Safety Manager

About the role

Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking a Safety Manager to support a multi-year construction project at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC. The project involves significant civil, mechanical, electrical, underground utility, piping, and site infrastructure construction.

Responsibilities

• Manage implementation of the project safety and health program across all construction activities.
• Provide field leadership and oversight to ensure compliance with OSHA, DOE, site-specific, and project safety requirements.
• Perform routine field inspections and audits to identify unsafe conditions, behaviors, and work practices.
• Provide safety oversight for excavation and trenching, heavy equipment, lifting and rigging, demolition, electrical work, welding/hot work, confined spaces, and underground utility construction.
• Review Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), Activity Hazard Analyses (AHAs), work plans, permits, and other safety documentation.
• Coordinate safety requirements with Construction Management, Superintendents, subcontractors, and project leadership.
• Lead or support incident investigations, root cause evaluations, corrective actions, and lessons learned.
• Monitor subcontractor safety performance and ensure identified deficiencies are promptly corrected.
• Track safety observations, incidents, corrective actions, and performance metrics.
• Conduct and/or coordinate safety meetings, orientations, toolbox talks, and required training.
• Maintain required safety documentation and support client, DOE, and project safety audits and assessments.
• Exercise stop-work authority when an imminent danger or unacceptable safety condition exists.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of construction safety experience, including safety leadership experience on industrial, heavy civil, utility, or large-scale construction projects.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA construction safety requirements and industry safety practices.
• Experience providing safety oversight for high-hazard construction activities.
• Experience with incident investigation, corrective actions, field inspections, and safety program implementation.
• OSHA 30-Hour Construction certification.
• Must be a US Citizen.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• Previous DOE, nuclear, federal, or highly regulated construction experience.
• Experience with DOE construction safety requirements.
• Previous Savannah River Site or other DOE site experience.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST), or similar professional safety certification.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance.
• Pre- and post-tax 401(k) retirement account with Company matching contributions and 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning day 1.

About the company

Founded in 2003, Edgewater Technical Associates, LLC (Edgewater) is a New Mexico-based small business headquartered in Los Alamos, NM, with five regional offices across the United States. Edgewater provides fixed-price construction projects, engineering, and technical services for the Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Canadian Commercial Nuclear Industry, and private sector commercial contractors involved in nuclear, high-hazard, or complex operations.