Overview As Safety & Health Officer on a multi-year border infrastructure project, you ensure site safety and regulatory compliance across heavy civil works. You will apply EM 385-1-1 standards and oversee safety for subcontractors, inspections, and high-risk activities. Your role supports the project's mission by preventing incidents on a complex, design-build border construction program. This opportunity offers hands-on leadership in a high-stakes environment with significant federal requirements.
Responsibilities- Lead safety program implementation for a large-scale heavy civil construction project
- Apply EM 385-1-1 requirements and AHAs, coordinating inspections
- Oversee subcontractor safety performance and daily safety operations
- Manage excavation, heavy equipment use, and lifting operations safety
- Ensure OSHA 30-compliant practices and regulatory adherence
- Document safety records and support incident investigations
Key requirements- Minimum 10 years of construction safety experience
- Must have served as SSHO on at least two federal design-build projects, each valued at $5 million or more
- Strong heavy-civil construction experience
- OSHA 30 required
- Experience implementing EM 385-1-1 requirements, AHAs, inspections, subcontractor safety oversight, excavation, heavy equipment, lifting operations and other heavy-civil hazards
- Border infrastructure, roadway, utility, or large linear civil construction experience preferred
- OSHA 30
- EM 385-1-1
- AHAs
- subcontractor safety oversight
- inspections
- excavation safety
