About this role
Construction Safety Manager
📍 Location: Conesville, OH
📅 Duration: 12+ Months (Immediate Need)
📋 Type: 1099 Contractor
Compensation & Schedule
💰 Pay Rate: $56/hr (Local) | $52.50/hr (Non-Local)
🏨 Per Diem: $125/Day (7 Days Per Week for Candidates Residing 50+ Miles From Project)
🎯 Completion Bonus: $150/month
💵 Pay Frequency: Weekly
⏰ Schedule: Monday-Saturday | 6:00 AM - 4:00 PM | 6x10s
📈 60 Hours Per Week
Why This Opportunity?
Join a structural steel contractor supporting a large-scale data center construction project in Conesville, OH. This is a long-term opportunity for an experienced safety professional with a strong background in structural steel erection, ironworker safety, crane and rigging operations, and high-risk construction activities.
Required Qualifications
✔ CHST or CSP Certification through BCSP
✔ Minimum 5 years of structural steel construction safety experience
Preferred Qualifications
⭐ Data center or mission-critical construction experience
⭐ Experience leading or providing direction to subcontractor safety coordinators
⭐ Critical lift and lift-planning experience
⭐ Fall Protection Competent Person experience
⭐ Case management and return-to-work coordination experience
⭐ Experience managing safety programs on large-scale construction projects
What You'll Be Doing
- Oversee the structural steel contractor's overall site safety program
- Provide safety leadership for steel erection and ironworker activities
- Manage and coordinate subcontractor safety coordinators
- Maintain a highly visible field presence throughout active steel operations
- Provide oversight for crane, rigging, hoisting, and lifting activities
- Review lift plans and coordinate high-risk lifting operations
- Monitor fall protection and elevated steel erection activities
- Participate in planning and development for high-risk construction activities
- Conduct site inspections, audits, observations, and risk assessments
- Review JHAs, pre-task plans, permits, and high-risk work plans
- Coordinate safety requirements with field supervision, subcontractors, and project leadership
- Support case and care management following workplace incidents
- Lead or participate in incident investigations and corrective action development
- Track safety deficiencies and ensure corrective actions are completed
- Maintain required safety documentation, reporting, and administrative records
- Coach field personnel and subcontractor safety teams to drive consistent safety performance
Technical Knowledge
Candidates should have strong working knowledge of:
- OSHA Construction Standards
- OSHA Subpart R - Steel Erection
- Structural Steel & Ironworker Safety
- Crane & Rigging Operations
- Critical Lift Planning
- Hoisting & Material Handling
- Fall Protection & Elevated Work
- Steel Erection Sequencing
- Temporary Bracing & Stability
- Aerial Lifts & MEWPs
- Welding, Cutting & Hot Work
- High-Risk Activity Planning
- Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)
- Subcontractor Safety Management
- Incident Investigation & Corrective Actions
- Case & Care Management
- Construction Safety Administration
- Data Center Construction Safety
What Success Looks Like
The ideal candidate is an experienced structural steel safety professional who can combine strong technical field knowledge with safety leadership and program management.
Success in this role requires effectively managing subcontractor safety performance, anticipating risks associated with steel erection and lifting operations, coordinating high-risk activities before work begins, and maintaining a strong field presence throughout the project.
This position requires someone who can confidently engage with ironworkers, safety coordinators, field supervision, and project leadership while driving consistent safety execution across a fast-paced data center construction environment.
Apply Today
Qualified candidates should submit a resume for immediate review.
Your resume must clearly demonstrate at least 5 years of structural steel construction safety experience. Please identify specific experience with steel erection, ironworker operations, cranes and rigging, fall protection, high-risk activity planning, and subcontractor safety management.
Candidates should also clearly list their current CHST or CSP certification.
Interviews are actively being scheduled for qualified candidates.
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