• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

National Network for the Transportation Workforce

  • Home
  • About NNTW
    • About NNTW
    • Contact Us
  • Workforce Initiatives
    • Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • National Transportation Career Pathways Initiative
    • Women in Transportation
    • Road Safety Champion Program
    • Empowering the New Mobility Workforce
  • Career Exploration
    • Transportation Career Pathways
    • Interviews with Transportation Professionals
    • Environmental Career Path Profiles
    • Careers in Computer & Data Science
  • News & Events
  • Resource Center
    • Labor Market Analysis
    • Education & Training
    • Workforce Development
    • The Clean Transportation Workforce
    • Digital Storytelling: The Value of StoryMaps
    • Environmental Career Competencies
  • Mobility Matters
  • Volpe ITS PCB
You are here: Home / Archives for Organizational Skills

Organizational Skills

Maintenance Safety Manager

A Highway Maintenance Safety Manager is responsible for oversight of maintenance activities in a given administrative district, including overseeing roadway repair, maintenance, and improvement projects, winter maintenance operations, and facilities and asset management. The Maintenance Safety Manager supervises maintenance staff; roadway monitoring, inspection, and permitting processes; disaster and emergency response; and roadway inspection and hazardous materials procedures. As such, execution of duties has a direct impact on the safety of both maintenance workers and the traveling public. Maintenance Safety Managers provide leadership on road safety promotion by means of maintenance activities and practices. Safety-related competencies include knowledge of systemic safety principles to assess risk, develop safety plans, and promote, implement, and evaluate maintenance impact on road user safety.

Other responsibilities typically include:

  • Identify hazards and control measures for maintenance activities.
  • Develop incident management and other safety plans based on risk assessment, incorporating knowledge of safety regulations and compliance measures.
  • Ensure effective traffic control techniques are in place to safeguard workers and those passing through a work zone or site during maintenance activities.
  • Implement effective road safety countermeasures through maintenance activities.
  • Ensure maintenance staff are able to identify, report, and/or remediate road safety deficiencies.
  • Promote a positive organizational safety culture.

Download this page as a PDF.

Copyright © 2023 National Network for the Transportation Workforce • Contact Us