Safety Director, Maryville, TN

EMCOR Group; Cleveland (TN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Cherokee Millwright, Inc. is seeking a Safety Manager to provide technical safety and health support across production and corporate personnel, developing programs and coordinating training to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.

The role involves auditing practices, maintaining safety databases, and partnering with engineering, HR, legal, operations, and R&D to implement engineering controls and safe work practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in safety science, engineering or equivalent.
• At least five years of experience in a safety manager position or higher.
• Strong ability to develop safety programs, coordinate training and ensure regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical safety and health support to production and corporate personnel.
• Develop and coordinate safety training programs and annual safety goals.
• Monitor regulatory changes and ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
• Audit practices and records to ensure adherence to company programs and safety regulations.
• Support engineering and operations with safety controls and PPE selection.

Skills

Safety leadership

Regulatory compliance

Hazard analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in safety science or engineering

Tools

ISN

Avetta

Job description

About Us

Our capabilities cover a full suite of millwrighting services, including installing, setting, aligning, and leveling machinery and equipment, as well as dismantling, refurbishing, reassembling, and moving. Additionally, our expertise covers close tolerance and precision alignment, as well as fabrication, concrete construction, and industrial HVAC solutions.

Job Summary

The safety manager provides technical safety and health support to production and corporate personnel. Develops safety and health programs and objectives and coordinates safety training programs. Monitors safety and health regulations and provides technical support to plant and personnel to ensure compliance with federal and state safety and health regulations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Works closely with staff in engineering, human resources, legal, operations, and research and development.
2. Provides technical safety and health support and information to production and corporate personnel.
3. Prepares written safety and health programs and policies.
4. Complies and updates safety databases, including ISN and Avetta, and all intracompany databases.
5. Identifies company safety training needs and develops and coordinates safety training programs.
6. Organizes, develops, and creates agenda for companywide annual training day.
7. Develops annual company safety and health goals.
8. Participates in new product/process reviews, including process hazard analyses, operator training, etc.
9. Supports corporate/plant engineering to implement engineering controls to minimize safety and occupational health hazards.
10. Supports plant personnel in selection of appropriate personal protective equipment.
11. Maintains corporate safety library (e.g., videos, regulations, reference manuals).
12. Promotes safety and health awareness through internal company memoranda, newsletters and specific trainingprograms.
13. Assists as necessary in implementation of a hazard communication program and preparation of reports.
14. Reviews process-operating procedures/records and provides input for safety and health considerations.
15. Understands federal and state occupational safety and health regulations and monitors regulatory changes as they occur.
16. Provides technical support to corporate and plant personnel to ensure compliance with applicable occupational safety and health regulations.
17. Advices manufacturing plants and corporate staff of regulatory changes with which the plants must comply. Sufficient advance notice should be provided so that compliance on the effective date of new regulations is ensured.
18. Audits practices and records of manufacturing plants to ensure compliance with company programs and federal/state occupational safety and health regulations.
19. Monitors lost-time injuries/illnesses and worker’s compensation claims.
20. Reviews safety inspection reports and follows up as necessary.
21. Reviews injury/illness and noninjury incident investigation reports and follows up as necessary.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position has direct supervisory responsibilities and management of the safety program includes directing safety related activities. Also serves as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department.

Qualifications

#cherokee

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

1. Bachelor’s degree in a safety science, engineering or equivalent; and
2. At least five years of previous experience in safety manager position or higher.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.,

Benefits

• We offer our employees a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package and are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As a leading provider of mechanical and electrical construction, facilities services, and energy infrastructure, we offer employees a competitive salary and benefits package and we are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

Affirmative Action Policy

Please review ourAffirmative Action Policy (https://emcorgroup.icims.com/icims2/servlet/icims2?module=AppInert&action=download&id=128804&hashed=-92978058) .

Job Locations US-TN-Maryville | US-TN-Cleveland | US-TN-Morristown

ID 2026-53628

Company Cherokee Millwright, Inc.

Category Safety

Position Type Full-Time

Location Type Onsite

Posted Date 1 week ago (10/19/2026 4:20 PM)