Safety Specialist III

Overview

Why Henkels & McCoy West

Join a 100-year-old infrastructure leader committed to innovation, safety, and career growth. You’ll tackle complex, high-visibility projects that keep the lights on for millions—while working with a team that values your expertise and empowers your professional development.

Company Overview

Henkels & McCoy West works closely with clients from diverse markets to build enduring partnerships throughout the Western United States. Our team of seasoned professionals designs, builds, manages, and maintains critical and sustainable infrastructure for the power, oil & gas pipeline, gas distribution, and communications industries. Building on a 100-year legacy of performance and service to utility, commercial, industrial, and government clients, H&M West brings together extensive knowledge and innovation to deliver infrastructure construction solutions that meet future energy needs today.

H&M West is a purpose-driven company. Our core values guide our strategy, performance, and culture. We believe in maintaining an environment where team members can make an impact, grow, and thrive. A place where they find meaning and purpose in doing the important work of ensuring communities have the vital energy, light, and communications to prosper. Our culture is inclusive and welcoming. Our teams are empowered with abundant training, tools, and opportunities to follow their curiosity and ambitions. Everyone has an equal chance to advance. Everyone is supported, respected, and challenged to be their best. We’re always looking for talented and dedicated people to join us and love where they work.

Henkels & McCoy West is a proud subsidiary of MasTec (NYSE: MTZ), a Fortune 500 Company ranked by Energy News-Record as one of the leading contractors in the country. H&M West is part of the MasTec Power Delivery segment. We are certified as a minority-controlled company by the National Minority Suppliers Development Council (NMSDC). Our rich diversity of people and ideas makes us a stronger, more innovative organization.

Position Summary

The Safety Specialist III is a senior-level safety professional responsible for supporting, developing, and implementing comprehensive safety and health programs across multiple projects, facilities, or regions. This role provides subject matter expertise in occupational health and safety regulations, company safety policies, and industry best practices to ensure a safe working environment and compliance with federal, state, and local safety standards.

Working with minimal supervision, the Safety Specialist III leads safety audits, conducts risk assessments, investigates incidents, and partners with operational teams to drive continuous improvement in safety culture and performance. This position serves as a mentor and technical resource to junior safety staff and project leadership, and plays a critical role in fostering proactive safety behavior and promoting accountability at all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• To provide operations management with effective safety coaching, counseling, and advice, ensuring Henkels & McCoy West, LLC operations management delivers a safe and efficient work environment for all employees, customers, and the public
• Provides specific safety training, education, and related programs for operations management to use and implement while completing work
• Acts as a “safety” motivator for management and employees alike, ensuring safety remains an active part of the work and the culture at Henkels & McCoy West, LLC
• Provides “safety” subject matter expertise, ensuring the most relevant and effective safety practices are used and implemented while delivering work at Henkels & McCoy West, LLC
• Travel (100%) to multiple projects throughout California, as assigned to provide support to Operations
• Implement the Safety Systems for new project start-ups
• Proactively assess the “safety climate’ via observations, audit trend analysis, investigation of key learnings, etc.
• Communicate and make appropriate recommendations to line management for process improvements or corrective actions
• Ability to work effectively, professionally, and respectfully in a team-based environment as a team leader and team member and to promote respectful interaction with others with whom the position interacts
• Ability to lead organizational changes to continuously improve OS&H work processes, systems, and programs and to attain organizational goals and objectives for OS&H performance and compliance

Qualifications

• CUSP and/or CHST preferred  
• 5 Years’ experience in Safety and Occupational Health disciplines – professional certifications will be considered of substituting for experience requirements (Power Distribution / Transmission; Construction Industry preferred
• Effective oral presentation, report writing, and other written communication skills
• Microsoft Office
• Bachelor’s Degree in an Occupational Safety and Health discipline (e.g., OS&H Management, Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics, Human Factors, or another applicable technical field – chemistry, biology, engineering, physiology) or equivalent and relevant professional safety experience
• Knowledge of applicable ANSI, EPA, DOT, and OSHA Standards (29 CFR 1910.268) and other applicable standards
• Ability to work effectively, professionally, and respectfully in a team-based environment as a team leader and team member and to promote respectful interaction with others with whom the position interacts

• Ability to lead task teams and interact effectively with diverse people from various functions, levels, and backgrounds

Wage Range:

$79,700 - $119,500/Annually, DOE

Benefits: 

Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our benefit plan which includes the following: 

• 401(k) Plan 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan 
• Health, Dental, & Vision Insurance 
• Voluntary Life Insurance 
• Voluntary Short Term & Long-Term Disability 
• Paid time off