Position Summary:Liberty Tire Recycling is seeking a hands-on Safety Manager to partner with leadership at an assigned site to reduce injuries, strengthen compliance, and improve safety performance. This role combines field presence, data-driven decision-making, coaching, training, incident prevention, and practical risk reduction. The Safety Manager will serve as the site's safety advisor and develop subject-matter expertise "SME" in an assigned specialty while operating leaders retain accountability for safe daily execution.
Core Duties & Responsibilities- Lead site injury-reduction strategies with operating leadership, with a primary focus on the safety of hourly employees.
- Establish, monitor, and improve leading and lagging safety indicators, including TRIR, DART, near misses, audits, observations, training completion, and corrective-action closure.
- Analyze incident, audit, observation, ergonomic, and operating data to identify trends, prioritize risk, and convert findings into practical actions.
- Lead incident and near-miss investigations, confirm root causes and action ownership, and verify that corrective actions are sustainable and effective.
- Maintain accurate and timely incident records, internal notifications, investigation documentation, and required regulatory information; escalate significant issues as appropriate.
- Conduct routine audits and field observations to verify compliance with OSHA requirements, company standards, and site-specific controls.
- Assess equipment, material-handling, ergonomic, task, and work-area risks; recommend effective engineering, administrative, and work-practice controls.
- Partner with site leaders, supervisors, maintenance, transportation, and employees to integrate safe work methods and risk controls into daily plans and standard work.
- Deliver targeted safety training and coach leaders and employees on hazard recognition, intervention, qualification expectations, and accountability.
- Report safety performance, unresolved risks, corrective-action status, and recommended priorities through established operating reviews.
- Exercise stop-work authority when imminent danger, serious uncontrolled exposure, or a material safety violation exists; verify effective controls before work resumes.
- Build site safety capability through visible field support, cross-training, repeatable tools, lessons learned, and continuous improvement that supports safety, quality, reliability, service, and productivity.
Additional Responsibilities- Serve as the site SME for process and manufacturing risk, fire prevention, combustible-material hazards, machine safety, hazardous-energy control, and emergency preparedness.
- Lead or support risk assessments for new or modified equipment, processes, materials, layouts, tooling, startups, shutdowns, and non-routine work.
- Partner with operations and maintenance to strengthen machine guarding, lockout/tagout, hot work, contractor controls, safe return to service, and risk management during outages and breakdowns.
- Evaluate fire prevention and protection needs involving ignition sources, housekeeping, combustible accumulations, storage, detection, suppression, and emergency response readiness.
- Assess conveyor, shredder, grinder, material-handling, struck-by, caught-in or between, ergonomic, and workflow risks; prioritize engineering controls and verify effectiveness.
- Use incidents, audits, downtime, maintenance, and operating trends to identify high-risk conditions and sustain practical manufacturing-risk improvements.
- Develop and maintain subject-matter expertise in the assigned specialty; provide practical guidance, share lessons learned and effective practices, and support other sites or Safety Managers when specialized expertise is needed.
Qualifications- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret safety data and convert findings into action.
- Strong working knowledge of OSHA requirements and practical safety management in industrial, production, transportation, logistics, or recycling environments.
- Experience managing safety performance through KPIs, audits, observations, investigations, corrective actions, training, and operating reviews.
- Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with site leadership, frontline leaders, hourly employees, maintenance, transportation, and contractors.
- Strong interpersonal, coaching, training, presentation, and written communication skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, field-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced industrial environment.
Experience & Preferred Credentials- Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health and safety, engineering, operations, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
- At least five years of progressively responsible safety experience in industrial, manufacturing, recycling, transportation, logistics, or similar heavy operations preferred.
- Proven experience reducing workplace injuries and improving safety systems in environments with an hourly workforce.
- Professional certification such as CSP, ASP, OHST, CHST, or progress toward a relevant credential strongly preferred.
- Additional experience with machine safeguarding, lockout/tagout, hot work, fire prevention or protection, emergency response, process risk assessment, or high-hazard manufacturing strongly preferred.
