Utility Safety Superintendent

Gregory Electric • Columbia, SC

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Utility Safety Superintendent is Gregory Electric’s senior field safety representative for electrical utility operations. Working with project managers, general foremen, foremen, and employees, this role identifies and corrects hazards, coaches safe work, investigates incidents, delivers training, and verifies compliance. The successful candidate understands utility construction, spends most workweeks on active projects, addresses unsafe decisions professionally, and follows corrective actions through closure. Duties are not all inclusive and may change based on company and project needs.

The position is primarily field based, with limited office and training room time. Work involves frequent exposure to electrical systems, energized equipment, moving equipment, fumes, vibration, mechanical parts, heights, excavations, confined spaces, weather extremes, and construction noise. The role commonly requires standing, walking, climbing, crawling, kneeling, navigating construction areas, operating assigned tools or vehicles, and lifting or carrying up to 60 pounds when required. Required PPE may include a hard hat, gloves, safety glasses, respirator, fall-arrest equipment, and safety-toe footwear. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Gregory Electric describes a family atmosphere, a stable workplace, career advancement opportunities including apprenticeship programs and paid training, and local travel intended to support work-life balance. Benefits include a 401(k) plan with company match and fully paid individual health insurance.

Requirements

• Minimum five years of progressively responsible experience in electrical utility construction, utility safety, or utility field supervision.
• Working knowledge of overhead and underground electrical utility construction activities applicable to assigned projects.
• Ability to recognize electrical, excavation, work-zone, fall, rigging, lifting, and mobile equipment hazards.
• Experience leading crews, coaching supervisors, conducting inspections, enforcing safety requirements, or performing comparable field leadership duties.
• Ability to challenge unsafe decisions regardless of seniority while maintaining productive working relationships.
• OSHA 30-hour Construction training completed or obtained within 90 days of employment.
• Strong communication, documentation, organization, and time-management skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to meet company driving-record requirements.
• Ability to pass required pre-employment drug screening and government background checks.
• Ability to communicate effectively with employees and teams across active job-sites.
• Ability to stand, walk, climb, crawl, kneel, navigate construction areas, operate assigned tools or vehicles, and lift or carry up to 60 pounds when required.
• Ability to wear required PPE, including a hard hat, gloves, safety glasses, respirator, fall-arrest equipment, and safety-toe footwear as applicable.

Nice To Haves

• Background as a utility safety professional or superintendent; journeyman lineman with supervisory experience; or utility foreman, general foreman, or superintendent with significant safety responsibility.
• Certified Utility Safety Professional or Construction Health and Safety Technician credential.
• OSHA 500 or OSHA 510 training.
• First Aid CPR AED provider or instructor credentials.
• NCCER, utility safety, competent-person, or instructor credentials relevant to assigned operations.
• Knowledge of OSHA 29 CFR 1910.269 and 29 CFR 1926 Subpart V; electrical transmission and distribution construction; energized work; minimum approach distances; grounding; and equipotential-zone practices.
• Knowledge of excavation, confined spaces, fall protection, cranes, rigging, material handling, mobile equipment, and work-zone traffic control.
• Knowledge of DOT and FMCSA requirements, NFPA 70E, the National Electrical Code, client rules, and utility procedures where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Provide field safety oversight and conduct documented inspections, audits, and hazard assessments for overhead and underground utility projects.
• Coach employees, supervisors, and subcontractors, and work with field leadership to correct unsafe conditions and behavior.
• Exercise stop-work authority when an imminent-danger condition, serious safety violation, or unacceptable risk is identified.
• Participate in pre-job planning, safety meetings, and reviews of energized work and other high-risk activities.
• Assist with investigations of injuries, near misses, vehicle events, and property damage; identify contributing factors and help develop practical corrective actions.
• Deliver classroom and field training on electrical, work-zone, excavation, fall-protection, PPE, equipment, and other assigned subjects.
• Verify compliance with company safety policies, client requirements, OSHA standards, and applicable federal and state regulations.
• Evaluate subcontractor safety performance and work with project leadership to correct deficiencies.
• Maintain accurate inspection, investigation, training, and corrective-action records, and track deficiencies through documented closure.
• Identify recurring hazards and performance trends and communicate significant findings to Utility Operations leadership and the Corporate Director of Safety and Training.
• Support improvement of company safety programs and, when assigned, report potential utility workmanship or specification concerns to operations leadership.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Fully paid individual health insurance.
• Career advancement opportunities, including apprenticeship programs and paid training.
• Local travel opportunities intended to support work-life balance.
• Stable and enduring workplace.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed