Job Title: Construction Safety Manager 3Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Construction Safety Advisor to support a large-scale data center construction project in Chicago, IL. This role is responsible for providing health and safety oversight across active construction activities, ensuring a strong safety culture throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Provide day-to-day health and safety oversight across an active data center construction site.
Conduct regular site walks and field observations to identify unsafe conditions, behaviors, emerging risks, and opportunities for improvement.
Review and assess the health and safety implications of changes to construction activities, sequencing, site conditions, and project scope.
Partner with general contractors and trade partners to ensure safety risks are appropriately identified, communicated, and addressed.
Document safety observations, findings, trends, and corrective actions within established tracking systems.
Monitor open safety actions and work with responsible parties to ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner.
Develop and maintain clear health and safety reporting and communication structures that provide project leadership with visibility into safety performance.
Participate in weekly construction progress, safety, and coordination meetings.
Review contractor safety performance and provide constructive feedback to project and contractor leadership.
Assess higher-risk construction activities and verify appropriate controls are in place before and during execution.
Support incident reviews, root-cause discussions, and corrective/preventive actions when necessary.
Identify recurring safety trends and proactively recommend actions to mitigate risk.
Build strong working relationships with field teams while maintaining the ability to appropriately challenge unsafe practices or conditions.
Promote a proactive safety culture focused on hazard recognition, prevention, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Essential Skills
5+ years of construction safety/EHS experience supporting commercial, industrial, mission-critical, or other large-scale construction projects.
Strong knowledge of construction-site hazards, safe work practices, and risk mitigation.
Demonstrated experience conducting field safety observations, audits, inspections, and hazard assessments.
Experience reviewing changing construction activities and assessing the associated health and safety implications.
Experience developing or maintaining safety reports, metrics, observations, corrective-action tracking, and stakeholder communications.
Ability to engage directly with general contractors, subcontractors, and trade personnel regarding safety expectations and concerns.
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the confidence to escalate significant risks appropriately.
Ability to work independently in a fast-paced construction environment while maintaining strong attention to detail.
Comfortable working 100% onsite and spending significant portions of the workday within an active construction environment.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Previous data center or mission-critical construction safety experience.
Safety experience supporting complex electrical, mechanical, civil, or commissioning activities.
Experience working in an owner-side safety/EHS role overseeing contractor safety performance.
Familiarity with Bluebeam and construction project documentation.
OSHA 30-Hour Construction certification preferred.
Additional safety credentials such as CHST, ASP, CSP, or equivalent are highly desirable.
Work Environment
The work environment is 100% onsite in Chicago, IL, with a schedule of 40 hours per week. The role requires the use of equipment including a monitor, keyboard, headset, and mouse. The job involves spending significant time in the field and engaging directly with contractors and construction teams.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Northlake, IL.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $83.00/hr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Northlake, IL.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Nov 13, 2026.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Northlake,IL.
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