Director of Safety & Health

What Success Looks Like
Safety is treated as an operating value and leadership responsibility across every MEPX business unit.
Employees and leaders proactively identify risk, stop unsafe work, learn from events, and close corrective actions.
Safety programs are practical, consistently applied, measurable, and integrated into planning and execution.
·OSHA, IOSHA, environmental, customer, insurance, and reporting obligations are managed accurately and promptly.
Incident frequency, severity, vehicle loss, and preventable risk trend downward through sustained operational improvement.
The Safety & Health team is visible, responsive, technically competent, and viewed as a trusted business partner.
Executive leadership receives timely, accurate reporting on material events, trends, exposures, and corrective priorities.
Primary Responsibilities
Enterprise Safety Leadership & Culture
Develop and lead the enterprise safety and health strategy in alignment with company objectives, Core Values, and operating priorities.
Build a culture of personal accountability, operational ownership, learning, employee engagement, and continuous improvement.
Advise the President and executive leadership on significant safety, health, fleet, regulatory, insurance, and operational risks.
Partner with division and department leaders to integrate safety into estimating, planning, staffing, scheduling, field execution, manufacturing, service, and closeout.
Maintain a strong field presence and routinely engage employees, supervisors, project teams, customers, and leadership.
Promote Human and Organizational Performance principles and learning-focused responses while maintaining clear accountability for choices and behaviors.
Safety Management Systems & Risk Control
Own the development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of company safety policies, standards, procedures, and management systems.
Establish minimum requirements for pre-task planning, hazard analysis, high-risk work, permitting, inspections, observations, audits, and corrective-action management.
Ensure programs address the hazards associated with HVAC, plumbing, electrical, energy management, service, construction, manufacturing, cleanroom, radiopharma, fleet, and small general construction operations.
Lead risk assessments for complex or high-hazard work and ensure practical controls are established before work proceeds.
Coordinate safety requirements with customers, general contractors, trade partners, insurers, legal counsel, and regulatory agencies as appropriate.
Evaluate emerging risks, regulatory changes, customer requirements, and industry practices; recommend timely changes to company standards.
Incident Management, Regulatory Compliance & Reporting
Ensure prompt reporting, triage, investigation, documentation, and follow-through for injuries, illnesses, vehicle incidents, property damage, environmental events, significant near misses, and other serious occurrences.
Lead or oversee significant investigations using appropriate root-cause and Human Performance methods; focus corrective actions on sustainable risk reduction.
Immediately advise executive leadership of potentially reportable, high-severity, high-potential, or legally sensitive events.
Ensure required OSHA and IOSHA notifications, logs, postings, retention, electronic submissions, and annual reporting are completed accurately and on time.
Serve as the company’s primary safety representative during regulatory inspections, citations, informal conferences, hearings, and related corrective activities in coordination with leadership and counsel.
Maintain defensible records and provide accurate information for insurance, workers’ compensation, claims, legal matters, and customer inquiries.
Track corrective actions to verified closure and communicate lessons learned across affected operations.
Training, Competency & Workforce Development
Establish an enterprise safety training and competency strategy based on job responsibilities, exposure, regulatory requirements, and company standards.
Ensure effective orientation, toolbox talks, supervisor development, high-risk-work training, stand-downs, refresher training, and continuing education.
Develop operational leaders’ ability to recognize hazards, coach employees, conduct planning, investigate events, and manage corrective actions.
Evaluate training quality, participation, comprehension, field application, and sustained competency.
Maintain reliable training records and systems that support compliance, customer requirements, qualification verification, and workforce planning.
Performance, Analytics & Continuous Improvement
Establish leading and lagging performance measures, dashboards, review cadences, and clear ownership for improvement priorities.
Analyze incidents, observations, audits, claims, fleet events, training, corrective actions, and operational trends to identify systemic risk.
Provide concise monthly and quarterly reporting to leadership, including material risks, decisions needed, actions, owners, and due dates.
Benchmark company performance and practices against relevant construction, service, manufacturing, and specialty-trade standards.
Use technology and standardized workflows to improve reporting quality, visibility, accountability, and timely follow-through.
Partner with Operations, Human Resources, People & Culture, Finance, Fleet, Quality, Legal, and Information Technology on cross-functional improvement initiatives.
Workers’ Compensation, Insurance & Fleet Risk
Provide leadership oversight for workers’ compensation and return-to-work practices in partnership with Human Resources, Finance, operations, insurers, and medical providers.
Support claim reviews, loss-control activities, insurance renewals, and implementation of carrier recommendations.
Oversee the safety aspects of driver qualification, vehicle incident investigation, complaint documentation, coaching, and fleet-risk improvement.
Identify loss trends and recommend operational, training, equipment, policy, or accountability measures that reduce frequency and severity.
Leadership & Team Accountability
Lead, organize, coach, and develop the Safety & Health team with clear roles, priorities, workloads, goals, and performance expectations.
Conduct regular team and individual meetings; provide timely direction, feedback, recognition, and corrective guidance.
Build appropriate field coverage, technical depth, succession, cross-training, and backup capability.
Allocate resources based on risk, business needs, project activity, and emerging priorities.
Work collaboratively with operating leaders while preserving the independence and judgment required to escalate material risk.
Model professionalism, integrity, respect, responsiveness, accountability, and the MEPX Core Values.
Decision Rights & Authority
Stop or suspend work when an imminent danger, serious uncontrolled hazard, or material violation exists.
Escalate significant safety, health, regulatory, environmental, fleet, or insurance risk directly to the President and appropriate executive leaders.
Establish and administer approved enterprise safety standards, systems, training requirements, reporting practices, and audit processes.