Safety & Compliance Manager
Sentry • Watertown, South Dakota • Full Time
Posted on Tue, Jul 21, 2026
Role: Safety & Compliance Manager
Accountability Chart Roles:
- Safety – job sites and factory
- Training
- Employee training and development
- LMA (Leadership + Management = Accountability)
- Process FBA (FBA = followed by all)
Primary Duties
The Safety & Compliance Manager serves as the voice of safety across Sentry - championing our good people by developing programs, training, and processes that create a strong safety culture, ensure compliance, and support an exceptional employee experience.
- Develop safety culture both in the factory and in the field through effective training and mentoring programs.
- Build strong relationships with all employees.
- Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation.
- Develop and partner with Operations leaders to proactively identify and mitigate safety risks.
- Maintain OSHA compliance and readiness for inspections or audits.
- Establish and administer Sentry safety training programs to maintain great culture and talent throughout Sentry.
- Manage the safety and compliance portion of employee orientation to ensure our great employees are set up to succeed at Sentry and understand our culture, core values, and core focus.
- Partner with leaders to ensure critical processes are FBA (Followed By All) through training, accountability, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Conduct jobsite and facility safety audits and observations.
- Track, analyze, and report safety performance metrics and trends.
- Maintain compliance with customer, contractor, insurance, and regulatory safety requirements.
- Other duties as assigned.
What do you need?
- Degree or 6+ years of equivalent experience in Safety/Compliance, Business or a related role.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience conducting OSHA incident investigations and root cause analysis.
- Experience in construction, manufacturing, industrial, or field-service environments.
- Ability to influence and coach leaders at all levels of the organization.
What does Winning look like?
- Safety is viewed as a core value, not a requirement.
- Employees actively identify and address risks before incidents occur.
- Leaders consistently model and reinforce safe behaviors.
- Injury rates consistently outperform industry benchmarks.
- Operations teams view Safety as a trusted partner and resource.
- Make operations lives easy
- Next level personable
- Measure à Manage à Improve
Measurables
- Safety: Company TRIR and no injuries.
- Quality: People listen and retain the things you train and teach.
- Cost: Departments are willing to “pay for” Central Services programs.
- Delivery: Training completion within required timeframes and corrective actions completed on schedule.
- Morale: Safety is viewed as important, positive, and valuable by all employees.