Site Safety Manager

The posting, as Glydways wrote it

Who we are

Glydways is reimagining what public transit can be. We believe that mobility is the gateway to opportunity—connecting people to housing, education, employment, commerce, and care. By making transportation more accessible, affordable, and sustainable, we empower communities to thrive and unlock economic and social prosperity.

Our mission is to revolutionize transit with a solution that delivers high capacity, exceptional user experiences, unmatched affordability, and minimal environmental impact.

The Glydways system is a groundbreaking network of carbon-neutral, interconnected transit pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. Operating 24/7 with on-demand access, it offers personalized and efficient mobility—without the burden of heavy upfront infrastructure costs or ongoing taxpayer subsidies.

With Glydways, we’re building more than a transportation system; we’re creating a future where everyone, everywhere, has the freedom to move.

About the Project

The Glydways Atlanta ATN Pilot Project is the first passenger-carrying Automated Transit Network (ATN) deployed by Glydways in the United States, running from the Airport SkyTrain at the Georgia International Convention Center to the Gateway Center Arena. It spans system integration and testing, commissioning, and pilot passenger service alongside project sponsors, contractors, the operating organization, local authorities, and emergency responders.

Glydways has established an independent Safety, Quality and Compliance organization, applying established transit and rail safety standards to a new class of automated technology. On the Atlanta site, the safety function owns the site safety management system, confirms that required controls are implemented before work and service proceed, and works in close partnership with Test and Commissioning, Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, contractors, local authorities, and emergency responders to sustain them. The same organization develops and maintains the safety case that certifies the system for passenger service.

About the Role

The Site Safety Manager is responsible for the safety of the operation of the transit system and personnel on site. The Site Safety Manager also supports system reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) and certification activities for the Glydways Atlanta ATN Pilot Project and other projects. The role covers the path from late-stage design through integration testing, commissioning, operations with passenger service, maintenance, modification, recovery, and emergency response.

The role reports directly to the Atlanta ATN Pilot Project Director for site delivery and coordination, and functionally to the Glydways Safety Lead within Safety, Quality and Compliance for safety direction, competence, and assurance. Independent of operations, the Site Safety Manager performs site safety audits, restricts access or return to service, stops work o
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• Ability to work with Quality to control site safety SOPs, maintain the ATL Site Hazard Log, verify controls, and conduct regular audits.
• Able to work with the Functional Safety team to implement operational restrictions and escalate site conditions or events that may affect them.
• Available onsite and able to complete training and certification required by approved pilot plans, the site safety program, and applicable Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) requirements.

Nice to Haves

• Experience applying EN 50126.
• Experience managing site safety for rail transit, automated people mover systems, or comparable safety-critical systems, across system integration and testing, commissioning, passenger operations, and maintenance.
• Experience working with the SSOA, FTA, or other transit regulatory body, and familiarity with their safety management requirements.
• Experience coordinating with emergency responders, airport stakeholders, and multi-employer sites.
• Experience with job hazard analysis and safe systems of work, such as permits to work, lockout/tagout, confined space, energized work, and work at height.
• Comfort with complex autonomous systems, with self-driving vehicle experience preferred.
• Experience with reliability, availability, and maintainability analysis methods and metrics.
• Experience with cybersecurity as it applies to safety-critical systems.
• Working knowledge of safety analysis, requirements management, and collaboration tools such as Medini, Jama, Jira, Confluence, and Python.
• Atlanta and Georgia operating experience.

Glydways provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.