Principal Consultant, Safety

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the owner's Safety representative across the capital project lifecycle, providing oversight, verification, coaching, and escalation while contractors retain responsibility for execution and control implementation.
• Embed Safety in Design through planning, engineering, constructability, PHA/PSM-informed reviews, and loss prevention assessments to identify and mitigate construction, commissioning, start-up, and operational risks.
• Define EHS requirements for scopes of work, bid packages, execution plans, safety plans, phase gates, contractor onboarding, emergency response, LOTO, and fire protection expectations.
• Design and execute project EHS governance processes, including risk reviews, assurance routines, site audits, escalation pathways, corrective action tracking, and management reporting.
• Align project, engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, contractor, and client EH&S teams on safety expectations, accountabilities, communication protocols, and incident-free execution.
• Review contractor safe work documentation, including JHAs, pre-task plans, permits, lift plans, energy isolation/LOTO plans, training records, toolbox talks, and emergency response plans.
• Conduct owner-side field observations and site audits to verify critical controls, identify hazards, assess contractor conformance, and escalate corrective actions.
• Participate in daily planning and pre-shift meetings to review work activities, site conditions, SIMOPS/interfaces, permit needs, and safety-critical controls.
• Track and communicate EHS observations, audit findings, contractor trends, corrective actions, leading indicators, and recommended actions.
• Support commissioning, start-up, and turnover readiness by verifying safety planning for new equipment, energized systems, LOTO, operational interfaces, permits, emergency preparedness, and transition to operations.
• Support closeout by confirming safety documentation, lessons learned, corrective action closure, demobilization controls, and transfer of EHS records.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in safety, occupational health and safety, engineering, construction management, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Preferred: CHST, ASP, CSP, OSHA 30, confined space, fall protection/prevention, or equivalent certifications/training.
• Preferred: Complex capital project experience in pharmaceutical, high-tech, chemical, LNG, manufacturing, or similar sectors.