Transmission Distribution and Substation Safety Professional

• Industry: Electrical Distribution, Transmission, and Substations
• Duration: 6 Months
• Location:
  
  Denver, CO
• Pay Rate: $60-$65 depending on experience + GSA Rate Per Diem
• Start Date:
  
  December 2026

Highly experienced Safety Professional with background in Electrical Distribution, Transmission or Substations, and experience conducting Safety Audits.

The Third Party Safety Observer conducts scheduled and unannounced field observations across electrical utility operations. The position serves as an educator, collaborator, and learning partner.

The Safety Observer must understand work as it is actually performed, recognize successful practices, verify critical controls, identify serious exposures and system vulnerabilities, and recommend practical improvements based on field conditions and applicable requirements.

The successful candidate must combine advanced utility knowledge with demonstrated safety leadership experience.

The candidate may come from a craft, operations, or safety background, but must be able to assess utility work objectively, coach respectfully, and communicate effectively with field crews and management.

• Conduct field observations within the candidate's qualified discipline involving substation, distribution, or transmission construction, maintenance, testing, and operations.
• Observe applicable overhead and underground work activities based on the candidate's verified experience and assigned operational coverage.
• Evaluate prejob planning, work methods, energy sources, grounding, energized work boundaries, worker positioning, equipment use, communication, environmental conditions, and responses to changing field conditions.
• Verify high energy critical controls through direct observation, technically informed questions, and available evidence.
• Engage journeymen, craft personnel, foremen, general foremen, supervisors, project leaders, contractors, and safety professionals through respectful listening, coaching, and constructive feedback.
• Recognize and document effective planning, reliable controls, teamwork, worker involvement, safety leadership, and other positive field practices.
• Identify serious exposures, recurring patterns, human performance conditions, system barriers, and practical improvement opportunities.
• Complete timely, accurate, and objective electronic Safety Observation Reports, known as eSORs.
• Support corrective action follow up and verify whether agreed improvements are effective under actual field conditions.
• Immediately communicate imminent danger, serious exposure, injury, illness, regulatory concerns, or critical control failures through the approved escalation process.

• CUSP
• TWIC Card
• Valid Driver's License
• At least five years of directly relevant electrical utility field experience involving substation, distribution, transmission, or electrical utility safety.