Safety Program Manager (Kansas City)
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Job overview
The Safety Program Manager develops, implements, and manages corporate safety programs and procedures, fostering a safety-conscious culture. The role leads program strategy, execution, risk management, training, compliance monitoring, and continuous improvement. It also manages the safety program budget, vendors, and staff, while coordinating with internal teams, regulatory agencies, external safety organizations, and emergency response teams.
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Description
The Safety Program Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing a comprehensive safety programs and procedures while fostering a safety-conscious culture within the organization. This role will create safety programs, from inception through roll-out, including the development and implementation of processes, procedures, strategy, execution plans, resource planning, risk management, and reporting tools. The Safety Program Manager will lead the program management team in a dynamic and profitable manner based on Burns & McDonnell's core values of client satisfaction, commitment, dedication, integrity, safety and overall outstanding service.
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Lead the development and execution of overall Corporate Safety programs, strategies and guidelines that align with strategic business initiatives to achieve goals and objectives.
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Conduct regular safety training and awareness programs for employees and leadership.
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure corporate safety programs are integrated into all aspects of the organizations operations and projects.
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Lead assessment of gaps in current corporate safety programs and create and implement mitigation plans.
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Lead safety programs, initiatives, and projects, including the selection and management of safety vendors and consultants as needed.
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Lead, monitor, and track safety compliance metrics, analyze data, and make data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement.
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Build and maintain relationships with external safety organizations, regulatory agencies, and local emergency response teams.
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Responsible for management of corporate safety program budget and expenditure of funds.
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Responsible for the recruitment, development, training, and retention of staff.
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Responsible for conducting performance evaluations for department staff.
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Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to the department.
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Responsible for interpreting the organization's policies, purposes, and goals to staff.
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Responsible for overall QA/QC process adherence.
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Enforce compliance with company and site safety policies.
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Performs other duties as assigned
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Complies with all policies and standards
Qualifications
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Bachelor Degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science or related field and 10 years related experience Required or
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applicable years of experience may be substituted for degree requirement Required
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Proven experience in safety management.
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Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret data to make informed decisions.
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Expert project management and organizational skills.
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In depth knowledge of safety regulations, standards and best.
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Expert facilitation, collaboration, organization, and problem solving skills.
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Ability to thoughtfully and positively influence, lead and manage.
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Excellent planning and analytical skills.
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Must demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills; and the ability to clearly and effectively present complex information to all levels of employees, management, and clients.
This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.
EEO/Disabled/Veterans
Job Safety & Health
Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Req ID: 265289
Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-GS #COR N/A
How this job compares
Set against the 1,102 open Safety Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$100–126K/yr661 salary ranges
- US median$45–50/hr26 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 18 open Safety Manager jobs in Missouri and 1,102 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Amazon104 open
- Compass Group, North America74 open
- Kiewit52 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Safety Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 892 postings).
- Education
- 331 of the 1,102 open Safety Manager jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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