Assistant Safety Coordinator

Nelson Stark Company is hiring an Assistant Safety Coordinator to support our Safety Department across commercial plumbing, site development, excavation, and underground utilities work throughout Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, and the Tri-state region.

This hands-on role reports directly to our corporate safety director and is responsible for helping protect our crews in the field and on active jobsites. You will assist with inspections, training support, incident follow-up, documentation, and day-to-day implementation of safety programs for excavation, site utilities, commercial plumbing, pre-fabrication, and service operations.

If you are safety-minded, organized, and comfortable moving between office work and construction environments, this is a strong opportunity to grow with a company known for quality work and a serious safety culture.

Since 1931, Nelson Stark has delivered commercial plumbing and site development as one coordinated operation. Our team’s handle:

• Mass excavation and commercial site development
• Underground site utilities (storm, sanitary, water, and natural gas)
• Commercial and service plumbing
• Pre-fabrication and project support services

We serve healthcare, higher education, industrial, municipal, retail, logistics, and large commercial projects across Cincinnati, Dayton, and the surrounding OH / KY / IN market. With a large union-trained workforce and a fleet of heavy earthmoving equipment, safety is not a slogan here — it is how we operate every day.

Nelson Stark Company is hiring an Assistant Safety Coordinator to support our Safety Department across commercial plumbing, site development, excavation, and underground utilities work throughout Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, and the Tri-state region.

This hands-on role reports directly to our corporate safety director and is responsible for helping protect our crews in the field and on active jobsites. You will assist with inspections, training support, incident follow-up, documentation, and day-to-day implementation of safety programs for excavation, site utilities, commercial plumbing, pre-fabrication, and service operations.

If you are safety-minded, organized, and comfortable moving between office work and construction environments, this is a strong opportunity to grow with a company known for quality work and a serious safety culture.

• Assist safety leadership with rollout and day-to-day administration of company safety programs, policies, and procedures across plumbing and site development operations.
• Support scheduled and unscheduled safety inspections of jobsites, excavations, utility installations, plumbing work areas, shops, yards, and equipment; document findings and help track corrective actions to closure.
• Help reinforce safe practices related to excavation and trenching, underground utilities, heavy equipment, confined space, fall protection, hot work, lockout/tagout, PPE, and traffic/pedestrian controls as applicable.
• Assist with new-hire safety orientation, toolbox talks, stretch-and-flex support, and refresher training for field crews, operators, plumbers, and support staff.
• Maintain accurate safety records, including incident and near-miss reports, inspection checklists, training attendance, JSAs/JHAs, permits, and related documentation.
• Help monitor jobsite conditions and coach crews on safe work practices in a professional, respectful manner.
• Participate in safety meetings and safety committee activities; prepare materials, take notes, and track action items as assigned.
• Help maintain SDS information, safety bulletin boards, first-aid/AED readiness, emergency response resources, and jobsite safety postings.
• Coordinate with superintendents, foremen,…