Energy Marshall | Cedar Rapids, IA

HazTek Inc.; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Haz Tek Safety Management is seeking an Energy Marshal to coordinate electrical-energy activities on energy-critical projects in the Cedar Rapids area. You will manage energization, switching, and LOTO, ensuring compliance with NFPA 70E/OSHA standards and owner requirements on large data-center or mission-critical installations.

The role emphasizes planning, documentation, and cross-disciplinary coordination, with responsibility for schedules, risk management, and incident follow-up.

Qualifications

• Extensive electrical construction, commissioning, or mission-critical experience.
• Strong coordination, documentation, communication, and field leadership skills.
• Knowledge of NFPA 70E, OSHA electrical-safety requirements, NFPA 70, and owner standards.
• Qualified-person electrical training appropriate to the assigned responsibilities.
• Prior experience managing energization activities on large data center or mission-critical projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enforce the project Electrical Safety and Energization Plan.
• Coordinate energizations, shutdowns, and switching activities.
• Maintain energization schedule and identify upcoming activities and approvals.
• Review and approve energization requests, switching plans, and safe-work plans.
• Verify equipment readiness before energization and ensure documentation.
• Complete QA/QC inspections and commissioning prerequisites.
• Establish energized work boundaries and controlled-access areas.
• Ensure proper labeling and protection of energized equipment on diagrams.
• Maintain energized-equipment logs with status and restrictions.
• Oversee lockout/tagout programs and multi-trade LOTO activities.
• Verify locks, tags, permits, and isolation points are properly installed and removed.
• Conduct field audits of energized systems and LOTO installations.
• Lead pre-energization and daily coordination meetings.
• Coordinate with electrical contractors, commissioning agents, vendors, and authorities.
• Communicate system-status changes and ensure shift turnover records.
• Participate in incident investigations and corrective actions.
• Stop energization when requirements are not met; support safe turnover.
• Provide regular reports on energizations, deficiencies, LOTO status, risks, and schedule impacts.

Skills

Electrical construction

Commissioning

Mission-critical experience

Coordination

Documentation

Communication

Field leadership

NFPA 70E

OSHA standards

NFPA 70

Owner standards

Qualified-person training

Data center experience

Job description

Responsibilities

The Energy Marshal coordinates and controls electrical-energy activities but does not replace the

electrical contractor’s competent/qualified persons, the commissioning authority, the engineer of

record, or the owner’s operational authority. The project-specific responsibility matrix should

clearly define who prepares, reviews, approves, performs, witnesses, and accepts each

energization and switching activity.

• Develop, maintain, and enforce the project Electrical Safety and Energization Plan.
• Coordinate all initial energizations, re-energizations, shutdowns, and switching activities.
• Maintain an accurate energization schedule and identify upcoming activities, constraints, and required approvals.
• Review and approve energization requests, method-of-procedure documents, switching plans, and electrical safe-work plans.
• Verify equipment readiness before energization, including inspections, testing, labeling, housekeeping, access control, and documentation.
• Confirm completion of required QA/QC inspections, pre-functional checklists, test reports, and commissioning prerequisites.
• Establish and manage energized electrical work boundaries and controlled-access areas.
• Ensure energized equipment is properly labeled, barricaded, secured, and identified on current one-line diagrams.
• Maintain an up-to-date energized-equipment log showing system status, date energized, source, voltage, responsible party, and restrictions.
• Oversee the project lockout/tagout program and coordinate multi-trade or group LOTO activities.
• Verify that locks, tags, permits, and isolation points are properly installed, documented, audited, and removed.
• Conduct routine field audits of energized equipment, temporary power systems, electrical rooms, and LOTO installations.
• Lead pre-energization meetings and daily coordination meetings when energized work is planned.
• Coordinate with electrical contractors, commissioning agents, equipment vendors, utility representatives, owner operations teams, and the Authority Having Jurisdiction.
• Communicate changes in system status to all affected personnel and maintain clear shift-to-shift turnover records.
• Participate in incident investigations, near-miss reviews, and corrective-action development involving electrical energy.
• Stop or suspend energization or energized work when requirements, documentation, testing, or site conditions are unacceptable.
• Support safe turnover of electrical systems from construction control to commissioning and ultimately to the owner.
• Provide regular reports covering completed and upcoming energizations, open deficiencies, LOTO status, risks, and schedule impacts.

Qualifications

• Extensive electrical construction, commissioning, or mission-critical experience
• Strong working knowledge of electrical distribution systems, one-line diagrams,
• switching procedures, grounding, temporary power, and LOTO
• Familiarity with NFPA 70E, OSHA electrical-safety requirements, NFPA 70, and
• applicable owner standards
• Qualified-person electrical training appropriate to the assigned responsibilities
• Strong coordination, documentation, communication, and field-leadership skills
• Prior experience managing energization activities on large data center or mission-critical projects preferred

Overview

HazTek Safety Management is a full-service, objective safety partner, founded in 1997. The health, safety and well-being of employeesand companies is our highest priority. We offer full-time employment, stability, competitive benefits, professional development, travel, diverse safety experiences, management support and the added benefit of working with a network of over 275 full-time HazTek safety professionals.

At HazTek, We Stand Together for Safety

We are committed to building an environment of inclusion and acceptance which values diversity across all areas of theorganization; an environmentin which all employees can contribute to the success of the business and are valued for their skills, experience, and unique perspectives.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

Pay Range

$120,000 - $150.000 per year

Travel | Relocation

Travel and or Relocation will be considered