Safety & Training Director
Location: DFW
Our mission is to deliver dependable and safe solutions that place the best interest of our employees, customers, and the traveling public at the forefront. As one of the oldest and largest family-owned traffic control providers in Texas, we pair "big-company" capabilities with an agile, flexible model that prioritizes personal accountability and operational responsiveness.
This is a chance to own and build DLB's safety and field training function. You'll keep our people safe, keep us compliant, and make sure training actually sticks in the field — not just in a classroom. You'll lead a safety supervisor today, with room to grow the team as we grow. You'll set the org structure — all safety and training personnel report up to you, directly or indirectly.
This is a field job with leadership responsibility, not a desk job. The right person can walk a job site, speak the traffic control language, and earn the respect of the crews. That credibility is what makes everything else work.
The essential functions of this role include:
- All of our safety programs — OSHA compliance, incident reporting, investigations, and corrective actions
- Getting to root cause on incidents and putting fixes in place that prevent the next one
- Training for new hires, equipment operators, and traffic control personnel — including the LMS content that keeps it consistent across every crew
- Leading the safety supervisor (your direct report), who handles day-to-day safety reinforcement, field monitoring, structured training, and new-hire onboarding
- Setting how training gets delivered in the field — today that's designated field hands who train the crews; you'll build the structure and keep it consistent
- Job site audits and safety observations across active projects
- Traffic control plan (TCP) training and certification
- Documenting all safety and training policies and procedures, and submitting them to management for approval
- Holding and teaching the TxDOT-required certifications so we can train and certify our people in-house
- Regular safety and risk reviews — pulling together the data (telematics, incident reports, JSA and project audits, OSHA logs) and bringing recommendations to leadership
- Tracking safety metrics and reporting to leadership
- The drug & alcohol program, workers' comp interface, and return-to-work
- Working relationships with TxDOT, municipalities, and permitting and regulatory contacts
- Meetings with customers, clients, and management
- General office and reporting duties as needed
- 5+ years in field safety, with at least 2 leading people
- The ability to speak traffic control fluently and earn respect on a job site — this is what makes the training land
- Hands-on traffic control experience, or a highway/road construction or utility construction background you can carry into this role
- ATSSA Flagger/Supervisor certification or equivalent; TCP design experience a plus
- OSHA 30 (we'll support you toward OSHA 500 or CSP)
- Comfort with data — you can pull incident and telematics data, spot the trends, and turn them into training
- Working knowledge of Texas regs (TMUTCD, TxDOT standards), or the ability to get up to speed fast
Certifications and experience get you in the door. These are the traits that make someone succeed here:
- A people person — builds trust fast with crews, foremen, and leadership, and communicates in a way that gets bought into
- Genuinely passionate about safety — treats it as the job, not a box to check, and it shows in the field
- Rolls their sleeves up — not afraid to be on a job site in the heat, get their boots dirty, and lead by doing
- Data driven — lets the numbers show where the real risk is and drives training and decisions from there
- Steady and consistent — holds the same standard on a good day and a bad one, so crews always know where the line is
- Coaches, not polices — corrects in a way that builds people up and makes the safe way the obvious way
Physical Demands & Work Environment
This role works both in the field and in an office. To perform the essential functions, a person in this role can typically expect to:
- Move about active job sites, including uneven ground, roadway shoulders, and work zones
- Work outdoors in varying weather — heat, cold, rain — around traffic, noise, and dust
- Drive to job sites across the region (valid driver's license required)
- Stand and walk for extended periods in the field, and sit for extended periods for documentation and reporting
- Occasionally lift and carry up to 50 pounds (safety equipment, signage, materials)
- Wear required personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Use a computer and communicate clearly, in person and in writing, with crews, customers, and management
DLB will provide reasonable accommodations to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.
- Competitive base pay, depending on experience and certifications
- Performance-based bonus opportunity
- Truck or vehicle allowance
- Health, dental, and vision
- 401(k)
- Certification reimbursement — we invest in keeping you current and credentialed
- PTO with flexibility
- The room to build — a growing, family-owned Texas company where you'll shape the safety function, not just maintain it
DLB is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process and employment. If you need an accommodation, let us know.
