Senior Regional Safety Manager

As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will... 

• Grow with an Ownership Mindset: We champion continuous learning and innovation. You'll take on real problems, create tangible solutions, and drive results that move the needle for ShipBob, our merchants, and for your own professional growth. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career, this is the place. 
• Collaborate with Peers and Leaders Alike: At ShipBob, leaders are accessible; feedback flows in both directions, and everyone, regardless of their seniority or role, steps up to help when needed. We hold each other to high standards because we trust each other to meet them. That combination of transparency and mutual respect is what makes the work here feel worth doing. 
• Experience a High-Performance Culture and Clear Purpose: We are results-driven and clear about what that means: our goals are specific, accountability is shared, and every team member can see how their work connects to our mission. When we hit milestones, we celebrate them together. When we fall short, we learn and move forward. 

Location: Remote in these states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KS, KY, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI  

Preferred location: CA, IL, PA, TX.   

Role Description:

The Senior Regional Safety Manager will serve as the strategic safety leader for a portfolio of fulfillment centers, providing autonomous leadership of safety culture, risk management, regulatory compliance, and operational safety performance. This role partners directly with Regional Directors, General Managers, Engineering, Product automation, Compliance, and Operations teams to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with evolving fulfillment operations, including robotics, material handling automation, high-density storage systems, transportation operations, dangerous goods, food and beverage, print-on-demand, and emerging merchant verticals. The Senior Regional Safety Manager serves as the primary safety advisor to site leadership and has authority to escalate, challenge, and influence operational decisions that create unacceptable risk exposure. This role drives enterprise-wide risk reduction strategies through cross-functional leadership, ensuring safety considerations are embedded into facility design, automation deployments, operational processes, onboarding programs, and new business initiatives. The Senior Regional Safety Manager serves as the designated safety authority for their assigned region. This role is empowered to identify, escalate, and drive resolution of safety risks, require corrective actions, recommend operational controls, and exercise stop-work authority when conditions present unacceptable risk to employees, contractors, visitors, inventory, equipment, or business operations. The role partners closely with Operations leadership to ensure safety considerations are integrated into all operational decisions and site strategies. This role reports to the Senior Director, Global Safety & Compliance. 

What you’ll do: 

• Oversee safety strategy and risk governance across multiple fulfillment centers with varying operational profiles, including automated facilities, robotics-enabled operations, regulated inventory environments, and emerging business models. 
• Develop and execute regional safety strategies utilizing leading and lagging indicators, risk assessments, behavioral observations, near-miss trends, automation performance data, and operational metrics to proactively prevent incidents. 
• Evaluate safety impacts of new technologies, automation systems, robotics deployments, facility expansions, and operational process changes before implementation. 
• Own regional risk assessments and ensure site-specific controls are established for diverse merchant profiles, including dangerous goods, batteries, food and beverage, cosmetics, print-on-demand operations, and other regulated inventory categories. 
• Run serious incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action programs while driving accountability across operational leadership teams 
• Develop and assist in rollout strategies for adequate, appropriate, and effective safety, health, and environmental, and regulatory training for associates. 
• Provide strategic guidance to Operations leadership on staffing models, workflow design, equipment utilization, and process modifications to ensure safe scaling of business operations. 
• Establish and maintain regional safety governance processes, serve as the designated regional safety authority, and drive accountability for corrective actions, risk mitigation, escalation management, and executive reporting. 
• Serve as the regional subject matter expert for robotics safety, machine guarding, automation risk assessments, lockout/tagout, and human-machine interaction controls. 
• Monitor and evaluate network safety trends, emerging risks, and regulatory developments, recommending strategic investments and risk reduction initiatives to executive leadership. 
• Partner with Partner Operations and third-party fulfillment partners to ensure consistent safety standards, risk controls, and regulatory compliance across the broader fulfillment network. 
• Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary. 

What you’ll bring to the table: 

• Requires 50% travel. 
• 10+ years of progressive safety leadership experience, including multi-site distribution, fulfillment, manufacturing, automation, or logistics environments. 
• Bachelor’s degree is required in Safety Science, Safety Engineering, Safety Management, Risk Management or related field.  
• Professional certifications such as CSP, ASP, CIH, CHMM, ARM, HACCP, PCQI, or equivalent safety and risk management credentials strongly preferred. 
• Demonstrated success building and leading safety management systems across geographically dispersed operations with varying risk profiles and operational complexity. 
• Demonstrated experience leading serious incident investigations involving significant injury potential, regulatory exposure, or operational disruption. 
• Experience supporting highly automated distribution, robotics, or advanced material handling environments. 
• Experience influencing senior operational leaders and driving cultural change across multiple sites. 
• Sound understanding of risk management methodologies, human factors, ergonomics, machine safety, and operational excellence principles. 
• Experience supporting complex fulfillment environments involving dangerous goods, food safety, regulated products, or specialized operational processes. 
• DOT compliance management.  
• Environmental compliance in stormwater, spill prevention, disposal of solid and hazardous waste.  
• Experience utilizing safety management systems, data analytics tools, incident management platforms, and operational reporting systems to drive risk-based decision making 
• Distribution Center or Manufacturing SHE experience with mix of exempt and non-exempt employees at multiple sites of at least 250 people. 
• Experience applying continuous improvement, operational excellence, and risk reduction methodologies within rapidly scaling fulfillment or distribution environments. 
• Experience in a fast paced, dynamic organization. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort interfacing with site leaders.  
• Ability to develop and implement department goals and strategies. 
• Established analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability. 

Perks & Benefits: 

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Basic Life Insurance 
• Paid Maternity/Parental Leave Program 
• Paid Holidays & Flexible Time Off Program 
• Paid Sick Leave  
• Wellness Days (1 day/quarter) 
• 401K Match  
• Comprehensive Benefits Package >>> https://www.shipbob.com/careers/ 
• See Our High-Performing Culture >>> Check us out on Instagram (@lifeatshipbob) 

ShipBob believes in transparency while providing a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance approach. The targeted salary range for this role is $118,396 – $157,862. In addition to base salary, this role includes the opportunity to be eligible for participation in the Company's discretionary bonus plan based on Company's plans and in accordance with Company’s policies. 

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence; therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. 

About You: 

Building the world’s leading full-stack fulfillment platform is challenging work. The problems we solve are complex, the pace is fast, and the bar is high. That means ShipBob’s environment isn’t the right fit for everyone, and that’s okay. If you are ready to take ownership, push boundaries, and grow alongside a team that genuinely supports each other, we would love to hear from you. 

Learn more about our core values and how we perform at a high level in our day-to-day work on our Culture page (https://www.shipbob.com/careers/culture/). 

About Us:  

ShipBob is a leading global supply chain and fulfillment technology platform designed for SMB and Mid-Market ecommerce merchants to provide them access to best-in-class capabilities and to deliver a delightful shopper experience. Merchants can outsource their entire fulfillment operations, utilize ShipBob’s proprietary warehouse management system for in-house fulfillment, or take advantage of a hybrid solution across ShipBob’s dozens of fulfillment center network in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. ShipBob is backed by leading investors like Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and is one of the fastest-growing tech companies headquartered in Chicago. 

At ShipBob, every full-time employee gets access to our best-in-class AI and productivity tools from Day 1 at no cost. This isn't a pilot or a perk for select teams. It's standard for everyone. We believe innovation isn't owned by one department. Whether you're in Talent, Operations, Finance, Engineering, or Customer Success, we expect you to ask: how can this be done better, faster, or smarter? These tools are our investment in your ability to find those answers.

We may use AI-powered tools during our interview process to support things like notetaking and organizing feedback so our teams can stay focused on getting to know you. These tools help create a more consistent and thoughtful experience. That said, every hiring decision is made by a human.

ShipBob provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 
 
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

There is no deadline to apply for this position, as ShipBob accepts applications on an ongoing basis.