Construction Safety Specialist

The Construction Safety Specialist is responsible for promoting and maintaining a safe work environment on power generation construction projects. This role supports all site safety initiatives by ensuring compliance with OSHA regulations, company safety policies, and project-specific safety requirements. The Safety Specialist conducts field inspections, facilitates safety training, investigates incidents, and works closely with project management, contractors, and craft personnel to identify and mitigate workplace hazards.

The ideal candidate will have experience supporting large-scale industrial or power generation projects and a passion for fostering a strong safety culture that protects personnel, equipment, and project schedules while driving zero-incident performance.

• Participate as a member of project teams to assist others in the development of project scope, project cost estimate, project schedule.
• Participate on site field / scope visits
• Assist others in developing schedule including critical paths
• Assist others in developing detailed construction plans and identify outage requirements to implement new facilities.
• Assist in developing construction contract bid packages; review responses and participates in vendor selection. Attend pre-bid meeting with contractors.
• Participate in design constructability reviews
• Participate in developing a detailed construction plan, which includes a list of outages, exact work dates, and construction resource requirements.
• Ensure that contractors are in compliance with mandated safety training.
• Coordinate with survey and soil boring crews as needed
• Insure all necessary permits from ROW and or Environmental groups are in place prior to the start of construction
• Participate in Contractors Pre-Construction/Safety Kickoff meeting to outline what is expected of contractor
• Ensure contractor inventories all material delivered to site. Work with contract design engineers when deficiencies are noted.
• Safety – Tailboard conference attendance/review, JSA development/review, observations/hazard analysis.
• Perform daily safety observations/hazard analysis, monitor contract crew members, monitor skills abilities of contractors for task, mental and physical state, public exposure, accident/incident reporting –document in company safety management system (AIRSWEB)
• Monitor and report theft or illegal activity
• Insure contractor activities do not compromise system reliability
• Insure expected quality is achieved by contractor in field
• Insure project work is maintainable by Grid Operations at end of project
• Insure project work does not hamper the Grid Operations maintainability of existing equipment at site
• Protect client'sposition in relation to environmental issues
• Coordinate with Environmental Contractors on the sampling and removal of oil from devices taken out of service
• Coordinate with Environmental Group and specified Contractors on all Storm water Management activities.
• Ensure that SWMPP is in installed and maintained as designed
• Ensure that SPCC (Spill Prevention Controls & Countermeasures) are in effect and maintained properly.
• Identifies and addresses all project safety hazards and environmental concerns. Responsible for monitoring and routine reporting on project construction schedule and cost.
• Perform quality assurance checks during construction
• Ensure that SWMS/Asset Data forms, and corresponding photos are completed for all equipment being installed and/or removed.
• Monitor schedule and progress versus requested in service date

• 6+ years of construction safety specialist/coordinator experience
• Working knowledge of OSHA regulations and construction safety standards.
• Experience conducting safety inspections, audits, and incident investigations.
• Ability to identify hazards and implement corrective actions in a fast-paced construction environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Travel to construction sites throughout Mississippi

• Ability to walk active construction sites for extended periods of time, including navigating uneven terrain, gravel, stairs, and temporary access routes.
• Ability to stand, bend, kneel, squat, climb, and reach throughout the workday while conducting site inspections and observations.
• Ability to work at varying heights and in proximity to heavy construction equipment and ongoing operations

• Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull up to 25 pounds of safety equipment, training…