Safety Manager - Manufacturing Facility

Socket.dev; Grantsville (MD); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Life insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off and holidays

Bonuses for working safely

Job summary

Pillar Innovations in Grantsville, MD seeks an experienced Safety & Compliance Leader to own the safety program across fabrication, assembly, and shop floors. You will coach welders, machinists, painters, and panel builders, driving a culture that empowers workers to stop work for safety concerns.

Join a company committed to safety, quality, and continuous improvement in a dynamic industrial environment. On-site role with hands-on leadership and frequent audits and training responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of active safety or compliance experience in heavy industrial settings.
• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or Management or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and train shop personnel to promote safe work practices.
• Lead weekly safety meetings for facility personnel.
• Conduct forklift operator training and maintain certification records.
• Ensure compliance with safety policies and document practices.
• Identify and correct deficiencies in safety practices with production teams.
• Perform monthly facility safety audits and track findings to closure.
• Teach hands-on safety classes in shop or classroom.

Skills

Safety experience

Safety mindset

Safety certifications

Instructor certifications

Valid driver’s license

Education

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

Job description

About Us

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.

Position Overview

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.

What You'll Do

• 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

What You'll Bring

• 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

How We’ll Support You

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 reviews
  • Employee 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.

Min

USD $70,000.00/Yr.

Max

USD $90,000.00/Yr.