Manager, Safety

Liberty Tire Recycling, LLC; Midlothian (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Tire Recycling, LLC is seeking a hands‑on Manager, Safety at our Midlothian, TX site to reduce injuries, strengthen compliance, and improve safety performance. The role blends field presence with data‑driven decision making, coaching, training, and practical risk reduction.

The Safety Manager acts as a site SME for safety programs, partnering with leadership to embed safe work methods, drive audits, and sustain corrective actions across operations with an hourly workforce.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to interpret safety data and convert findings into action.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA requirements and practical safety management in industrial, production, transportation, logistics, or recycling environments.
• Experience managing safety performance through KPIs, audits, observations, investigations, corrective actions, training, and operating reviews.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with site leadership, frontline leaders, hourly employees, maintenance, transportation, and contractors.
• Strong interpersonal, coaching, training, presentation, and written communication skills.
• Highly organized, detail‑oriented, field‑oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced industrial environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead site injury‑reduction strategies with operating leadership, focusing on hourly employees' safety.
• Establish, monitor, and improve leading and lagging safety indicators (TRIR, DART, near misses, audits, observations).
• Analyze incident, audit, observation, ergonomic, and operating data to identify trends and convert findings into actions.
• Lead incident and near‑miss investigations, confirm root causes, and ensure corrective actions are sustained.
• Maintain incident records, notifications, investigation docs, and regulatory information; escalate significant issues.
• Conduct routine audits and field observations to verify OSHA compliance and site controls.
• Assess risks and recommend engineering, administrative, and work‑practice controls.
• Partner with site leaders to integrate safe work methods into daily plans and standard work.
• Deliver targeted safety training and coach leaders on hazard recognition and accountability.
• Report safety performance, unresolved risks, and corrective actions through operating reviews.
• Exercise stop‑work authority when imminent danger or serious exposure exists; verify controls before resuming work.
• Build site safety capability through field support, cross‑training, and repeatable tools.

Skills

Analytical skills

OSHA knowledge

Safety data interpretation

Influence and collaboration

Interpersonal communication

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in safety-related field

Job description

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Manager, Safety

G & A Regular Full-Time Midlothian, TX, US

3 days ago Requisition ID: 3160

Salary: $100,000.00 Annually

About Us

Liberty Tire Recycling is a high-growth company and the premier provider of tire recycling services in North America with operations throughout the United States and Canada. Liberty Tire annually transforms more than 210 million tires into raw materials for smart, sustainable products that improve our environment and people’s lives. The Company is private equity owned, has approximately 60 sites in the US and Canada, and nearly 4,000 employees. With innovative tools, technologies and processes, Liberty Tire is a revolutionary American conservation enterprise – from coast to coast, and from whole tire to end products. The company’s commitment to finding new and better ways to RECLAIM, RECYCLE and REUSE bridges the sustainability goals of scrap tire generators nationwide with those of local scrap rubber consumers.

Position Summary:

Liberty Tire Recycling is seeking a hands‑on Safety Manager to partner with leadership at an assigned site to reduce injuries, strengthen compliance, and improve safety performance. This role combines field presence, data‑driven decision‑making, coaching, training, incident prevention, and practical risk reduction. The Safety Manager will serve as the site's safety advisor and develop subject‑matter expertise “SME”in an assigned specialty while operating leaders retain accountability for safe daily execution.

Core Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead site injury‑reduction strategies with operating leadership, with a primary focus on the safety of hourly employees.
• Establish, monitor, and improve leading and lagging safety indicators, including TRIR, DART, near misses, audits, observations, training completion, and corrective‑action closure.
• Analyze incident, audit, observation, ergonomic, and operating data to identify trends, prioritize risk, and convert findings into practical actions.
• Lead incident and near‑miss investigations, confirm root causes and action ownership, and verify that corrective actions are sustainable and effective.
• Maintain accurate and timely incident records, internal notifications, investigation documentation, and required regulatory information; es
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  alate significant issues as appropriate.
• Conduct routine audits and field observations to verify compliance with OSHA requirements, company standards, and site‑specific controls.
• Assess equipment, material‑handling, ergonomic, task, and work‑area risks; recommend effective engineering, administrative, and work‑practice controls.
• Partner with site leaders, supervisors, maintenance, transportation, and employees to integrate safe work methods and risk controls into daily plans and standard work.
• Deliver targeted safety training and coach leaders and employees on hazard recognition, intervention, qualification expectations, and accountability.
• Report safety performance, unresolved risks, corrective‑action status, and recommended priorities through established operating reviews.
• Exercise stop‑work authority when imminent danger, serious uncontrolled exposure, or a material safety violation exists; verify effective controls before work resumes.
• Build site safety capability through visible field support, cross‑training, repeatable tools, lessons learned, and continuous improvement that supports safety, quality, reliability, service, and productivity.

Additional SME Responsibilities

• Serve as the site SME for transportation safety, DOT and FMCSA compliance, driver risk, fleet readiness, and mobile‑equipment hazards.
• Partner with transportation leadership on route planning, driver scheduling, loading, unloading, customer‑site work, driver qualification, and safe fleet deployment.
• Conduct ride‑alongs, route reviews, vehicle and mobile‑equipment observations, and field coaching for CDL and non‑CDL drivers, dispatchers, operators, and supervisors.
• Analyze vehicle, backing, pedestrian, route, loading, and mobile‑equipment incidents; lead corrective actions and share practical lessons learned.
• Work with transportation and maintenance leaders to address vehicle defects, preventive maintenance, inspections, safe return to service, and equipment‑control risks.
• Develop and maintain practical standards and training for powered industrial trucks, loaders, yard equipment, traffic management, and driver and pedestrian interaction.
• Develop and maintain subject‑matter expertise in the assigned specialty; provide practical guidance, share lessons learned and effective practices, and support other sites or Safety Managers when specialized expertise is needed.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to interpret safety data and convert findings into action.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA requirements and practical safety management in industrial, production, transportation, logistics, or recycling environments.
• Experience managing safety performance through KPIs, audits, observations, investigations, corrective actions, training, and operating reviews.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with site leadership, frontline leaders, hourly employees, maintenance, transportation, and contractors.
• Strong interpersonal, coaching, training, presentation, and written communication skills.
• Highly organized, detail‑oriented, field‑oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced industrial environment.

Experience & Preferred Credentials

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health and safety, engineering, operations, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• At least five years of progressively responsible safety experience in industrial, manufacturing, recycling, transportation, logistics, or similar heavy operations preferred.
• Proven experience reducing workplace injuries and improving safety systems in environments with an hourly workforce.
• Professional certification such as CSP, ASP, OHST, CHST, or progress toward a relevant credential strongly preferred.
• Additional experience with DOT and FMCSA requirements, commercial motor vehicle operations, driver qualification, fleet safety, powered industrial trucks, or heavy mobile equipment strongly preferred.

EEO Statement

Liberty Tire Recycling is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, relationship or association with a protected veteran (spouses or other family members), genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.