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CORT National Safety Manager in Chantilly, Virginia
Overview
CORT is hiring a full-time Safety Manager. This position will be hybrid, reporting into CORT's corporate office in Chantilly, VA roughly 3 days/week and working from a from a home-office other days of the week when not traveling to CORT locations across the United States. Travel may be extensive at times and could be up to 25%.
The Safety Manager is responsible for developing, leading, and continuously improving the company’s safety programs and culture. This role ensures regulatory compliance, reduces incident frequency and severity, controls claim costs, and strengthens a proactive safety culture that protects employees, contractors, the public, and company assets. The Safety Manager serves as the organization’s subject matter expert for fleet risk, occupational injury prevention, and workers’ compensation program administration.
Yearly Salary: $95,000-$115,000 / year based on experience.
What We Offer
Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision) available on the first of the month after your hire date
401(k) retirement plan with company match
Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays
Company-paid disability and life insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Employee discounts and perks
Participation in company Performance Sharing Plan
Responsibilities
Safety
Make recommendations for improving the safety culture and for remedying any hazardous condition, practice, or potential loss-causing circumstance to comply with appropriate requirements and CORT’s standards.
Consistently visit job sites to enhance communication of company’s commitment to zero injury culture as well as conduct audits and training on best practices.
Recommend solutions to issues, improvement opportunities, or new prevention measures.
Develop company-wide initiatives to address, remedy or prevent workplace injury or risk.
Manages programto ensure thorough investigations of safety incidents, determines probable cause, makes recommendations for corrective action, and facilitates proper resolution. Expert advisor and trainer to field and HR leadership.
Manage and continuously improve the company’s fleet safety strategy, including driver performance, preventable accident reduction, and DOT/FMCSA compliance.
Maintains and revises CORT’s Corporate Safety Manual as necessary to ensure up to date and compliant policies.
Serve as supervisor and mentor for field leadership while helping with development of individual goals for success and improvement.
Serves as a trusted advisor and participates in all workplace safety forums and leadership meetings.
Member of CORT’s safety team. Provides technical and administrative support to the safety committee.
Member of CORT’s Best Demonstrated Practices group to advise and make recommendations in the area of safety.
Workers Compensation
Own and administer the company’s workers’ compensation program, including injury reporting, claims management, and return-to-work strategies.
Serve as the primary point of contact with insurance carriers, third-party administrators (TPAs), brokers, and legal counsel.
Oversee injury investigations and root cause analyses to prevent recurrence and reduce claim severity.
Partner with HR and Operations to develop and manage early return-to-work, modified duty, and Monitor and manage workers’ compensation costs, experience modifiers (EMR), reserves, and claim trends.
Ensure compliance with all state workers’ compensation laws, posting requirements, and reporting obligations.
Regulatory Compliance
Ensures company adherance to FMCSA/DOT regulations and fleet safety protocols.
Ensures company adherance to California safety laws and regulations.
Ensure the workplace is in compliance with OSHA and other state, local or industry specific regulations and that periodic safety audits are conducted.
Lead and/or review responses to OSHA investigations, citations, and negotiations and coordinate with designated internal and external representatives.
Reporting and Measurement
Report on health and safety awareness, issues and statistics.
Analyze and interpret data analytics to provide strategic enhancements tied to financial outcomes.
Develop systematic process to collect data and analyze the causes of accidents and generate required reporting.
Prepare written correspondence, analyses, reports, and memos as needed.
Training and Education
Conduct training and presentations for health and safety matters and accident prevention.
Inspect equipment, facilities, and machinery to observe possible unsafe conditions.
Investigate accidents or incidents to discover causes and handle worker’s compensation claims.
Facilitate training classes/seminar, as needed.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degreerequired. Degree in Health and Safety, Safety Management or Engineering, Environmental Health, or related field preferred.
Minimum of 7–10 years of progressive safety leadership experience, with significant fleet or driver safety oversight.
Ten (10) years of experience in a Safety leadership role.
Proven leadership experience in FMCSA/DOT regulated fleet environments, including direct ownership of driver safety programs, accident reduction strategies, and claim performance improvement.
Experience selecting, implementing, and monitoring telematics systems, including GPS, ELD, camera, and driver behavior platforms. Demonstrated experience translating telematics and incident data into actionable reporting, trend analysis, and targeted interventions to improve loss performance.
Extensive knowledge of current company safety policies and applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards.
OSHA 30 preferred.
Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or similar highly preferred.
Skilled in root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions required.
About CORT
CORT, a part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is the nation's leading provider of transition services, including furniture rental for home and office, event furnishings, destination services, apartment locating, touring and other services. With more than 100 offices, showrooms and clearance centers across the United States, operations in the United Kingdom and partners in more than 80 countries around the world, no other furniture rental company can match CORT's breadth of services.
For more information on CORT, visit https://www.cort.com .
Working for CORT
For more information on careers at CORT, visit https://careers.cort.com/
CORT participates in the E-Verify program.
EEO/AA Employer/Vets/Disability
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis; there is no set deadline to apply to this position. When it is determined that new applications will no longer be accepted, due to the positions being filled or a high volume of applicants has been received, this job advertisement will be removed.
For City of San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, CORT will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
For City of Los Angeles applicants: CORT will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
For County of Los Angeles applicants: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
For Columbia, South Carolina applicants: This position is subject to a background check for any convictions directly related to its duties and responsibilities. Only job-related convictions will be considered and will not automatically disqualify the candidate.