Manager Safety Operations - Safety Operations - Akron Firstenergy Headquarters

Manager, Safety Operations

FirstEnergy at a Glance We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers' lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger. FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

About the Opportunity This is an open position with FirstEnergy Service Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. Resume Deadline:

Summary: The Manager, Safety Operations, will develop, deploy, lead, and maintain an effective and sustainable safety culture across the business units. This requires flexibility and adaptability to ensure their team is providing timely critical feedback in a consistent and proactive manner. This position will ensure the team works closely with the business unit leadership to positively affect outcomes at the worker interface. It is accountable, along with the business unit leadership team for performance against the organization's stated health and safety performance goals. This position is responsible for ensuring compliance and the successful execution of the Safety & Health programs. This includes supporting the business units in the execution of the contractor and public safety programs. FirstEnergy takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. In addition, your actual base salary will depend on various factors such as your skills, qualifications, and experience. The estimated pay range for this role is $123,000- $174,000.

The Safety Manager provides direction and leadership from the following perspectives:

• Lead efforts in creating, developing, implementing, fostering and sustaining a safety culture where employees own, promote, and reinforce safe behaviors and feel empowered to speak up
• Responsible for ensuring all Safety & Health programs, training, and strategy are successfully implemented across the business units. This applies to employee, contractor, and public safety initiatives.
• Influence and coach team and business unit leadership and frontline employees on development of robust action plans to improve safety performance and to implement strategy moving forward
• Stay well versed in and ensure the company complies with all state, federal and local regulatory requirements
• Establish and develop substantive working relationships with peers, staff, business unit leadership and union leadership. Create an environment and implement changes, where needed, to enhance FirstEnergy's culture of safety, compliance, inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Deliver results on an established and standardized metrics/dashboard to measure performance, including a robust assessment / audit process to demonstrate compliance with all laws and regulations as well as the safety management system
• Establish clear accountabilities for team members with performance objectives that align with the overall FE and departmental strategy
• Initiate and monitor implementation of appropriate safety and safeguards in accordance with applicable regulations and professional practice to ensure that employee, community and environmental hazards and impacts of operational activities are eliminated or reduced to acceptable risk levels
• Ability to analyze data and identify trends to drive continuous improvement in