Senior Safety Manager - Mission Critical

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POSITION SUMMARY The Senior Safety Manager, Mission Critical, is a senior safety leader responsible for driving safety excellence across Veit's Mission Critical construction projects. This role provides direct leadership, consultation, and oversight for large-scale, high-profile data center and mission critical projects, ensuring alignment with Veit safety standards, client expectations, and regulatory requirements. This role serves as a strategic safety partner to operational teams, project leadership, clients, trade partners, and safety professionals, fostering a proactive safety culture focused on incident prevention, hazard recognition, planning, accountability, and continuous improvement. The Senior Safety Manager plays a critical role in supporting Veit's growth in the mission critical market by ensuring world-class safety performance while reinforcing Veit's commitment that every employee returns home safely every day. This position requires extensive travel and field presence, with approximately 90–100% travel supporting projects across multiple states.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Mission Critical Safety Leadership • Serve as the safety leader supporting Veit's mission critical and data center construction operations nationwide. • Establish strong partnerships with project executives, project managers, superintendents, clients, and trade partners to achieve world-class safety performance. • Champion a zero-incident culture through visible leadership, coaching, engagement, and accountability at all levels. • Provide consistent safety leadership throughout all phases of project planning, mobilization, execution, commissioning, and closeout. • Ensure safety remains integrated into production planning, operational decision-making, and daily field activities. •

Project Safety Oversight & Risk Management • Provide direct oversight of safety performance across multiple mission critical projects simultaneously. • Conduct comprehensive site audits, inspections, observations, and field assessments to proactively identify and mitigate risk. • Lead project risk reviews and participate in pre-task planning, Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), Activity Hazard Analysis (AHA), and critical lift reviews. • Verify implementation and effectiveness of site-specific safety plans, permits, and client-required safety programs. • Support project teams in identifying emerging risks associated with accelerated schedules, complex logistics, energized systems, confined spaces, crane operations, excavation activities, and high-risk construction work. • Ensure corrective actions are developed, communicated, and effectively implemented.

Client Partnership & Mission Critical Excellence • Build trusted relationships with mission critical clients, owners, construction managers, and trade partners. • Represent Veit during client audits, leadership meetings, safety stand-downs, and executive safety reviews. • Collaborate with clients to ensure compliance with project-specific safety requirements and contractual obligations. • Support project pursuits and preconstruction efforts by providing safety expertise and demonstrating Veit's safety capabilities. • Serve as a safety ambassador, reinforcing Veit's reputation for industry-leading safety performance and operational excellence.

Incident Prevention, Investigation & Continuous Improvement • Lead investigations of incidents, near misses, property damage events, and high-potential exposures. • Facilitate root cause analysis and development of sustainable corrective actions. • Track, analyze, and communicate safety performance metrics, trends, and leading indicators. • Utilize data, field observations, and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement initiatives. • Share best practices and lessons learned across mission critical and broader company operations.

Safety Program Development & Compliance • Ensure compliance with OSHA, federal, state, local, and client-specific safety requirements. • Support development, implementation, and continuous improvement of company safety policies, programs, and procedures. • Maintain knowledge of regulatory changes, industry trends, and emerging best practices. • Partner with operational leaders to ensure consistent application of Veit safety standards across all project locations. • Coordinate regulatory inspections and serve as a key point of contact for safety-related agency interactions when required.

Training, Coaching & Workforce Development • Mentor and develop site safety specialists, safety consultants, project leaders, and field personnel. • Provide coaching and leadership to project teams regarding hazard recognition, risk mitigation, and safety leadership practices. • Develop and deliver safety training. • Support workforce development efforts focused on improving safety competency, engagement, and accountability. • Reinforce a culture where frontline employees actively participate in identifying hazards and improving safety performance.

People Leadership & Collaboration • Provide leadership and direction to assigned safety personnel supporting mission critical operations. • Build strong working relationships across Operations, Fleet, Workforce Development, Human Resources, and Operational Excellence teams. • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and employee engagement. • Influence stakeholders without direct authority to achieve safety objectives and operational alignment.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: • Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Construction Management, Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety, or related field (or equivalent experience). • Minimum 10+ years of progressive construction safety experience with at least 5 years supporting large-scale mission critical, data center, industrial, or complex construction projects. • Demonstrated experience leading safety programs across multiple states and job locations. • Ext

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