National Safety Director

Description:

National Safety Director

Southern Home Services is a dynamic, fast-growing home services company that acquires, owns and operates businesses around the United States. We are currently in Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas and Virginia and are looking to expand within the next several months. There is a lot of growth and opportunity so there is truly no ceiling!

We are seeking a National Safety Director to foster a best-in-class safety culture. The chosen candidate will recommend appropriate revisions to new or existing policies and procedures to mitigate risk and propose methods to minimize risk through system changes. By providing guidance, coaching, and mentorship to employees at all levels within our centers, the Safety Manager shall be instrumental in the improvement of Southern Home Services’ safety performance and culture.

Position Summary

The Director of Safety is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide safety strategy across a large, geographically dispersed, multi-state field services organization. This position will develop, implement, and continuously improve programs that reduce workplace injuries, prevent vehicle accidents, strengthen compliance, and create a proactive safety culture across all locations.

Supporting a fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles and a distributed workforce of field technicians, operations leaders, and support teams, the Director of Safety will serve as the organization's subject matter expert for occupational safety, fleet safety, risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and behavioral safety practices.

This role requires a hands-on operational leader who can influence at all levels of organization from frontline technicians to senior leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Safety Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and execute a comprehensive safety strategy aligned with company objectives, operational priorities, and growth initiatives.
• Build a safety culture focused on prevention, personal accountability, continuous improvement, and employee engagement.
• Partner with senior leadership, regional operations leaders, and General Managers to embed safety into daily operations.
• Establish consistent safety standards, processes, training, reporting, and expectations across all locations.
• Serve as the primary safety advisor to senior leadership and provide regular updates on safety performance, trends, risks, and improvement initiatives.

Fleet Safety & Risk Management

• Lead policies and procedures for fleet safety for a 1,000+ vehicle fleet
• Develop programs to reduce motor vehicle accidents, distracted driving, speeding, aggressive driving behaviors, and preventable incidents.
• Own fleet safety technology initiatives, including telematics, dash cameras, driver scoring, coaching programs, and corrective action processes.
• Partner with operations leaders to ensure consistent accountability for unsafe driving behaviors.

Field Safety Operations

• Ensure compliance with applicable OSHA, DOT, EPA, and state/local safety requirements.
• Establish process and procedures for safety audits.
• Develop standards related to PPE, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, ladder safety, heat illness prevention, hazard communication, defensive driving, and jobsite safety practices

Incident Management & Workers' Compensation

• Lead and develop policies for incident reporting, investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action processes.
• Develop programs focused on reducing recordable injuries, lost time claims, vehicle accidents, severity rates, and Workers' compensation costs
• Partner with insurance providers, brokers, and claims administrators to manage risk.
• Identify trends and create proactive prevention strategies.

Training & Employee Engagement

• Build scalable safety training programs for new hires and exiting employee base.
• Develop safety communication campaigns that reinforce awareness and accountability.
• Create programs that encourage employee participation, hazard identification, and proactive reporting.
• Ensure safety expectations are embedded into onboarding and leadership development.

Compliance & Reporting

• Maintain OSHA compliance programs, reporting, and recordkeeping.
• Develop safety dashboards and KPIs to measure organizational performance.
• Provide regular reporting on Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), Lost Time Incident Rate, Driver Safety Scores, and Safety Training Completion.
• Prepare safety updates for executive leadership and board-level reporting.

Qualifications

Required

• 7+ years of progressive safety leadership experience.
• Experience supporting a large multi-location, geographically dispersed workforce.
• Background managing fleet safety programs
• Demonstrated success reducing accidents, injuries, and claims.
• Knowledge of OSHA regulations and safety management systems.
• Experience using data analytics to identify trends and drive improvement.
• Strong communication, training, influencing, and leadership skills.

Preferred

• Experience in home services, construction, utilities, logistics, transportation, facilities, or field services industries.
• Experience managing safety programs for 500+ vehicles.
• Experience with telematics, dash cameras, and fleet management technology.
• Professional certifications such as:
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
• Associate Safety Professional (ASP)
• Certified Safety Manager (CSM)
• OSHA 30

The physical requirements of this job include:

• Perform work while sitting and/or standing at an individual workstation or office
• Communicate verbally via phone or other communication device.
• Ability to stand, walk and sit; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone
• Use hands to type, handle or feel objects or controls; reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally stoop, kneel, bend, climb stairs, crouch, and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Work is performed in office, at various business locations, and in the field.

Travel Requirements

Regular travel required, including overnight travel (approximately 40–50%) to conduct field visits, support operations, lead safety initiatives, and build relationships across company locations.

Southern Home Services will make reasonable accommodation to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

The Benefits

We offer a rewarding career path with great benefits, flexible schedules, professional and on-the-job training and growth plans. Come be a part of the team our customers call the finest in the industry.

• Reliable, Year-Round Work
• Weekly Paychecks
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Company Matched 401k

Southern Home Services is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. The policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.

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