific requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive environmental, health, and safety leadership experience, including executive or senior leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise safety programs supporting geographically dispersed, multi-site field operations.
• Experience supporting organizations operating within renewable energy, construction, industrial services, utilities, infrastructure, or similarly complex operational environments.
• Proven success influencing executive leadership while driving organizational change and continuous improvement.
• Experience leading organizations through periods of growth, operational transformation, or cultural change.
• Demonstrated success developing scalable safety management systems that improve both leading and lagging performance indicators.
• Ability to travel as required.