Safety Manager

K2 Electric, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

K2 Electric, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ seeks a Senior Construction Safety Leader to drive safety across field and office. You will own incident investigations, develop policies, and lead training to prevent incidents while maintaining regulatory compliance.

You will manage high-risk activities, implement NFPA 70E, and partner with project teams to embed safety in planning, ensuring a strong safety culture and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in construction safety with leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of OSHA construction standards and NFPA 70E.
• Experience leading policy governance and training programs.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage incident investigations end-to-end with timely RCA and corrective actions.
• Lead safety policy development, SOPs, and change-management for field and office.
• Direct safety training, site visits, and audits to ensure compliance and adoption.
• Develop and implement enterprise-wide high-risk mitigation strategies and controls.
• Coordinate with project teams to embed safety in pre-construction planning.

Skills

Safety Leadership

Construction Safety Knowledge

Program Management

Communication & Influence

Incident & Risk Management

Strategic Decision-Making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Construction Management, or related discipline

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

Ensure the safety of the production and non-production staff by maintaining and enforcing training, and ensuring company protocol is adhered to. Proactively identify and mitigate high-risk exposures before incidents occur, and keep the organization's safety policies and procedures current, field-tested, and consistently applied. Investigate accidents immediately upon notification. Meet with customers to communicate our safety culture to maximize customer satisfaction and safety.

HIGH PAYOFF ACTIVITES

Investigate Accidents Immediately Upon Notification

• Own the incident investigation process end-to-end, ensuring Workers' Compensation reporting, case management, and documentation are completed accurately and on time by the responsible team members.
• Ensure investigation paperwork is submitted within 24 hours of notification; direct trend and root-cause analysis across recordable incidents and report findings at leadership report-outs.
• Personally lead investigations on serious incidents and near misses; ensure all RCAs are unbiased, timely, and drive corrective action to closure.
• Convert every serious incident and near miss into a policy/procedure review trigger - determine whether the associated SOP, JHA, or MOP failed, was unclear, or was not followed, and issue revisions on a defined turnaround. Maintain a corrective action tracking system with a named owner, due date, and risk ranking for every finding; escalated overdue high-risk corrective actions directly to executive leadership until closed.
• Present investigation findings and trends to executive leadership and translate learnings into updated safety strategy and practices.
• Oversee, in conjunction with support from Human Resources, the light-duty transition process, ensuring a consistent, compliant approach across the organization.

Ensure Field and Office Safety

• Own and maintain the organization's written safety policies, ensuring they stay current with regulatory and operational changes.
• Establish a stop-work authority protocol empowering any employee to halt high-risk or energized work on the spot, with a defined, blame-free process for reporting, resolving, and re-authorizing work.
• Direct safety training programs across the organization, including new hire orientation and annual training, ensuring consistent delivery and compliance.
• Oversee field safety performance through a structured cadence of job site visits and audits (weekly for primary markets, biweekly for Tucson), holding field leadership accountable for findings.
• Ensure Service Department site visits occur on a regular cadence and drive follow-through on identified issues.
• Hold weekly meetings with the Safety Team and VP of Human Resources, setting the agenda and direction to keep Team aligned and outcome-focused.

Develop and Oversee Safety Strategy

• Set safety strategy aligned to company objectives and regulatory requirements; lead the annual safety improvement planning process. Own a formal policy and procedure governance lifecycle: schedule mandatory quarterly/annual reviews of all safety policies, procedures, SOPs, JHAs, and MOPs, plus triggered reviews upon regulatory change, incident findings, new equipment, or new work methods; maintain version control and a documented approval sign-off before release.
• Drive field adoption of every policy change, not just publication - build a rollout plan for each revision that includes communication, targeted training, and tracked field acknowledgment, with adoption verified through subsequent audits.
• Lead an enterprise-wide high-risk activity mitigation strategy: use leading and lagging indicators to identify the organization's top hazard exposures (energized electrical work, falls from height, mobile equipment/struck-by, confined space) and direct a hierarchy-of-controls approach that prioritizes elimination and engineering controls ahead of administrative controls and PPE.
• Own a critical control verification program for the highest-consequence risks - ensure controls such as lockout/tagout, fall-protection anchorage, confined-space atmospheric monitoring, and grounding/bonding are verified through direct field observation, not just paperwork compliance.
• Set standards for high-risk and energized work, ensuring enforcement of NFPA 70E and MOP procedures across the organization; personally review the highest-risk activities.
• Partner with Estimating and Project Management to embed high-risk mitigation planning into the pre-construction and bid phase, so safety requirements, staffing, and cost are built into the plan before mobilization rather than retrofitted in the field.
• Own the organization's safety culture strategy - safety leadership training, engagement campaigns, and recognition programs.
• Act as change-management owner for major safety policy and program rollouts - sequencing communication, training, and accountability so changes stick operationally rather than existing only on paper.
• Serve as the executive level voice for safety: report to ELT and project leadership, participate in strategic planning, and ensure contracts reflect safety compliance requirements.

Fleet Safety

• Develop and maintain safety standards for fleet operations and driving, ensuring alignment with company policy and DOT/regulatory requirements.
• Monitor driver telematics data to identify unsafe driving behaviors and safety trends; direct corrective action and coaching as needed.
• Oversee the safe driver program, ensuring consistent enforcement and accountability across the organization.

Maximize Customer Satisfaction and Safety while ensuring regulatory compliance

• Build and maintain relationships with General Contractors and site Superintendents, positioning the company's safety culture as a differentiator at project start and throughout.
• Own organizational compliance with OSHA, NEC, NFPA, and client-specific safety requirements
• Lead preparation for and represent the organization during external audits and inspections.
• Ensure safety documentation systems (SDS, training records, compliance records) are maintained and audit-ready at all times.

OTHER TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Other duties as assigned
• Special projects as required

REQUIRED SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Safety Leadership – Ability to lead, develop, and hold safety personnel and field leadership accountable for safety performance.
• Construction Safety Knowledge – Strong working knowledge of OSHA construction standards, electrical safety, NFPA 70E, and industry best practices.
• Program Management – Ability to develop, implement, evaluate, and continuously improve company safety programs, policies, and procedures.
• Communication & Influence – Ability to communicate effectively with employees, field leadership, executives, clients, and general contractors.
• Incident & Risk Management – Ability to identify hazards, evaluate risk, investigate incidents, and implement effective corrective actions.
• Strategic Decision-Making – Ability to analyze safety performance, prioritize resources, make sound decisions, and support company-wide operational goals.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• 8-10 years of progressively responsible construction safety experience, including at least 3-5 years in a safety leadership or management capacity. Electrical construction experience strongly preferred. Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Construction Management, or related discipline preferred; an equivalent combination of education, professional certifications, and construction safety experience may substitute. OSHA 500/510 and CHST, ASP, or CSP strongly preferred.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORKING CONDITIONS

• Split between office/desk work and active job sites (not primarily sedentary)
• Frequent walking/standing on uneven, unpaved, or under-construction surfaces
• Regular outdoor exposure to Arizona heat, sun, dust, and wind
• Climbing ladders/stairs, bending, kneeling, accessing elevated or confined areas
• Exposure to noise, dust, moving equipment, and energized electrical work, with required PPE
• Driving between the office and job sites, including Tucson
• Occasional lifting (25-40 lbs.)