About This Role
Leading, managing, and continuously improving the company-wide safety program is the core of this role. The Safety Director ensures a strong safety culture across all field operations, service work, prefabrication, industrial maintenance, commercial construction, and special projects. This position suits a hands-on leader with a strong understanding of the electrical construction industry, who can balance compliance, coaching, accountability, and practical field execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage Hi-Tech Electric's company-wide safety program across construction, service, maintenance, prefabrication, and industrial project environments
- Ensure compliance with OSHA, MIOSHA, NFPA 70E, company safety policies, customer-specific safety rules, and applicable federal, state, and local safety requirements
- Develop, maintain, and enforce safety policies, procedures, training programs, and field safety expectations
- Conduct regular jobsite safety audits, inspections, observations, and field coaching visits
- Work directly with foremen, project managers, superintendents, service leaders, and field employees to identify hazards and correct unsafe conditions
- Support daily Job Safety Analyses, pre-task planning, hazard recognition, and jobsite safety communication
- Lead and document weekly toolbox talk programs, safety stand-downs, safety alerts, and lessons-learned communications
- Manage NFPA 70E electrical safety compliance, including arc flash awareness, energized work controls, electrical safe work practices, PPE requirements, approach boundaries, and lockout/tagout expectations
- Review and enforce Lockout/Tagout procedures for energized equipment and electrical maintenance activities
- Support the review and approval process for energized electrical work, hot work, confined space, excavation, lift, and other high-risk work activities
- Investigate incidents, injuries, near misses, property damage, and unsafe conditions; lead root cause analysis and corrective action follow-up
- Maintain OSHA/MIOSHA logs, safety records, training records, incident files, inspection reports, PPE documentation, and customer-required compliance records
- Track and report safety performance metrics, including OSHA recordables, near misses, corrective actions, safety observations, training completion, and NFPA 70E compliance
- Coordinate with insurance carriers, third-party safety platforms, customer safety portals, and prequalification systems as required
- Assist with customer site orientations, contractor prequalification requirements, and project-specific safety plans
- Support onboarding and new-hire safety orientation for field and office personnel
- Evaluate subcontractor safety compliance when subcontractors are used on Hi-Tech Electric projects
