Safety Manager - Manufacturing Facility

Pillar Innovations; Grantsville (MD); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Bonuses for working safely

Weekly pay

Job summary

Pillar Innovations, an Industrial Solutions and Service Company with a strong safety culture, seeks a dedicated safety professional in Grantsville, MD. You will own and lead the safety program across fabrication and shop operations, coaching workers, conducting audits, and partnering with production to mitigate hazards.

Required are 5+ years in active safety/compliance, strong OSHA know-how, and a bachelor’s degree in safety-related field.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in an active safety or compliance role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or Management.
• Certifications such as CSP, ASP, OHST preferred.
• Experience leading safety programs and training.

Responsibilities

• Lead weekly safety meetings for facility personnel.
• Conduct monthly safety audits and track findings to closure.
• Coach and train shop personnel to ensure best safety practices.
• Develop practical solutions to hazards with production teams.
• Be the face of the safety program to customers and auditors.

Skills

Safety leadership

Trainer/Instructor

Regulatory compliance

OSH standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or Management

GSP/CSP/ASP/OHST certifications preferred

Tools

OSHA training materials

Safety audits tools

Job description

Pillar Innovations is an Industrial Solutions and Service Company with over 15 years of experience in the Energy, Mining, Industrial Construction, Aggregate, and Renewables Industries. The Corporate Headquarters are located in Grantsville, MD with several offices throughout the country.

Are you looking for a place to expand your skills and grow in a career? Our company promotes continuous learning, diverse work opportunities, and flexibility. We also provide defined career path advancement, full benefits, and a variety of apprenticeship/continuing education programs. We pride ourselves on the versatility of our skillsets and the variety of services that we provide to our customers. We maintain a high level of respect and dignity for our employees, customers, and for the communities that we serve. We have always held a high regard for providing a flexible work-life balance for our employees and we will continue to do so.

We are a diverse and rapidly growing company that is continually on the lookout for emerging markets and opportunities. As an employee, the keys to success are maintaining a positive, can-do attitude and a strong sense of ambition and safety. These key attributes have contributed greatly to the success of our company and to the advancement of our workforce.

Openings for experienced workers and training for entry level positions are always available.

If you want a safety job where you're actually on the floor instead of behind a desk, this is it. You'll own the safety program across our fabrication, assembly, and panel shops in Grantsville, MD — where welders, fitters, machinists, assemblers, panel builders, and painters build the products our customers depend on. Every day you're out among them coaching, training, catching the hazard before it becomes an incident, and building the kind of safety culture where any employee feels empowered to stop work and say something.

You'll lead weekly safety meetings and hands‑on training, run monthly facility audits, and partner directly with production supervision to solve real problems — machine guarding, lockout/tagout, hot work, rigging and lifts, electrical safe work practices, welding fume and coatings exposure — in ways that keep people safe and keep the shop moving. There's real documentation behind all of it audits tracked to closure, OSHA recordkeeping, training and fit test records, permits, incident investigations. But none of it gets written from a desk. The records only mean something because you were out there to see what they're describing. You'll also be the face of our safety program to customers, customer representatives, and third‑party auditors who walk through our doors, which means the work you do here is visible well beyond the facility.

We're looking for someone who knows OSHA General Industry regulations cold as they apply to fabrication, welding, assembly, panel building, and coatings, and who brings a working understanding of environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, and housekeeping best practices. Just as important you have to like people, because influence — not authority — is how this job gets done.

• Mentor and train shop personnel, and encourage safe work through positive relationships, to ensure best safety practices throughout the fabrication facility and the Company
• Lead weekly safety meetings for facility personnel
• Conduct powered industrial truck (forklift) operator training and evaluations, and maintain current operator certification and evaluation records
• Ensure and enforce that employees follow company, customer, and regulatory agency safety policies and procedures through daily shop floor presence, communication, and education, and document and report Company and employee safety practices and deficiencies
• Identify and correct deficiencies in safety practices on the shop floor, and work with the production team to develop practical solutions to hazards and safety concerns
• Perform and document monthly facility safety audits covering work cells, welding and cutting areas, blast and paint areas, material storage and racking, mezzanines, and the yard, and track findings to closure
• Teach or instruct hands‑on safety classes in the shop or classroom

Working Conditions

• Sit, talk, hear, read, and write
• Regularly walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms
• Must be able to kneel, stoop, bend, squat, and climb a ladder
• Lift and/or move up to 30 pounds
• Must be able to work at heights
• Must be able to work in confined spaces
• Work primarily indoors in a fabrication shop environment, with regular time outdoors in the yard and occasional work at customer and job sites in all types of weather
• 5+ years’ experience in an active safety or compliance role, fabrication, manufacturing, or heavy industrial experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or Management or equivalent education, training, and/or experience preferred
• Certificate in GSP (Graduate Safety Practitioner), CSP (Certified Safety Professional), ASP (Associate Safety Professional), or OHST (Occupational Health and Safety Technologist) preferred
• Completion of instructor certifications such as OSHA 501, OSHA 511, powered industrial truck and overhead crane/rigging train‑the‑trainer, First Aid/CPR/AED instructor, MSHA Part 46/48 Trainer Card, etc. preferred
• Valid driver’s license required
• Embraces Safety as a core value

WE ARE NOW EMPLOYEE OWNED

Employees are beneficial owners through an ESOP (Employee Stock Option Plan) that works through a qualified retirement plan.

Perks/Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits
  • Health/Life insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short/Long term disability
  • Paid time off and holidays
• Paid lodging, per diem, and transportation provided for out-of-town work
• Employee focused work environment
  • On‑the‑job mentoring and training
  • Internal job postings
  • Performance and salary reviewsEmployee feedback program
• Safety-first and drug free work environments
  • Bonuses and incentives for working safely
  • Company provided tools and basic safety equipment
  • PPE allowances with no restrictions on vendors
• Weekly pay with premium pay for Sundays and holidays
• Advancement through defined employee career paths
• Financial tools/programs to help employees reach financial goals, manage money, get out of debt, and save for the future
• Scholarship opportunities for dependent children

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

This position requires the completion of a thorough background and pre‑employment drug and alcohol screening. In accordance with The Company’s Drug and Alcohol policy, employees are required to participate in random, post‑accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing as requested.

AAP/EEO Statement

This Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that provides opportunities without regard to any protected classes under applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

ADA Statement

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

USD $70,000.00/Yr.

USD $90,000.00/Yr.