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Manager, Construction Safety
We are seeking a Construction Safety Manager to serve as the senior authority for safety governance at our large-scale vertical construction sites. This is a strategic leadership position designed to protect Rivian’s interests as the "Owner" and "Controlling Employer." You will be responsible for defining and evolving how safety is managed across a multi-employer ecosystem, ensuring that all partners and contractors adhere to the highest standards while maintaining a collaborative relationship with federal regulators.
Why This Role Matters
Why This Role Matters
- Design the Safety Operating System: You will define how core construction safety is structured and executed, ensuring that Rivian can scale its physical footprint without losing clarity or personnel safety quality.
- Unlock Capacity through Systemic Safety: By thoughtfully applying Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles, you will move the team from manual, reactive monitoring to proactive, systemic defense.
- Drive Change at a Pivotal Moment: As Rivian grows, this role will be central to how we standardize global safety practices and build the infrastructure that supports long-term operational excellence.
Team Leadership & Management
- Lead and develop a small team responsible for work mapping, process redesign, and new ways of working across the onsite construction safety organization.
- Set clear goals, operating rhythms, and standards for the safety team, including diagnostics, pilots, and scaled implementation of site-wide protocols.
- Coach and performance-manage team members, creating opportunities for growth, stretch assignments, and cross-functional exposure.
Construction Transformation & Operating Effectiveness
- Manage the "Controlling Employer" liability by overseeing agency agreements with core contractors and ensuring independent safety staffing is optimized.
Continuous Improvement, Standardization & Process Design
- Own end-to-end process redesign for priority journeys, including contractor onboarding, site access competency verification, and high-risk task reviews.
- Establish common standards for process documentation and handoffs to reduce variability and enable smoother execution across separate contractor entities.
- Identify friction points, inefficiencies, and avoidable demand, and lead simplification efforts with measurable impact on site safety throughput.
Systemic Safety & Digital Enablement
- Identify high-value opportunities to apply AI, workflow automation, and knowledge management to safety processes to improve data accuracy and personnel capacity.
- Translate safety goals into clear requirements and priorities for digital platforms like ServiceNow and safety tracking systems to automate manual coordination.
- Partner closely with IT and Data teams to ensure safety dashboards are designed around real work-flows, with strong measurement and feedback loops to identify Serious Injury or Fatality (SIF) precursors.
Change, Adoption & Leadership
- Lead change management and adoption strategies for new safety systems, process redesigns, and digital capabilities.
- Build strong partnerships with COEs, IT, and external partners to align priorities, sequencing, and messaging for regulatory milestones.
- Coach and influence site leaders through periods of transition, helping them navigate trade-offs, clarify roles, and embed systemic safety as a core value.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in Construction Safety, or related fields within complex, scaling industrial environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading process redesign, work transitions, shared-services enablement, or high-level safety operating model changes.
- Strong working knowledge of technology ecosystems, including ServiceNow and Workday, and familiarity with integrated safety/compliance platforms.
- Familiarity with AI and automation concepts (e.g., workflow automation, knowledge management, agent assist) and their application within site operations.
- Proven "systems thinker" who can connect strategy, operations, and technology into coherent, actionable roadmaps.
- Experience partnering closely with IT and digital teams to define requirements, evaluate solution options, and prioritize work across platforms.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesize complex technical inputs for executive leadership.
- Proven ability to set direction, delegate effectively, and manage capacity across a team during periods of high-intensity growth.
- Track record of building inclusive, high-trust team cultures that balance performance, growth, and well-being.
- Bachelor’s degree required in Occupational Health, Safety Management, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
- Advanced professional certification (ASP, CSP, or equivalent) is required or currently in progress.
- Deep understanding of the "Controlling Employer" doctrine and experience managing OSHA Strategic Partnerships (OSP).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in high-growth technology, EV, manufacturing, or similarly complex industrial environments.
- Background in Lean, Six Sigma, design thinking, or service design applied to operational or safety processes.
- Prior responsibility for global safety operations, shared services, or large-scale multi-employer service delivery models.
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