About this role
Construction Safety Manager
📍 Location: Lebanon, IN
📅 Duration: 1-2 Years (Start: 8/17)
📋 Type: 1099 Contractor
Compensation & Schedule
💰 Pay Rate: $56/hr
🏨 Per Diem: $125/Day (7 Days Per Week)
🎯 Completion Bonus: $150/month
💵 Pay Frequency: Weekly
⏰ Schedule: Monday-Saturday | 8-10 Hour Days
📈 Sundays as Project Needs Require
Why This Opportunity?
Join a contractor supporting the early site development phase of a new data center construction project in Lebanon, IN. This is a long-term opportunity providing hands-on safety oversight for land preparation, mass excavation, trenching, grading, and heavy civil construction activities.
The Construction Safety Manager will maintain a strong field presence while working directly with heavy equipment operators, craft personnel, and project supervision to identify hazards, ensure OSHA compliance, and support safe execution of site development activities throughout the project.
Required Qualifications
✔ BCSP Certification CHST, CSP, ASP, or SMP
✔ OSHA 30 Construction Certification
✔ Minimum 5 years of construction safety experience
Preferred Qualifications
⭐ Data center or mission-critical construction experience
⭐ Mass excavation and site development experience
⭐ Excavation/Trenching Competent Person experience
⭐ Heavy equipment safety experience
⭐ Underground utility construction experience
⭐ CHST, ASP, CSP, or other BCSP credential
What You'll Be Doing
- Oversee daily safety activities for site development and land preparation operations
- Maintain a highly visible field presence throughout active construction areas
- Monitor mass excavation, trenching, grading, and earthmoving activities
- Provide safety oversight for heavy equipment and mobile equipment operations
- Conduct routine site inspections, audits, field observations, and hazard assessments
- Verify excavation protective systems, access/egress, spoil placement, and site conditions
- Monitor underground utility and trenching activities
- Review Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), permits, and pre-task plans
- Ensure compliance with OSHA regulations and project-specific safety requirements
- Coordinate safety activities with project supervision, equipment operators, and craft personnel
- Identify unsafe conditions and implement timely corrective actions
- Participate in incident investigations and root cause analyses
- Maintain required safety documentation, inspection records, and compliance reports
- Provide field coaching and reinforce safe work practices
- Promote a proactive safety culture throughout the project
Technical Knowledge
Candidates should have working knowledge of:
- OSHA Construction Standards
- Excavation & Trenching Safety
- OSHA Subpart P
- Mass Excavation & Earthmoving Operations
- Grading & Site Development
- Heavy Equipment & Mobile Equipment Safety
- Excavation Protective Systems
- Soil Classification
- Underground Utility Construction
- Heavy Civil Construction
- Data Center Site Development
- Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)
- Safety Inspections & Field Observations
- Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis
- Contractor Safety Management
- Construction Risk Assessment & Mitigation
What Success Looks Like
The ideal candidate is a field-focused construction safety professional with strong excavation, trenching, grading, and heavy civil experience who is comfortable working around active earthmoving operations and heavy equipment.
Success in this role requires maintaining a strong field presence, proactively identifying changing site conditions and excavation hazards, effectively communicating with operators and supervision, and ensuring site development activities are completed safely and in compliance with OSHA requirements.
Apply Today
Qualified candidates should submit a resume for immediate review.
If you have experience directly related to the project's scope of work, please ensure it is clearly reflected on your resume, including specific experience with mass excavation, trenching, grading, earthmoving, heavy equipment, underground utilities, site development, heavy civil construction, or data center projects.
Interviews are actively being scheduled for qualified candidates.
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