HSE Specialist nex

Overview

Mas Tec Utility Services delivers critical infrastructure construction and engineering services for power delivery, gas, and water customers, specializing in overhead and underground electric distribution, gas distribution construction, and turnkey water, sewer, and civil infrastructure projects. Backed by decades of experience, unrivaled industry skills and a deep commitment to core values, MUS provides safe, innovative, and environmentally responsible services that deliver extraordinary value to clients.

Mas Tec Utility Services is a purpose‑driven company. Our core values guide our strategy, performance, and culture. We maintain an environment where team members can make an impact, grow, and thrive, finding meaning and purpose in ensuring communities have vital energy, light, and communications. Our culture is inclusive and welcoming, and our teams are empowered with abundant training, tools, and opportunities to pursue their curiosity and ambitions.

Everyone is supported, respected, and challenged to be their best. We’re always looking for talented and dedicated people to join us and love where they work.

The HSE (Safety) Specialist is responsible for acting as the front‑line safety professional conducting safety inspections, observations, investigations, safety training, and regulatory compliance for OSHA, DOT, and EPA. The specialist anticipates and predicts hazards based on experience, historical data, and other informational sources, recognizes and identifies hazards in existing or future systems, and evaluates the probability and severity of loss events.

They apply methods of conducting hazard analyses, provide advice and counseling about compliance with safety, health, and environmental laws, and inspect workplace facilities, tools, equipment, and machinery to ensure compliance with OSHA/DOT/Mas Tec Utility Services requirements.

• Provide advice and counseling about regulatory compliance with safety, health and environmental laws, codes, regulations, standards, and related company requirements.
• Inspect workplace facilities, including tools, equipment, and machinery, to identify and correct deficiencies or potential hazards, and to ensure compliance with OSHA, DOT, and Mas Tec USA safety and regulatory requirements.
• Assist local management in investigating safety‑related damage incidents, employee injuries or occupational illnesses, and motor vehicle accidents to determine cause and contributing factors.
• Conduct or facilitate safety training and education programs for supervisory and field employees through formal training classes, safety meetings, or other venues.
• Recommend safe work processes and demonstrate personal protective equipment safety features that will reduce employees’ exposure to workplace and environmental hazards.
• Ensure tools, equipment, materials, vehicles, and technical instruments are fit‑for‑purpose, functional, calibrated, and have the appropriate protective equipment, methods, guards, and management systems in place to reduce or eliminate the risk of employee injuries or illnesses.
• Perform other duties as required and/or assigned.

• Experience in civil construction.
• MUST BE FLUENT IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH.
• Associate degree, or equivalent related work experience of 4 years.
• Knowledge of excavation and trenching.
• Knowledge of safe work practices with reference to OSHA standards.

• OSHA Outreach Training Instructor (Construction).
• Current certifications or in pursuit of any of the following: (1) Construction Health & Safety Technician (CHST) or (2) Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP).
• Knowledge in accident investigation following root cause analysis principles.

This job operates in a field environment and routinely requires extended periods of bending, squatting, climbing, kneeling, pushing, pulling, lifting, awkward positioning, standing, and twisting. Work may be conducted in inclement weather conditions such as extreme heat, extreme cold, rain, ice, snow, and wind. The position is physically active with lifting required; the employee must be able to bend and lift and carry up…