Safety Manager

Complete Fence is a family and veteran-owned fencing contractor founded in 1976, based in Batavia, IL servicing nation-wide customers. We install fences for commercial, and industrial customers, with projects across the country, including data centers, solar facilities, and high-security sites. For 50 years we have built our reputation on quality craftsmanship and a people-first approach.

Our crews are out on job sites every day working around heavy equipment, vehicles, and changing conditions, and how safely they get through each day depends a great deal on the standards, training, and culture that this role puts in place. As the company grows, our need for a dedicated role to further build out and implement our Safety Program has grown too, this is where you come in!

About the role

Safety on a job site is critical, as is the culture that drives it, and that is exactly what you would be responsible for. You would own the safety function from end to end, writing the program, setting the standards, and building the systems that keep every crew, every job site, and every driver working safely and in line with OSHA and customer requirements, while the Field Safety Specialists work under your guidance to put those standards into practice in the field every day.

This role is for someone who wants to build a program from the ground up rather than just maintain one that already exists, and who is just as comfortable writing policy as they are walking a job site to see whether the program they built is living and breathing.

Job Description

What you'll actually be doing

You will write and maintain the company's safety policies, procedures, and training programs, and you will set the standards that Superintendents, crews, and the Field Safety Specialist are expected to work to on every job. As the company grows, you will be expected to grow the program along with it.

You will own the full certification and compliance calendar, covering OSHA, DOT, and any additional requirements individual customers bring, and you will keep the company's documentation in a state where it could stand up to an audit on any given day. Working alongside Fleet and HR, you will partner with internal departments to keep safety "part of what we do around here".

When something does go wrong, you will own the incident from the first report through investigation, root cause analysis, corrective action, and closeout, and you will report findings and trends to leadership and to the company's insurers in a way that turns each incident into a lesson the whole organization learns from.

You will track the leading and lagging indicators that tell the real story of how safe the company is, including near misses, recordables, and EMR, and you will establish and chair the Safety Committee, using it as the ear to the ground for continuous improvement. You may also engage with customers and general contractors on safety expectations and performance, and you will lead, coach, and hold accountable the Field Safety Specialist and any additional safety staff who join the team as it grows.

What success looks like

A Safety Manager who is doing this job well is the reason incidents keep trending down year over year, the reason an audit never turns up a surprise, and the reason crews follow the standards because they believe in them rather than because someone is standing over their shoulder.

What you bring

• 5 or more years leading safety programs in decentralized construction or field operations, including experience building or substantially improving a program rather than only administering one
• OSHA 500 or 510 trainer certification
• Demonstrated experience leading incident investigations and root cause analysis
• A valid driver's license
• Excellent training and communication skills
• Ideally we are looking for someone local to the Batavia area who is willing to travel out of state to sites when required.

EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity)/AAP (Affirmative Action Plan) Statement:

Complete Fence provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. The company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants and employees are treated fairly during the application process and post-hiring employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type is not tolerated.