Summary: The Safety Manager – Subcontractor Compliance is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing the subcontractor compliance programs. This position ensures all subcontractors, lower-tier subcontractors, and contract personnel comply with federal, state, local, customer, and company safety requirements. The Safety Manager serves as a point of contact for subcontractor prequalification, onboarding, safety observations, training verification, documentation compliance, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
This position requires overnight traveling and comes with a company vehicle used for company business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage safety for the subcontractor pre-qualification processes.
- Review and verify safety programs, OSHA records, insurance certificates, EMR ratings, licenses, and company qualifications.
- Verify employee certifications, training records, and telecommunications industry credentials.
- Ensure compliance with customer-specific onboarding requirements.
- Maintain approved subcontractor databases and qualification records.
- Travel M-F throughout the Midwest auditing our worksites.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of safety management experience in telecommunications, utilities, construction, or related industries.
- 1+ years managing subcontractor compliance programs.
- Experience working with tower construction, rooftop work, fiber deployment, civil construction, electrical construction, or wireless telecommunications projects.
- Preferred certification in occupational safety (e.g., OSHA 30, OSHA 510/500, CHST, CSP).
Specific Duties
- Collect, maintain, and audit compliance documentation.
- Verify employee training records, certifications, competent-person designations, equipment qualifications, and safety policies.
- Monitor expiration dates and renewal requirements.
- Conduct jobsite observations and compliance reviews.
- Evaluate adherence to company and customer safety requirements.
- Verify proper use of PPE, fall protection systems, rescue readiness, lifting practices, electrical safety controls, and hazard mitigation procedures.
- Analyze injury trends, near misses, Good Catches, property damage incidents, and corrective action completion.
- Participate in root cause investigations and corrective action development.
- Track corrective actions through completion and verify effectiveness.
What you can count on:
- Excellent, competitive pay ($75,000 - $90,000) depending on prior experience and knowledge.
- 401(k) with a company match (50% up to 6% of your paycheck).
- Health Insurance (multiple different plans which can be tailored to your personal situation).
- Health Savings Account/Health Reimbursement Account.
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability options (all covered 100% by OWWC).
- Life Insurance (100% covered by OWWC).
- PTO (2 weeks/year, accrued after each paycheck)
- 7 paid holidays (if it lands on a Saturday/Sunday you will get either the previous Friday or following Monday off).
- A lifelong family. OWWC works to provide that level of comfort that comes with job security and a workplace that has your back in any situation. Whether it be generous raises, companywide cookouts, competitive golf tournaments or much more, OWWC will never cease to do all that it can to make your work a place where you can make lifelong connections.
Who OWWC is: As leaders in the building of cellular telecommunications infrastructures, One Way Wireless Construction, Inc. is viewed as a one-stop contractor where our expertise in constructing, testing, and maintaining makes us the reliable and highly tenured team where we are chosen again by our cellular and other industry-related customers. We are in Shakopee, MN and have two smaller locations in Denver, CO and Basehor, KS. While a large part of our work is done on the tower top by our tower technicians, there is a whole other scope of work that must be done on the ground by our civil and electrical departments.
Pay: $75,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
