Director of Construction Safety

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Location: This is a hybrid role requiring candidates to reside in Southern California within LA, OC, or IE. Due to the travel requirements of the Director of Construction Safety role, candidates must be comfortable with frequent travel throughout Southern and Northern California, as well as occasional out-of-state travel.

Background Check Requirement

As part of our hiring process, Frontline Wildfire Defense conducts comprehensive background checks for all new hires. These checks typically cover the past 7–10 years and may include employment and education verification. For roles that require work in the field, driving record verification is also required. Employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of these background checks.

About Frontline Wildfire Defense

Founded in 2017 by landscape ecologist and fire mitigation expert Harry Statter, Frontline developed the first fully integrated wildfire defense system to stop the leading cause of home loss in wildfires: ember-driven ignition. The system combines exterior sprinklers, full-coverage design, and connected software for remote monitoring and response, allowing homes to protect themselves long after families evacuate or infrastructure fails.

Proven effective during the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, 96% of homes with Frontline systems survived. That success has earned top industry recognition, including Frontline being recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions 2025 in the Green Tech category and receiving the PCBC Gold Nugget Award for “Most Innovative Housing Concept” and the Best of IBS Award for “Best Home Technology.”

As wildfires grow hotter and more frequent, our vision is to give people the tools and strategies to live safely with fire. We’re building a mission-driven team creating real-world solutions in wildfire safety and climate tech.

About This Opportunity

We are seeking a builder-minded Director of Construction Safety to lead safety across Frontline’s rapidly expanding residential and commercial construction and installation operations. As our senior safety leader, you will set the strategy, build the multi-state safety program, and lead the team that carries it out in the field.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will partner with the In-House Counsel, Operations, Project Management, Field Leadership, and Finance to make safety a core operating pillar as we scale nationally. You will have full stop-work authority and the mandate to build the safety function the right way.

This role is ideal for a construction safety leader who has already built a safety program at a multi-location construction company and is ready to do it again, with more ownership, at a mission-driven company protecting homes and communities from wildfire.

What the work looks like: Frontline field teams and a network of subcontractors install and service Frontline systems on residential and commercial & industrial (C&I) properties, from occupied homes to active commercial job sites and new builds. The work includes daily rooftop and ladder access, plumbing and low-voltage electrical tie-ins, trenching and water-line work where required, and material handling, often in hot, remote, and wildfire-prone terrain.

What Success Looks Like in Your First Year

• First 90 days: Assess current practices, audit active job sites and subcontractors, and deliver a written safety strategy, gap analysis, and 12-month roadmap to the executive team.
• By 6 months: Core written programs are live (IIPP, fall protection, ladder safety, heat illness, wildfire smoke); subcontractor prequalification and onboarding are launched.
• By 12 months: An audit program is running across all regions, a safety KPI dashboard is reported monthly to leadership, all active subcontractors are qualified and scored, and a team and budget plan is in place for the next stage of growth.

Key Responsibilities