Field Safety Leader: Inspections & Training

Alaska Power & Telephone Company; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Alaska Power & Telephone Company is seeking a Safety Manager to lead day-to-day implementation of approved safety programs across all locations, maintaining a strong field presence, conducting inspections and investigations, coordinating training, and tracking corrective actions to completion.

The role operates under the Director of Safety & Training, with enterprise program ownership retained at the Director level; traveling within Alaska is required to support safety across remote locations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and health, safety management, engineering, industrial hygiene, environmental health, or a related field.
• Five or more years of relevant safety or high-hazard operational experience.
• Experience conducting field inspections, incident investigations, training, hazard assessments, and corrective-action follow-up across multiple locations.
• Ability to travel extensively within Alaska, including by various modes of transport, and overnight in remote communities.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to meet AP&T driving requirements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the ability to use safety, training, and reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Implement AP&T safety policies, written programs, procedures, tools, and annual priorities consistently across all company locations.
• Develop and maintain a risk-based field-visit schedule approved by the Director, including remote and difficult-to-access sites.
• Maintain regular field presence and provide practical safety coaching to employees, supervisors, managers, project teams, and contractors.
• Conduct and document facility, shop, yard, vehicle, generation, substation, line, telecommunications, warehouse, office, project, and jobsite inspections within assigned scope.
• Identify hazards, assess risk, recommend controls, assign or document responsible operating owners, establish due dates, and verify completion.
• Maintain the centralized corrective-action log and promptly elevate high-risk, repeated, disputed, or overdue items to the Director.
• Support pre-job briefings, job hazard analyses, energized work planning, lockout/tagout, confined-space entry, fall protection, traffic control, lifting/rigging, excavation, PPE, hazardous materials, and other applicable high-risk work controls.
• Reinforce that operating leaders remain responsible for work methods, employee direction, and timely correction of hazards.
• Respond to assigned injuries, illnesses, near misses, vehicle incidents, property damage, environmental events with a safety component, and other operational events.
• Lead routine investigations and support significant investigations under the direction of the Director.
• Preserve evidence and prepare clear timelines, photographs, interview notes, findings, contributing factors, and recommended corrective actions.
• Immediately notify the Director of fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, loss of an eye, high-potential events, serious employee or public exposure, agency contact, or other significant events.
• Do not independently make regulatory reports unless specifically delegated; provide complete and timely information so the Director can determine and coordinate reporting obligations.
• Coordinate with Employee Services on assigned workers’ compensation information, return-to-work considerations, and employee communications while maintaining confidentiality.
• Communicate approved lessons learned and verify that site-level corrective actions are implemented.
• Deliver or coordinate assigned orientation, regulatory, refresher, supervisor, toolbox, and site-specific training using approved materials and qualified instructors.
• Maintain assigned training records and report gaps, expirations, and scheduling needs through the company learning management process.
• Assist the Director with the training matrix by identifying field needs, changes in work, and recurring performance gaps.
• Assess practical training effectiveness through field observation, employee feedback, and review of incidents or repeated hazards.
• Prepare practical safety alerts, field materials, and meeting topics for Director approval when company-wide distribution is appropriate.
• Support property safety representatives and operating managers in conducting effective local safety meetings.
• Complete assigned contractor safety reviews, orientations, site observations, and documentation using company standards.
• Coordinate with project managers before higher-risk work begins to confirm expectations, responsibilities, and required documentation.
• Document contractor concerns and work through the responsible AP&T manager to obtain timely correction.
• Immediately elevate serious contractor hazards, repeated noncompliance, or unresolved responsibility issues to the Director and project owner.
• Assist with post-project reviews and recommend field-level improvements.
• Maintain accurate inspection, investigation, training, field-observation, and corrective-action records for assigned work.
• Compile field data and provide recurring reports to the Director on site coverage, findings, corrective actions, training completion, and emerging risks.
• Support audits, regulatory inspections, insurer visits, and document requests as directed by the Director.
• Assist with procedure updates, safety equipment evaluations, vendor coordination, and budget estimates by providing field information and recommendations.
• Perform assigned administrative support for fleet/DOT, drug and alcohol, UAS, apprenticeship, LMS, or loss-control programs without assuming enterprise program ownership unless formally delegated in writing.
• May direct or recommend an immediate pause in work when an imminent or serious safety risk is observed, consistent with company policy and delegated authority.
• May require immediate interim controls and request corrective-action plans from responsible managers.
• Escalates material compliance concerns, serious incidents, agency contact, repeated hazards, resource constraints, and overdue high-risk actions to the Director.
• Does not independently approve corporate safety policy, make final regulatory determinations, commit AP&T to agency positions, or assume operational control of a department.
• Uses qualified technical resources when specialized expertise or credentials are required.

Skills

Field inspections

Incident investigations

Training delivery

Recordkeeping

Safety coaching

Microsoft 365

Education

Bachelor’s degree in safety-related field

Equivalent combination of education and safety experience

Tools

Microsoft 365

Safety reporting systems

Job description

Alaska Power & Telephone Company is seeking a Safety Manager to lead day-to-day implementation of approved safety programs across all locations, maintaining a strong field presence, conducting inspections and investigations, coordinating training, and tracking corrective actions to completion.

The role operates under the Director of Safety & Training, with enterprise program ownership retained at the Director level; traveling within Alaska is required to support safety across remote locations