Job Description

Health & Safety Director

Lead enterprise safety strategy for a national engineering and consulting organization.

 

Kleinfelder is seeking a Health & Safety Director to lead, strengthen, and continuously improve our enterprise-wide safety program. This highly visible leadership role is ideal for an experienced H&S executive who can set strategy, influence culture, partner with senior leaders, and advance practical, data-informed safety solutions across a complex professional services, engineering, consulting, and field-services environment.

Why Join Kleinfelder

At Kleinfelder, health and safety is more than a compliance function—it is central to how we deliver work, support our people, and serve our clients. In this role, you will help shape the future of Kleinfelder’s safety culture, influence enterprise-wide operating practices, and lead a team of professionals whose work directly supports safe project delivery across the company.

What You’ll Do

• Lead Kleinfelder’s enterprise Health & Safety strategy, including a forward-looking roadmap that improves safety performance, strengthens accountability, and supports continuous improvement.
• Use H&S data, field insight, and operational trends to identify risks, prioritize solutions, and promote practical prevention strategies.
• Build safety stewardship across the company through visible leadership, clear communication, and consistent employee engagement.
• Own the H&S Strategic Plan and monitor progress against safety improvement priorities, safety metrics, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Partner with executive leadership, operations, and project teams to integrate health and safety into business decisions, project planning, and high-risk work.
• Lead company-wide H&S programs, including laboratory safety, radiation safety, subcontractor prequalification, training, client prequalification, and incident response.
• Respond to incidents, lead investigations, recommend corrective actions, and share lessons learned to prevent recurrence.
• Lead, develop, and motivate a high-performing team of H&S professionals who strengthen employee engagement and reinforce Kleinfelder’s culture of safety.

What You’ll Bring

The ideal candidate is a strategic, credible, and collaborative safety leader who can operate at both the executive and field level. You bring sound judgment, practical problem-solving, strong regulatory knowledge, and the ability to influence leaders and employees across a decentralized organization.

• Extensive experience leading occupational health and safety programs in a professional services, consulting, engineering, construction, environmental, or field-services environment.
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy, manage enterprise programs, lead teams, and influence senior leaders and operational stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of federal and state health and safety regulations, regulatory reporting requirements, incident management, and risk mitigation practices.
• Ability to use data, field insight, and operational judgment to identify trends, evaluate risk, and drive practical safety improvements.
• Experience managing budgets, resources, program priorities, and third-party systems or prequalification processes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build trust, reinforce accountability, and engage employees at all levels in a strong safety culture.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Health, Public Health, or a related field.
• 15 years of progressive experience in occupational health and safety.
• 10 years of experience in a leadership or management role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Executive-level or enterprise safety leadership experience at an AEC firm.
• Experience supporting distributed teams, field operations, and project-based delivery environments.
• Professional certification in occupational health and safety or a related discipline, such as Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), or equivalent.
• Experience with client prequalification systems, subcontractor safety programs, and insurance or claims-related safety metrics.

Following an offer, candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete employment reference checks, verification of professional licensure and/or educational credentials, a motor vehicle report (MVR), and a comprehensive background check.

 

Move Forward with Kleinfelder: Kleinfelder has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients’ transportation, water, energy, and other private infrastructure. As a responsive, cross-disciplinary team of bright, curious, and innovative problem-solvers, we are dedicated to doing the right thing, every day, on every project from over 110 offices in the US, Canada, and Australia. Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose – together, we deliver.

 

Progress with an Employer that Values You

Kleinfelder is an inclusive organization free from discrimination. We are a stronger organization when we are a diverse workforce and believe that through diversity, equity, and inclusion comes creativity, innovation, and unity. We are proud to offer the following: 

 

Benefits: Kleinfelder offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays. The expected salary range for the position is displayed in accordance with the California Pay Transparency Law.  Final agreed upon compensation is based upon individual qualifications and experience. Salary Range: $188,807-$315,073.

 

Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program. 

 

Equal Opportunity: Kleinfelder is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules) 

 

 

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES  

Please note that Kleinfelder does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Kleinfelder will not consider or agree to payment for any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Kleinfelder explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kleinfelder.