McWane Ductile Ohio - Safety Manager

Company Description

Job Description

Job Summary :

We are seeking a collaborative and principled Safety Manager to champion our commitment to protecting every team member and to uphold our VPP Star certification at our 600-employee unionized heavy manufacturing site. This role is central to cultivating a culture of shared ownership, continuous learning, and operational excellence, grounded in The McWane Way principles, values, and behaviors.

The ideal candidate is both a strategic thinker and hands-on leader who models humility, fosters psychological safety, and inspires proactive engagement in safety and well-being

Key Responsibilities :

Leadership & Culture - Living the McWane Way

• Serve as a cultural steward for safety excellence, integrating McWane's core principles into daily operations and long-term strategy.
• Champion a proactive safety culture aligned with VPP Star principles, with a strong focus on Behavior-Based Safety (BBS), and employee ownership of safety.
• Foster employee-led safety initiatives, including Hourly Safety Reps, peer observations, and grassroots safety conversations.
• Champion a collaborative learning environment, ensuring that events, whether injuries, near misses, or unsafe conditions, are used as catalysts for organizational learning and continuous improvement.
• Partner with hourly and salaried employees, including union leadership, to maintain a cooperative, transparent, and safety-focused work environment.
• Lead and develop the plant's Hourly Safety Representative Program and other peer-led safety engagement initiatives.
• Maintain a strong presence on the shop floor, listening, learning, coaching, and reinforcing shared responsibility for safety.

Program Management & Compliance

Training & Development

Incident Response & Investigation

Data & Metrics

Team & Leadership

Qualifications

Qualifications :

Work Environment :

Work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and high, precarious places. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions and extreme heat or cold. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and / or humid conditions, toxic or caustic chemicals, electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

Additional Information

McWane, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Employment is made available to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, and marital status, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with reasonable accommodation, Vietnam Era or veteran status. This policy applies to hiring, placement, recruitment, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, layoffs, recalls, Company-sponsored training, terminations, and other employment-related activities.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.