Safety Manager

Location: Louisville, KY
Salary Range: $110,000 – $130,000
Schedule: In-Office | Full-Time

About Our Client

Our client is a Louisville-based provider of conveyor and material handling solutions supporting manufacturing, distribution, and logistics operations. Their systems are built for performance, reliability, and safety—and this role plays a critical part in ensuring those standards are upheld across operations.

About the Role

We are seeking a Safety Manager to lead, implement, and continuously improve the company’s safety programs. This is a hands-on, in-office leadership role responsible for ensuring compliance with OSHA standards, reducing workplace risk, and fostering a strong safety-first culture across engineering, manufacturing, and field installation teams.

This position reports directly to senior leadership and will serve as the subject matter expert for all safety-related initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain company-wide safety programs and policies

• Ensure compliance with OSHA and all federal, state, and local safety regulations

• Conduct regular safety audits, inspections, and risk assessments

• Lead incident investigations and implement corrective and preventive actions

• Manage workers’ compensation cases and return-to-work programs

• Facilitate safety training programs for manufacturing and field installation teams

• Maintain and update safety documentation, reporting, and compliance records

• Track and report key safety metrics (TRIR, DART, near-miss reporting, etc.)

• Partner with operations and project teams to integrate safety into project planning

• Promote a proactive safety culture through engagement and accountability

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Health, Engineering, or related field preferred

• 5+ years of safety leadership experience in manufacturing, industrial, or construction environments

• Strong knowledge of OSHA regulations and compliance requirements

• Experience supporting field installation or project-based operations is highly preferred

• OSHA 30 certification required; CSP or ASP certification is a plus

• Experience conducting incident investigations and root cause analysis

• Strong leadership, communication, and training facilitation skills

• Ability to influence culture and hold teams accountable

Why This Role

• Competitive salary: $110K – $130K

• High-impact leadership role with visibility to executive leadership

• Opportunity to shape and strengthen company-wide safety culture

• Stable, growing organization in the material handling and automation space

• In-office collaboration with engineering and operations teams

If you’re a safety professional who believes production goals and safety standards go hand-in-hand—not one at the expense of the other—this is a strong platform to make measurable impact.