EHS Manager - Wireless Operations

EHS Manager - Wireless Operations

AFL provides industry-leading fiber optic products and services across the globe. Our company was founded in 1984 with a single fiber optic cable and now we manufacture over two thousand products, employ over 5,000 associates and consistently generate annual sales in excess of 2 billion-dollars in revenue. With our commitment to professional growth and employee development, let AFL "Connect" you to your next career opportunity!

The EHSS Manager Wireless Operations is responsible for leading environment, health, safety, and security (EHSS) performance across AFL Wireless construction activities and select field operational support. This role protects people while enabling predictable project execution, schedule certainty, and customer confidence in high?risk, fast?paced environments.

The EHSS Manager serves as the primary EHSS interface between AFL Wireless leadership, customers, general contractors, tower owners, trade partners, and service providers. Success is measured not solely by injury outcomes, but by the organization's ability to identify risk, verify critical controls, and intervene before incidents occur.

This role reports to the Senior EHSS Manager US Services and has authority to escalate safety concerns and stop work when critical controls are not in place or when conditions present an imminent risk to people, property, or operations.

Scope of Responsibility:

• Construction: Full EHSS oversight of wireless construction, modification, and upgrade activities
• Operations (Limited): EHSS support for maintenance or field activities as assigned.
• Out of Scope: This role does not own ongoing operational EHSS programs outside assigned Wireless field activities.

The position is field?heavy and typically supports multiple concurrent sites or programs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership, Authority & Safety Culture
• Lead and sustain a proactive, risk?based safety culture across Wireless Operations.
• Reinforce safety as the verification and control of risk, not merely the absence of incidents.
• Maintain sufficient field presence to coach leaders, supervisors, and contractors where work and risk occur.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Wireless business leaders by aligning EHSS controls with schedule, cost, quality, and customer commitments.
• Exercise stop?work authority and escalate unresolved or high?risk conditions through leadership channels.
• Customer, Contractor & Stakeholder Interface
• Serve as the central EHSS liaison between: Wireless business leadership, Customer EHS and program representatives, General contractors, tower owners, commissioning partners, and specialty subcontractors.
• Translate customer EHSS and security requirements into practical, field?ready standards.
• Support customer audits, walkthroughs, and reviews as the EHSS point of contact.
• Promote consistent safety expectations across multiple employers and shared work environments.
• Risk Management & Field Execution
• Lead task?level hazard identification and risk assessments, with emphasis on: Working at heights (towers, rooftops, lifts), Electrical safety and temporary power, SIMOPS, Confined space work, where applicable.
• Support high?risk permit systems and verify critical control implementation before work begins.
• Participate in daily planning activities, including pre?task briefs and sequencing discussions.
• Support management of change when scope, conditions, or work plans shift.
• Contractor Safety Oversight
• Support contractor prequalification, onboarding, and site?specific orientation.
• Verify contractor compliance with AFL expectations, customer requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Conduct field audits and observations focused on higher?risk activities.
• Address performance gaps through coaching, corrective actions, or escalation as required.
• Incident, Emergency & Crisis Management
• Lead or support investigations of incidents, near misses, and hazard reports.
• Apply structured root cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are completed and effective.
• Support emergency response preparedness, including rescue planning and evacuation coordination.
• Escalate serious incidents in accordance with AFL and customer protocols.
• Communicate lessons learned across Wireless Operations to prevent recurrence.
• Security, Compliance & Program Support
• Reinforce site security expectations, including access control, badging, and protection of sensitive customer infrastructure.
• Interpret and apply applicable federal, state, and local EHSS requirements.
• Maintain accurate and auditable records using corporate systems.
• Support internal audits and customer or regulatory interactions.
• Training, Communication & Engagement
• Oversee development and delivery of practical EHSS onboarding, task?specific, and refresher training for employees and contractors.
• Communicate expectations using clear, direct, field?ready language.
• Reinforce requirements through leadership engagement and field execution.
• Metrics, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
• Track and trend EHSS performance indicators, including: Incident and near?miss frequency and severity, Audit findings and corrective action closure rates, Training completion and field compliance indicators.
• Report on performance trends and risk insights into business and EHSS leadership.
• Use data and field observations to identify improvement opportunities.
• Success Measures / KPIs
• Reduction in recordable and high?potential incidents
• Timely closure of audit findings and corrective actions
• Contractor compliance and field execution quality
• Effective control of high?risk activities
• Positive customer audit and program feedback
• Qualifications
• Required
• Bachelor's degree in EHSS, Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of EHSS experience supporting construction or field?based operations.
• Demonstrated experience in multi?employer construction environments.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA regulations
• Ability to influence without authority and build credibility with business leaders and contractors.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% and support off?hours work as required.
• Preferred
• Wireless or large?scale infrastructure construction experience
• Experience supporting multi?site or program?based coverage.
• OSHA 30
• Professional certification (CSP, CHST, or equivalent)
• Multilingual capability (Spanish preferred)
• Working Conditions
• Remotely based with frequent travel to project and customer sites
• Regular exposure to active construction environments and elevated work
• Flexibility to support night, weekend, or weather?driven activities.

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