Gate Access Watcher | Totowa NJ/Northern NJ

About the role

We’re looking for an Entry-level Gate Access Watcher in North NJ to be a critical set of eyes at the jobsite. If you’re alert, dependable, organized, and safety-minded, this is a great opportunity to get your foot in the door and make an impact. You’ll help monitor site access and support a safe, secure work environment for crews working around energized substations and switchyards. The Gate Access Watcher is responsible for supporting site access control by verifying the identity and required credentials of personnel entering designated sites. The Gate Access Watcher ensures that individuals accessing the site possess the appropriate identification, safety, security, and access badges and are authorized to enter. The Gate Access Watcher serves as a visible site representative and works with contractor personnel, project teams, safety personnel, and security personnel to address access, identification, and credentialing issues. No extensive experience required—just the right attitude, attention to detail, and commitment to safety.

Overview HazTek Safety Management is a full-service, objective safety partner, founded in 1997. The health, safety and well-being of employees and companies is our highest priority. We offer full-time employment, stability, competitive benefits, professional development, travel, diverse safety experiences, management support and the added benefit of working with a network of over 275 full-time HazTek safety professionals.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and control site access in accordance with established site requirements.
• Verify the identity of personnel requesting access to the site.
• Request and verify required identification, safety, security, and access badges.
• Confirm that personnel have the appropriate authorization to access the site.
• Prevent unauthorized individuals from accessing the site.
• Escalate access or authorization concerns to the appropriate project, safety, or security personnel.
• Maintain awareness of individuals entering and exiting the site.
• Request contractor personnel to present their ISN badges upon mobilization to the site, during tailboards and similar meetings, and as necessary throughout site activities.
• Scan ISN badges using the ISN mobile application to verify that badges are valid.
• Confirm that required qualifications reflected in the worker's ISN profile are appropriate for the assigned work.
• Coordinate with the contractor, project team, and safety team to resolve ISN badge or qualification issues.
• Escalate unresolved issues as appropriate and exercise Stop The Job authority when required by site procedures.
• Request contractor personnel to present applicable P