Field Safety Leader: Inspections, Training & Risk Champions

Alaska Power & Telephone; Wasilla (AK); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Alaska Power & Telephone seeks a Safety Manager to lead day-to-day safety program implementation across all locations in Alaska, with a strong field presence and emphasis on inspections and investigations.

The role supports employees and managers, coordinates training, and tracks corrective actions through verified completion, reporting to the Director of Safety & Training. Extensive Alaska travel is required to ensure safety across sites.

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, preferably in electric utility, telecommunications, construction, industrial, generation, transportation, or remote operations.
• Experience conducting field inspections, incident investigations, training, hazard assessments, and corrective-action follow-up across multiple locations.
• Working knowledge of occupational safety requirements and common high-hazard work controls.
• Ability to travel extensively within Alaska, including by commercial aircraft, small aircraft, ferry, boat, and company vehicle, and remain 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.

Skills

Field inspections

Incident investigations

Training coordination

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and health, safety management, engineering, industrial hygiene, environmental health, or related field

Job description

Alaska Power & Telephone seeks a Safety Manager to lead day-to-day safety program implementation across all locations in Alaska, with a strong field presence and emphasis on inspections and investigations.

The role supports employees and managers, coordinates training, and tracks corrective actions through verified completion, reporting to the Director of Safety & Training. Extensive Alaska travel is required to ensure safety across sites.