Safety Manager

Did you know that Ryan Lawn & Tree is a $100M+ professional Lawn & Landscape company? We've built one of the most respected lawn and tree care companies in the Midwest, with room to grow across four states — Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. We're on a mission to raise the bar for our entire industry: attracting exceptional people, treating them right, and giving them the opportunity to build a career, not just take a job. It's work that leaves a mark on every community we touch — and on the people who do it.

Safety Manager - Salary range of $105,000 - $115,000 depending on experience.

The Safety Manager leads RYAN’s day-to-day safety operating system as the company scales across service lines, branches, and states. This role turns safety strategy into field execution by owning standards, coordinating risk reduction efforts, and leading the Safety Specialists in partnership with Operations, Learning, HR, and branch leadership. The Safety Manager stays connected to the field while managing the system-level work needed to improve injury performance, control fleet risk, and support growth into new markets, including commercial work.

Reporting structure
Reports to: VP of Human Resources
Direct reports: Fleet & Route Safety Specialist, Field Safety Specialist
Owns workers’ compensation and EMR work directly.

Core responsibilities

• Own the enterprise safety system: policies, standards, reporting expectations, follow-up rhythms, and accountability across branches and departments.
• Lead workers’ compensation and EMR strategy, including claim review, trend analysis, and prevention planning with HR and Operations.
• Build and maintain multi-state safety compliance processes.
• Lead the safety champion structure, safety committee, and core safety meetings.
• Manage the near-miss review and closure process (triage, ownership, corrective action, follow-through).
• Use injury, claims, collision, and near-miss data to identify high-severity patterns and drive corrective action in fleet and field environments.
• Coach and direct the Safety Specialists, setting clear priorities and expectations.
• Partner with branch and department leaders to integrate safety into daily operations.
• Partner with Learning Directors and Learning Specialists so safety is embedded in Foundations Academy and Foundations Academy 2 and reinforced through field coaching, while keeping Safety and Learning as separate reporting lines.
• Support safety due diligence and integration for acquisitions, new states, and new lines of business.