Owner's Representative Safety Manager

Location: Charleston, SC

Duration: 2 Years (Immediate Need)

Type: 1099 Contractor

CompensationSchedule

Pay Rate: $70/hr

Per Diem: $150/Day (7 Days Per Week)

Completion Bonus: $150/month

Pay Frequency: Weekly

Schedule: Monday-Friday | 40 Hours Per Week | Day Shift

Why This Opportunity?

Represent the owner on a large-scale, mission-critical data center construction project in Charleston, SC. This long-term role provides the opportunity to influence safety performance at the project level while providing independent oversight of general contractors, subcontractors, and multiple trades throughout construction.

Unlike a traditional contractor safety role, this position serves as the owner's on-site safety representative, evaluating contractor performance, identifying systemic risk, driving accountability, and ensuring construction activities align with the owner's safety expectations and project standards.

Required Qualifications

5-10 years of construction safety experience

Data center or mission-critical construction experience required

Prior Owner's Representative / Owner's Safety Oversight experience on a data center project required

Experience providing safety oversight across general contractors, subcontractors, and multiple trades

Strong understanding of construction risk management and contractor safety performance

Ability to effectively communicate with ownership, project executives, general contractors, safety leadership, and field personnel

Preferred Qualifications

CHST, CSP, GSP, or other BCSP credential

OSHA 30 Construction Certification

OSHA 500 or OSHA 510 Certification

Current First Aid / CPR / AED Certification

NFPA 70E familiarity

Experience supporting large-scale hyperscale or mission-critical construction programs

What You'll Be Doing

• Serve as the owner's on-site safety representative throughout construction
• Provide independent oversight of general contractor and subcontractor safety performance
• Conduct routine site walks, field observations, audits, and risk assessments
• Evaluate contractor implementation of project safety plans, policies, and procedures
• Identify systemic and high-risk safety exposures and drive proactive mitigation strategies
• Monitor leading indicators, trends, corrective actions, and contractor safety performance
• Participate in project safety meetings, planning sessions, and leadership discussions
• Review Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), pre-task plans, permits, lift plans, and other high-risk work documentation
• Provide oversight of high-risk construction activities across multiple trades
• Review serious incidents, near misses, investigations, root causes, and corrective actions
• Verify corrective actions are effectively implemented and sustained
• Partner with ownership, construction leadership, and contractor safety teams to improve project-wide safety performance
• Identify gaps between written safety programs and actual field execution
• Support continuous improvement of the overall project safety program
• Maintain professional documentation, observations, reports, and safety performance records

Technical Knowledge

Candidates should have working knowledge of:

• Owner's Representative Safety Oversight
• Data CenterMission-Critical Construction
• OSHA Construction Standards
• ContractorSubcontractor Safety Management
• Multi-Trade Construction Risk Management
• Electrical ConstructionNFPA 70E Awareness
• Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)Hazardous-Energy Control
• EnergizationCommissioning Risk Awareness
• Crane, RiggingCritical Lift Operations
• Fall ProtectionElevated Work
• ExcavationTrenching Operations
• MechanicalElectrical Equipment Installation
• Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)Pre-Task Planning
• Incident InvestigationRoot Cause Analysis
• Leading IndicatorsSafety Performance Metrics
• Corrective Action Management
• Construction Risk AssessmentMitigation

What Success Looks Like

The ideal candidate is an experienced, highly credible safety leader who can represent the owner's interests while building productive relationships with general contractors, subcontractors, project executives, and field safety teams.

Success in this role requires the ability to see beyond individual compliance issues and identify broader project risks, challenge contractors constructively, verify that corrective actions are effective, and influence safety performance across multiple organizations.

The successful candidate will help ensure that safety is proactively integrated into project planning and execution throughout the full lifecycle of this mission-critical data center project.

Apply Today

Qualified candidates should submit a resume for immediate review.

If you have experience directly related to this role, please ensure it is clearly reflected on your resume, particularly your Owner's Representative safety experience and data center/mission-critical construction experience, including the scale of projects, contractors and trades overseen, high-risk activities supported, and your role in driving project-wide safety performance.

Interviews are actively being scheduled for qualified candidates.