Market Safety Manager

US LBM is one of the leading and fastest-growing distributors of specialty building materials in the United States, with a team of over 15,000 employees nationwide. Since our founding in 2009, we have acquired over 60 companies and have expanded to more than 400 locations serving 37 states.

US LBM is a progressive organization that promotes a unique culture that focuses on the value of its customers and associates. Developing our people is critical to our strategy and fostering our culture of empowerment.

The Market Safety Manager’s primary objective is to protect and enhance the safety of our associates within the market through prevention, fostering a culture of caring where safety, health and environment are ingrained as a core value in support of operations and overall company success.

This position works closely with market operational leadership as well as the onsite Divisional Safety leads to ensures compliance across all safety, health, and environmental aspects of the market in every location. This role sets the local safety, health, and environmental strategies for overall success in alignment with corporate policy and common practices.

This role will develop and manage a team to leverage new and/or existing relationships and networks within the market to implement safety initiatives/programs and overall reduce frequency and severity of incidents.

This is a remote role and candidates within the Minneapolis/St. Paul area are preferred.

Things you should know about working at US LBM:

We are all about teamwork! All positions are hands-on, and we band together when necessary.

We support each other. We have local and corporate team members to help you along the way and partner on projects as appropriate.

We are in a relaxed atmosphere; this is not a suit-and-tie environment.

We work hard. We are a continuous improvement-driven organization, and we are focused on keeping organized and on task.

How you will spend your days as the Market Safety Manager:

Lead the divisional/location safety leaders within the market.

Ensures the rollout and completion of safety training for employees on policies, regulations, and procedures.

Advise the company’s operations team on safety issues and compliance.

Analyze incident reports, metrics, and injury case studies to institute changes that lead to a safer environment.

Preforms and manages market safety audit and observation programs and develop corrective actions with local

leadership.

With location leaders, review injury/incidents to identify trends and mitigate future occurrences.

Develop and communicate safety goals and performance results to market operational leadership and local management.

Lead location leadership through OSHA engagements and ensure responses/corrective action are executed within provided timelines.

Provide in person accident investigations for all loss time events and ensure all incidents and near misses are

appropriately investigated in efforts to meet or exceed industry average DART scores.

Execute proactive injury reduction initiatives leveraging 3rd party resources.

Monitor and track location safety committee progress and goals to ensure they are aligned and impactful.

Manage and distribute market location 300 Logs.

Work closely with Risk Management in the investigation of incidents.

We offer…

Health care benefits, starting the first of the month after 30 days of employment

Monday - Friday schedule

401(k) with company match

Closed holidays

Paid time off

Employee discount

Relocation

We’ll support your educational and career goals with our continuing education programs

We want you to join the team if you can check these boxes:

3+ years in a management position responsible for leading others.

3 + years’ experience in a safety, environmental or health role with progressive responsibility

Prior experience applying environmental, health, and/or safety in the building materials industry a plus.

Professional certifications in Safety, Health, and Environmental related fields are considered beneficial and may include CIH, NEBOSH, CSP, CEM, etc.

Prior OSHA Compliance experience.

Strong working knowledge of ISO 14001 and LEAN concepts.

Knowledge of OSHA, EPA, and DOT regulations.

Must be capable of working in a fast-paced environment with minimal direct supervision and have strong demonstrated

leadership, interpersonal, and self-initiative skills.

Demonstrated ability to drive sustainable organizational change.

Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional teams capable of delivering desired results.

Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and influence across a diverse range of people from Corporate /Division leadership to a frontline associate.

Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically and quickly transition between the two.

Good technical understanding of Safety, Health, and Environmental issues and their relationship to production/engineering and job functions as it relates to building in prevention.

Strong demonstrated verbal / written communications, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Must be detailed and results oriented.

Ability to communicate complex regulatory and technical issues in lay terms.

Ability to achieve results through dotted line reporting situation.

Must be able to wear all appropriate PPE including hard hat, vests, gloves, footwear, and infrequent use of masks.

Travel as necessary within Market or outside Market areas for company functions or conferences.

US LBM Holdings, LLC is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, order of protection status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.