Senior Safety Engineer

Required

• We're looking for a Senior Safety Engineer to own environmental, health, and safety for a factory that builds home modules, and for the field operations that install them on site. Our production mixes automated framing equipment, robotic workcells, CNC processing, overhead lifting, and skilled hand trades working on and around 40-foot modules, with both in-factory and field construction operations.
• Our EHS program is young. Station-level hazard assessments, PPE requirements, an emergency action plan, and a training framework are in place, and you'll take over from the teammate who built them. Your job is to foster a company-wide safety culture by turning that foundation into a durable EHS management system that keeps pace with our production ramp. That means taking high-level regulations and “operationalizing” them into standards our employees understand and follow.
• This is a hands-on, on-site role for someone who has built a program from the ground up, not inherited a mature one; you'll spend much of your time on the floor, and work closely with production, facilities, and engineering leadership, with the expectation to run the program on modern software tools, not binders.
• You don't need to have held an EHS title. If you've built and run compliance programs under heavy external oversight, such as naval nuclear propulsion, aviation maintenance, nuclear power, or pharma and medical device quality, and you know how to operationalize regulations into standards people actually follow, we want to hear from you.
• Build a safety culture people buy into: clear standards, consistent enforcement, and practical solutions developed with the people doing the work.
• Operationalize regulatory requirements. Turn OSHA general industry, construction, and environmental standards into clear, practical processes and expectations for every workstation and field task: hazard assessments, work instructions, visual controls, and training that builders can understand and follow without a binder.
• Own the EHS program and compliance, including recordkeeping, written programs, inspections, and regulatory filings.
• Maintain hazard assessment and PPE programs for the entire facility, ensuring safe operations grounded in actual requirements.
• Define and own environmental compliance, including hazardous materials and waste: chemical inventory and SDS management, generator status, waste streams, universal waste, and flammable storage. Partner with facilities to set clear ownership of permits and environmental obligations.
• Lead safety for high-risk work: working at heights on modules, overhead lifting and rigging, powered industrial trucks, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and robotic and automated cell safety.
• Extend the program to field operations at project sites, including coordination with general contractors and other employers on shared sites.
• Own safety training and certification. Maintain the training matrix, run a train-the-trainer model with internal subject matter experts, and track completion so no one performs a task they aren't qualified for.