Owner is seeking an experienced Site Safety Manager (Owner’s Representative) to provide on-site safety oversight for a large multi-year power generation construction project. This position represents the Owner’s interests and is responsible for monitoring and verifying contractor compliance, assessing the effectiveness of safety programs in practice, and influencing safe work execution across all project activities.
The Site Safety Manager is a field based role focused on risk identification, contractor engagement, and verifying the effectiveness of safety systems, with an emphasis on serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention during high risk wind construction activities. This position will verify, monitor, and reinforce that EPC contractors and subcontractors effectively plan and execute work in compliance with applicable regulations, contractual safety requirements, and Owner safety expectations.
This position does not direct construction means and methods and does not directly manage craft labor or contractor safety staff. Instead, the Site Safety Manager will function as a knowledgeable, visible field presence who set clear expectations, identifies risk, and escalates concerns to ensure serious injuries and incidents are prevented.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 5–7 years of construction safety experience, with experience on power generation, heavy-industrial, energy large-scale projects preferred.
- Professional safety certification (CHST, ASP, CSP strongly preferred).
- Demonstrated experience in an owner-representative role.
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority.
- Strong working knowledge high-risk construction activities.
- Experience reviewing construction safety programs, JSAs, lifting plans, confined space activities, and other critical work plans.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.