Project Safety Coordinator (PSC)

📍 Location: Houston, TX

📅 Duration: 1 Year (Start: 8/17)

📋 Type: 1099 Contractor

Compensation & Schedule

💰 Pay Rate: $60/hr

🏨 Per Diem: None

🎯 Completion Bonus: $150/month

💵 Pay Frequency: Weekly

⏰ Schedule: 5 Days/Week | 12-Hour Days

📈 Saturday: 8-Hour Shift

⏱️ Approximately 68 Hours Per Week

Why This Opportunity?

Join a general contractor supporting a major university construction project in Houston, TX, involving the construction of a new parking garage and hospital building.

The Project Safety Coordinator (PSC) will provide dedicated safety leadership for the GC while overseeing multiple trades and subcontractors across a complex commercial construction environment. This long-term opportunity is ideal for an experienced commercial building safety professional with a strong background working directly for general contractors on large-scale institutional, healthcare, or similar vertical construction projects.

Required Qualifications

✔ Minimum 7 consecutive years serving as a Project Safety Coordinator (PSC) dedicated solely to commercial building construction projects with a General Contractor (GC)

✔ Current OSHA 500 Construction Trainer Certification

✔ Current First Aid/CPR/AED Certification completed within the last 2 years

✔ Must have maintained all required training and continuing education within the previous 5 years

✔ Strong commercial building construction safety experience

✔ Experience overseeing multiple trades and subcontractors on large-scale construction projects

✔ Must be able to provide documentation verifying all required certifications, qualifying experience, and continuing education for client review and approval prior to mobilization

Preferred Qualifications

⭐ Hospital or healthcare construction experience

⭐ University or higher-education construction experience

⭐ Parking garage or structural concrete construction experience

⭐ Large-scale General Contractor project experience

⭐ CHST, ASP, CSP, or additional BCSP credential

What You'll Be Doing

• Serve as the Project Safety Coordinator for the General Contractor
• Maintain a highly visible field presence across the project
• Provide safety oversight for multiple trades and subcontractors
• Conduct routine site inspections, audits, field observations, and risk assessments
• Monitor contractor compliance with OSHA regulations and project-specific safety requirements
• Review Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), permits, pre-task plans, and high-risk work activities
• Coordinate safety activities with project management, superintendents, subcontractors, and craft personnel
• Support structural, concrete, MEP, and building construction activities
• Monitor fall protection, scaffolding, aerial lifts, material handling, crane operations, and elevated work
• Lead safety meetings, orientations, toolbox talks, and employee training
• Identify unsafe conditions and behaviors and drive timely corrective actions
• Participate in incident investigations and root cause analyses
• Maintain required safety documentation, inspection records, training records, and compliance reports
• Support subcontractor accountability and corrective action follow-up
• Promote a proactive safety culture throughout the project

Technical Knowledge

Candidates should have working knowledge of:

• OSHA Construction Standards
• Commercial Building Construction Safety
• General Contractor Safety Management
• Healthcare & Hospital Construction
• Institutional & University Construction
• Multi-Trade Construction Operations
• Subcontractor Safety Management
• Structural Concrete Construction
• Parking Garage Construction
• Crane & Rigging Operations
• Fall Protection & Elevated Work
• Scaffolding & Ladder Safety
• Aerial Lifts & MEWPs
• Excavation & Trenching
• Electrical & MEP Construction Safety
• Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) Development
• Pre-Task Planning
• Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis
• Safety Auditing & Compliance Monitoring
• Construction Risk Assessment & Mitigation

What Success Looks Like

The ideal candidate is an experienced commercial construction safety leader with a proven history of serving as a dedicated PSC for General Contractors on complex vertical building projects.

Success in this role requires maintaining a strong field presence, effectively coordinating safety across multiple trades, proactively identifying hazards, holding subcontractors accountable, and partnering with project leadership to safely execute a large-scale university and healthcare construction project.

Apply Today

Qualified candidates should submit a resume for immediate review.

Your resume must clearly document at least 7 consecutive years of PSC experience dedicated to commercial building construction projects with a General Contractor. Please ensure qualifying projects, employers, dates, project types, and your specific safety responsibilities are clearly identified.

Candidates must also be prepared to provide documentation of their OSHA 500, First Aid/CPR/AED, required continuing education, and qualifying experience for client review and approval prior to mobilization.

Interviews are actively being scheduled for qualified candidates.