POSITION CONCEPT

The Sr Mgr Safety & Ind Health is responsible for driving effective field safety performance through visible leadership, oversight of safety professionals, and strong partnership with operations. This includes setting and reinforcing clear safety expectations, fostering a strong “stop work and speak up” culture, and ensuring consistent application of safety systems and risk controls. Supports operational leaders by enabling hazard identification, risk management, and performance insight, while coordinating incident response and learning to reduce serious injury risk. Through leadership, oversight, and engagement, ensures safety is consistently integrated into daily work execution and continuous improvement across the organization.  As a team the Tampa Electric Company believes safety of life shall outweigh all other considerations and strives for World Class Safety.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Operational Partnership (20%)

• Serve as a resource to operational team members for hazard identification, risk assessment, and control implementation.
• Facilitate implementation of safety requirements, including Safey Management System and Safe Work Practices, to ensure compliance with federal (OSHA), state, local, industry best practices.
• Deliver initiatives to strengthen hazard identification and controls, reduce serious injury and fatality (SIF) potential, and enhance field safety outcomes.
• Implement field-based safety support activities, including but not limited to continuous observation and feedback of active tasks, attendance at safety meetings, and participation with safety committees.

2. Incident Management & Learning (20%)

• Coordinate incident response and investigations at the business unit level, by: managing safety's onsite incident response, ensuring timely reporting of incidents (personal injuries, near misses, and controllable accidents), facilitating investigation teams, and tracking of corrective actions.
• Ensure timely and effective communication of lessons learned across the business units to prevent occurrence.

3. Strategy and Governance (15%)

• Ensure consistent interpretation and optimized implementation of corporate safety requirements, SMS workplans, Safe Work Practices, and standards.
• Support and collaborate with business unit leaders to integrate safety into business planning, decision making, and daily execution.
• Monitor performance metrics, dashboards and leading/lagging indicators to assess effectiveness and identify trends.

4. Leadership and Oversight (15%)

• Provide leadership, direction and performance oversight to safety professionals and others within the safety organization.  
• Demonstrate sincere personal concern inspiring a nobody gets hurt mindset.
• Develop safety leaders by strengthening technical capability, leadership presence, and influence.
• Ensure visible presence through active field presence, personal engagement, continuous feedback, recognition of safe performance, and leading by example.

5. Risk & Contractor Safety (15%)

• Ensure consistent implementation and effectiveness of the Risk Management Program.
• Monitor contractor safety performance, ensuring alignment with TEC Contractor Safety Management Program requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Assess effectiveness of risk and contractor safety programs; partner with supply chain and operations to address gaps.
• Support escalation and resolution of significant contractor safety issues.

6. Culture, Training & Engagement (15%)

• Promote a strong “stop work and speak up” culture and reinforce expectations for safe behaviors.
• Champion visible safety leadership and model expected behaviors across all levels of the organization.
• Support safety training content development.
• Recognize and promote strong safety leadership, innovation, and positive field safety performance.

SUPERVISION

Direct Supervision: Team of Safety professionals within the assigned Business units.

Indirect Supervision: Indirect supervision of team members and contractors in safety-related aspects of the jobs. Empowered to stop any unsafe TEC team members or contractor on-site work activity that does not meet TEC Safe Work Practices, OSHA Regulations, or other company procedures of Tampa Electric Company, includes temporary and contractor team members.

RELATIONSHIPS

Key Internal: Programmatic Safety and Analytics Team, BU Leadership, Safety Leaders, Supervisors and Crews, Legal, Claims and Litigation Team, Engineering & Asset Management, Procurement, Training

Key External: Prime Contractors, Subcontractors, Vendors, Service Providers, Emergency Response Partners

QUALIFICATIONS

Education  

Required: Bachelors Degree in a related field.

Preferred: Associates or Bachelor’s degree in related field.

Licenses/Certifications              

Required: Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or safety certification/certificate, as determined with direct performance coach, must be obtained within one year.

Experience

Required: 8 years related electric utility operations experience or safety experience. In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, an additional 4 years of experience may be considered.

Supervisory Experience 

Required: 3 years of leadership experience.

Preferred: Leadership in utility safety (demonstrated ability to lead people or projects).

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (KSA)

Required:

• Must possess strong knowledge of field‑based safety systems, serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention, risk management principles, and applicable Safe Work Practices (a strong understanding of OSHA, state, local, and industry regulatory requirements may be considered in lieu of this requirement).
• Demonstrated leadership and people‑management skills to provide direction, coaching, and performance oversight to safety professionals, while modeling visible safety leadership and reinforcing a strong “stop work and speak up” culture.
• Requires the ability to partner effectively with operations to integrate safety into daily work execution, support hazard identification and risk control implementation, and use performance metrics and leading and lagging indicators to identify trends and drive improvement.  Strong communication, collaboration, and professional judgment are required to influence across the organization, balance operational demands with safety expectations, and consistently uphold the principle that safety shall outweigh all other considerations.

Preferred:

• Proven capability in coordinating incident response, investigations, corrective actions, and organizational learning.
• ln addition to experience overseeing contractor safety performance and risk management program effectiveness.