Safety Director
Mission Critical Electrical Construction
United States
Vertex Integration Partners is representing a leading national electrical contractor with a strong presence in mission critical construction, including hyperscale data centers, healthcare facilities, and large scale critical infrastructure projects. This organization is known for delivering complex electrical scopes on fast track, high profile builds across the United States.
We are seeking a Senior Safety Manager to lead safety strategy and execution across major projects and regional operations. This role will drive a proactive safety culture in high intensity environments where schedule, complexity, and manpower scale demand elite leadership.
Position Overview
The Senior Safety Manager will oversee safety performance across multiple large scale electrical construction projects. This individual will partner closely with operations leadership, project executives, and field teams to ensure best in class safety execution, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across all jobsites.
This is a high impact leadership role within a rapidly growing, technically sophisticated contractor.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and execute company wide safety strategy across mission critical electrical projects
- Oversee project level safety managers and field safety professionals
- Develop and enforce safety policies, procedures, and training programs
- Drive incident prevention through proactive risk identification and mitigation
- Ensure compliance with OSHA and all federal, state, and local regulations
- Conduct jobsite audits, executive safety reviews, and leadership engagement sessions
- Partner with project teams during preconstruction to identify high risk activities and implement mitigation plans
- Analyze safety metrics including TRIR, EMR, and near miss reporting to drive continuous improvement
- Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and zero incident mindset
Qualifications
- 7 plus years of construction safety experience with significant exposure to electrical construction
- Experience supporting large scale commercial or mission critical projects such as data centers, healthcare facilities, semiconductor, or critical infrastructure
- Proven leadership managing safety teams across multiple concurrent projects
- Strong knowledge of OSHA regulations and construction safety standards
- Ability to operate in fast paced, high manpower environments exceeding several hundred craft workers
- Demonstrated success reducing incident rates and building safety culture
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence executive leadership and field teams alike
- Preferred
- Experience on hyperscale data center or other mission critical projects
- CHST, CSP, or equivalent safety certifications
- Experience working with employee owned or large national contractors
Why This Opportunity
- Leadership role within a nationally recognized electrical contractor
- Exposure to complex, high profile mission critical projects
- Opportunity to influence safety culture at scale
- Competitive compensation, strong benefits, and long term growth potential
If you are a safety leader who thrives in technically demanding environments and wants to drive impact across large scale electrical construction operations, we would welcome a confidential conversation.
