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Position Summary

The Energy Marshal is a safety and operations role responsible for controlling, coordinating, and authorizing energization and de-energization activities on mission critical and data center construction projects. This position serves as the central authority for electrical energy control, ensuring all work involving live or potentially live systems is planned, communicated, approved, and executed safely. While heavily focused on mission critical and data center environments, the Energy Marshal may also support commercial electrical construction projects requiring formal energization controls.

This role is field-based and works closely with project management, superintendents, commissioning teams, safety personnel, and client representatives to protect personnel, equipment, and uptime. Safety is not a function of this role. Safety is the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the single point of control for all electrical energization, de-energization, re-energization, and switching activities on assigned projects.
• Review, approve, and coordinate Energized Work Permits (EWPs), switching plans, and lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures.
• Enforce the CEC LOTO program onsite; direct Deputy Energy Marshals in the safe execution of all LOTO policies and procedures.
• Coordinate with the QACX Superintendent, General Contractor, client, and vendors requiring LOTO to ensure proper documentation, procedures, and requests are completed in a timely manner.
• Maintain authority to approve, deny, or stop work related to electrical energy based on safety, readiness, or risk.
• Manage energization activities in live or near-live data center environments with zero tolerance for unplanned outages.
• Coordinate phased energizations aligned with commissioning, integrated systems testing (IST), and client turnover milestones.
• Ensure strict adherence to owner, operator, and site-specific energy control procedures.
• Participate in outage planning; draft, review, and verify Method of Procedure (MOP), Step-by-Step (SBS), Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), and Emergency Operating Procedure (EOP) documents to ensure all required identifiers, steps, and precautions are included for safe execution.
• Serve as the primary interface between construction teams, commissioning teams, client operations, third-party Cx agents, and safety personnel regarding energy-related activities.
• Lead daily or weekly energization planning meetings and pre-task briefings.
• Maintain clear communication of energized areas, system status, and work boundaries.
• Enforce NFPA 70E, NEC, OSHA, and site-specific safety standards related to electrical work.
• Verify arc flash studies, labels, PPE requirements, and shock/arc boundaries are in place prior to energization.
• Ensure all personnel performing energized or switching work are qualified, authorized, and properly briefed.
• Ensure non-employees and subcontractors are not exposed to risk during CEC start-up operations; verify that appropriate LOTO devices are in place to protect all personnel on site.
• Investigate and document energy-related incidents, near misses, and safety concerns.
• Maintain accurate logs of all energization, switching, outages, and approvals.
• Track energized systems, temporary power status, and permanent power turnover.
• Support development and closeout of commissioning, turnover, and safety documentation.
• Apply formal energy control processes to commercial electrical projects where required by scope, client, or company policy.
• Support project teams with safe energization planning for service turn-ons, gear energization, and final power.
• Performs other duties as needed to support projects, operations, and the department.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of experience in electrical construction, commissioning, startup, or operations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of electrical equipment and systems, including interdependencies, as required to serve as the initiating authority for energization activities.
• Extensive prior experience serving as an Energy Marshal, Switching Authority, or Electrical Authority Having Jurisdiction (site-level).
• NFPA 70E certification or equivalent electrical safety training.
• Experience supporting integrated systems testing (IST) and live environment construction.
• Background with both mission critical and commercial electrical construction projects.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

May work inside or outside.  Possible exposure to hot and cold temperatures, in all-weather elements such as rain, heat, cold and snow. This position also requires work at extreme heights, in areas that are under construction, or in restricted areas such as a switchgear room, manhole, utility tunnel, crawl space, or attic, in confined spaces, and on slippery or uneven surfaces; works on ladders, scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks, in ditches and excavations; works in and around single and multi-story buildings with all exposures typical of a heavy construction site, including portable sanitary facilities.

• Must be able to bend, stoop, squat, crawl, climb, kneel, balance, push, pull and reach overhead. 
• Lift 50 pounds, routinely. Constantly move about on the feet. 
• Climb ladders of all types. 
• Complete full day assignments involving overhead work. 
• Must be able to make transition from employee parking area or street into construction work areas and to access all levels of the building, even if the only means of access is by O.S.H.A. approved site construction ladder or stairs still under construction, but acceptable for use.
• Must be capable of securing tools and materials from storage areas to complete assigned tasks.
• Possess good vision, normal or corrected. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision to discern color coded wires, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 
• Possess good hearing, normal or corrected. 
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, safety vest) at all times. 
• Must be able to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week, and overtime as required and night shifts, as needed. This position requires flexible work hours. In order to get a project completed on time, this position is often required to work overtime, weekends, and night shifts. 
• Must be able to work in the presence of customers and their representatives with little or no interference or disruption to the customer while maintaining a professional and courteous image.

CEC Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.