Director, Safety and Risk

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Director, Safety and Risk

Department: Safety & Risk

Classification: Exempt

Reports to: Vice President, Safety & Risk (and any secondary reporting lines as assigned by your manager) 

Provide enterprise-level leadership for the company’s risk management, safety, and quality assurance functions. Establish, manage, and continuously improve programs that proactively identify, assess, and mitigate operational, project, contractual, and safety-related risk. Ensure compliance with all safety, risk, and quality standards by project teams, employees, and subcontractors, while conducting oneself in a manner consistent with the company’s core values. As an employee owner, act in the company’s best interest and in support of the organization’s overall goals and objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

The essential duties and responsibilities of the Director of Safety and Risk consist of, but are not limited to, the following. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

Key Functions:

• Establish, lead, and continuously improve a comprehensive enterprise risk management framework addressing safety, operational, project, contractual, and financial risk.

• Provide executive ownership and strategic direction for the company's Safety Management System, including policies, procedures, and performance standards.

• Directly oversee the Corporate Safety Manager and provide leadership, coaching, and development to safety personnel across the organization.

• Review, analyze, and recommend risk control techniques and loss prevention practices to reduce incidents, claims, and exposures.

• Oversee insurance programs, including General Liability, Workers’ Compensation, Auto, Professional Liability, and OCIP/CCIP programs, as applicable.

• Provide strategic oversight of the company’s insurance programs, including program structure, coverage alignment, and risk financing strategies; partner with VP, CRO, brokers, and carriers to support insurance placement, renewals, and alignment with the company’s risk profile.

• Collaborate with Legal and Operations on contract risk review, focusing on indemnification, insurance requirements, and risk transfer strategies.

• Provide executive oversight of the company’s Quality Assurance and Quality Control programs as a core risk mitigation function.

• Provide executive oversight of claims management activities, including review of significant claims, loss trend analysis, and coordination with brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators to support timely resolution, cost control, and continuous loss reduction.

• Lead project-level risk reviews during pursuit and preconstruction to identify key risk drivers, constructability issues, and mitigation strategies.

• Direct serious incident response, investigation, and root cause analysis, ensuring timely corrective actions and organizational learning.

• Establish safety, risk, and quality performance metrics; develop dashboards and reporting for executive leadership.

• Lead lessons learned, continuous improvement initiatives, and process enhancements across safety, risk, and quality disciplines.

• Manage departmental budgets and participate in forecasting resources required for staffing, training, technology, and program support.

• Provide day-to-day leadership that promotes a high-performance, customer service–oriented work environment aligned with the company’s mission, values, and employee ownership culture.

Other Duties:

• Develop executive-level reports, presentations, and dashboards for leadership review.

• Support the development of training materials and leadership education related to risk, safety, and quality.

• Serve as liaison with regulatory agencies, insurance carriers, industry organizations, and risk control partners.

• Monitor industry trends, regulatory changes, and emerging risks; recommend policy and program updates as necessary.

• Manage and coordinate third-party risk control, safety, and insurance consultants.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Competencies:

The Director of Risk & Safety is expected to demonstrate leadership, strategic thinking, sound judgment, effective communication, accountability, collaboration, and results orientation consistent with a senior leadership role.