Vice President Safety
- MILWAUKEE, WI, United States
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JOB REQUIREMENTS: Job Description:Make safety central to how work gets done. At Walbec, safety is not a separate initiative or a checklist completed after decisions are made. It must be considered from the earliest stages of planning through every day of execution. We are seeking a Vice President of Safety who will help make the protection of our people a defining part of how we lead, plan, invest, and operate. This executive will lead safety strategy across our construction, materials production, transportation, and field operations. Working closely with operational leaders, the VP will strengthen accountability, build trusted relationships in the field, and ensure that employees have the support, information, and authority to work safely. Our expectation is simple and important: every team member should return home with the same health and physical abilities they brought to work. What You Will Lead * Enterprise strategy: Set a compelling safety vision and integrate risk prevention into business planning, capital decisions, estimating, scheduling, staffing, and operational priorities. * Operational partnership: Help executives, managers, supervisors, and crews own safe execution; identify and resolve production pressures and planning gaps before they expose people to risk. * High-consequence risk prevention: Guide technical safety programs, critical-risk controls, incident learning, regulatory safety obligations, and appropriate escalation of serious hazards. * Safety team leadership: Develop an effective Safety organization with clear accountability, strong field presence, consistent technical standards, and a coaching-oriented service model. * Data-informed decisions: Improve the reliability and use of safety information, leading indicators, incident insights, and performance reporting to focus effort where it matters most. * Culture and continuous improvement: Build employee trust, encourage reporting and stop-work decisions, turn feedback into improvements, and sustain change across business units. * Cross-functional integration: Partner with Operations, Human Resources, and other enterprise functions, maintaining technical occupational safety leadership while designated administrative compliance activities are managed through HR. What You Bring * Progressive safety leadership experience in construction, materials, transportation, or similarly complex, high-hazard, multi-site operations. * Demonstrated ability to lead strategically, influence senior executives, develop teams, and build accountability across decentralized operations. * Strong knowledge of... For full info follow application link. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and it is our practice to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants. In addition, it is the policy of the Company to comply with applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in each locality in which the Company has employees. ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/64CB359C51544CFB