Vice President, Safety Garden Grove, CA
Company: Southland Industries Inc.
Location: Garden Grove
Posted on: October 19, 2024
Job Description:
POSITION SUMMARY
As the Vice President of Safety, s/he will spearhead the
organization's safety initiatives, setting the gold standard for
safety culture, policies, and procedures. Reporting directly to the
executive leadership team, s/he will be entrusted with crafting and
executing strategies that ensure the well-being of employees across
all operational fronts, cementing the company's position as an
industry leader in safety excellence. This leader will be
responsible for building and maintaining a culture of safety. S/he
will embody safety as a critical driver for the business.
This position can be based out of Washington DC area (Dulles, VA),
Northern California (Union City), Southern California (Garden
Grove), Northwest (Portland, OR), or Texas (Dallas). This role will
require a willingness to travel extensively (-60%) to project sites
nationwide for both over-night and in-day trips for project
kickoffs, incident reports and construction.
What you'll do:
Strategic and Cultural Leadership
- Define and champion the company's safety vision, objectives,
and strategies to foster a culture of safety excellence.
- Lead safety business planning efforts, aligning safety
initiatives with corporate goals and objectives.
- Drive the development and implementation of company-wide safety
and health strategies, ensuring compliance with regulatory
standards.
- Enforce client safety standards and executive expectations,
serving as the primary liaison with regulatory bodies on safety
matters.
- Flexible Leadership style that allows you to vector effectively
between diverse client and audience types, ranging from skilled
apprentices to top-line executive presence.
- Build a National Peer Group with other Safety Leading
like-minded professionals to constantly push the envelope driving
stronger safety culture and initiatives with like progressive
companies and owners.
- Foster and enable a culture of care and safety first where all
employees, regardless of level in the organization, are empowered
to mitigate safety issues.
Talent Management and Development
- Assist in having each Division Safety Manager to build a local
community of practice within the Division and external with
likeminded companies and clients so we are seen as an industry
thought leader.
- Drive accountability for safety managers and administrators to
accomplish safety program goals, compliance, and
initiatives.
- Foster a collaborative and supportive work environment,
empowering direct reports to drive safety initiatives and achieve
organizational goals.
- Conduct regular performance evaluations and provide
constructive feedback to enhance individual and team
effectiveness.
- Partner with division leadership to develop succession plans
and talent pipelines to ensure continuity and sustainability in
safety leadership roles.
- Mentor and train safety personnel, fostering a culture of
continuous learning and development within the safety
department.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to develop robust recruiting
programs to ensure adequate talent pipeline.
Program Management
- Oversee all aspects of safety program management across
multiple fabrication/assembly plants, construction projects sites
including out-of-market locations, ensuring alignment with
organizational objectives.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to
measure safety performance, implementing continuous improvement
initiatives to mitigate hazards.
- Provide technical expertise on safety policies and programs,
conducting training sessions and workshops to enhance safety
awareness.
- Facilitate sharing of safety resources across the
organization.
- Stay abreast of regulatory changes and industry best practices,
collaborating with stakeholders to implement effective safety
measures.
Incident Management
- Lead incident management efforts, ensuring timely and thorough
investigations, root cause analyses, regulatory reporting, and
effective sharing of lessons learned for future
prevention.
- Strong Investigative Skills to get at the root cause of issues
to see where we can improve.
- Ability to work under pressure and not be reactive.
- Researcher/teacher - always looking for tools and tactics that
can improve our approaches and willingness to partner with our
Operations, Engineering, field and fabrication folks, to design
safer ways to perform our work - which requires the ability to
communicate effectively with helpers to our Leadership. Collaborate
with human resources, risk management and insurance teams to
mitigate safety-related risks and liabilities effectively.
- Lead workers' compensation and insurance efforts, ensuring
proper claims management and proactive risk mitigation.
- Represent the company in litigation proceedings related to
safety incidents, cultivating strong partnerships with corporate
legal and human resources teams.
What you'll need to be successful:
Setting Strategy
- The ability to create and articulate an inspiring vision for
the organization, not only for the areas they are directly
responsible for, but the enterprise as a whole.
- The inclination to seek and analyze data from a variety of
sources to support decisions and to align others with the
organization's overall strategy.
- An entrepreneurial and creative approach to developing new,
innovative ideas that will stretch the organization and push the
boundaries within the industry.
- The ability to effectively balance the desire/need for broad
change with an understanding of how much change the organization is
capable of handling, to create realistic goals and implementation
plans that are achievable and successful.
Executing for Results
- The ability to set clear and challenging goals while committing
the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable
in driving results.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to
adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations.
- A risk-taker who seeks data and input from others to foresee
possible threats or unintended circumstances from decisions;
someone who takes smart risks.
- A leader who is viewed by others as having a high degree of
integrity and forethought in their approach to making decisions;
the ability to act in a transparent and consistent manner while
always taking into account what is best for the organization.
Leading Teams
- The ability to attract and recruit top talent, motivate the
team, delegate effectively, celebrate diversity within the team,
and manage performance; widely viewed as a strong developer of
others.
- The ability to persevere in the face of challenges, and exhibit
a steadfast resolve and relentless commitment to higher standards,
which commands respect from followers.
- A leader who is self-reflective and aware of their own
limitations; leads by example and drives the organization's
performance with an attitude of continuous improvement by being
open to feedback and self-improvement.
- Relationships and Influence
- Naturally connects and builds strong relationships with others,
demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to
communicate clearly and persuasively.
- An ability to inspire trust and followership in others through
compelling influence, powerful charisma, passion in their beliefs,
and active drive.
- Encourages others to share the spotlight and visibly celebrates
and supports the success of the team.
- Creates a sense of purpose/meaning for the team that generates
followership beyond their own personality and engages others to the
greater purpose for the organization as a whole.
Driving Sustainability
- Firmly believes that both sustainability and profit are in the
organization's best long-term interest.
- Integrates economic, societal, and environmental factors into a
purpose-driven strategy, turning sustainability into a competitive
advantage.
- Understands and incorporates viewpoints from all key
stakeholders to drive decision making and share the
benefits.
- Delivers breakthrough innovations and business models that
create value for all stakeholders, continually challenging
traditional approaches.
- Sets audacious business and sustainability goals, driving
concerted action and investments, and stays the course in the face
of setbacks or push-back from short-term oriented stakeholders.
What you bring to the table:
The successful candidate will have progressive experience in
managing safety programs on large-scale construction or other
similar job sites. S/he will have extensive knowledge of
construction related OSHA, MSHA, federal, state and local
regulatory standards, coupled with strong communication skills to
convey safety policies effectively. This leader will have proven
leadership experience in managing internal staff and third-party
consultants, with a track record of driving organizational change
and achieving results. S/he will have experience working for a
union contractor and managing safety programs that are
collaborative with Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs). S/he
will be able to collaborate with clients, trade partners, and field
leadership. The successful candidate will have strong attention to
detail, organizational skills and ability to work independently in
a fast paced environment.
YOU Matter
PEOPLE FIRST: BUILDING TALENT BY DESIGN
At Southland we aspire to build a workforce that's as diverse as
the people who occupy the buildings we design, build and maintain.
Building talent by design is our intentional approach to creating a
truly safe, collaborative, and inclusive work environment that
fosters growth, empowers professional achievement, and where people
are treated with respect at all levels.
If you're someone with a true passion for our industry, a life-long
learner, with high accountability and a drive for results we're
looking for you! At Southland, we hire problem solvers that are
focused on providing customer value through continuous improvement
and will take ownership to create the best experiences that will
have an impact wider than their own job. We thrive on creating a
strong company and culture where you'll feel engaged, challenged,
and valued.
If you're ready for the next big step in your career and want a
career full of fun and excitement and to be a part of a fast-paced
growing company, then JOIN our team and become a part of an
organization that values PEOPLE, SAFETY, INNOVATION, COLLABORATION,
INTEGRITY, ACCOUNTABILITY & SUSTAINABILITY.
Benefits:
As an employee-owned company, we offer a comprehensive benefits
package that includes excellent benefits for you and your
family:
- 401(k) Plan with 50% Company Match (no cap) and immediate 100%
vesting
- Annual incentive program based upon performance, profitability,
and achievement
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance - 100% Paid for
Employee
- Term Life, AD&D Insurance, and Voluntary Life
Insurance
- Disability Income Protection Insurance
- Pre-tax Flexible Spending Plans (Health and Dependent
Care)
- Holidays/Vacation/Personal Time/Life Events Leave
- Numerous training opportunities and company paid membership for
professional associations and licenses
For more information on Southland Industries, please visit our
website: or on or .
To hear what our employees are saying about working at Southland
Industries, check out our Career Video - .
Southland Industries and all its subsidiaries are an Equal
Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of
any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment
opportunity for all employees and to providing our employees with a
safe work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All
employment decisions at Southland Industries are based on business
needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without
regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, sex, national
origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital
status, sexual orientation, family care or medical leave status,
veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or
regulations in the locations where we operate. Southland Industries
will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of
these characteristics.
**All employment offers are contingent upon successful drug tests,
background checks and professional reference checks.**
**We are not able to offer sponsorship of employment at this
time**
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