Position Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of the project’s energization and LOTO governance program, ensuring all procedures align with Hays corporate standards, NFPA 70E, OSHA regulations, and the general contractor’s energization safety plan.
• Develop and maintain the project-specific energization safety plan, updating it as conditions, sequences, or project milestones evolve.
• Ensure all required energization deliverables, such as arc-flash documentation, protective device coordination studies, emergency response considerations, and labeling are completed and validated before equipment is placed in service.
• Maintain authoritative control over breaker operation and energization sequences, ensuring only approved and qualified personnel engage in switching activities.

Planning, Communication & Documentation Control

• Coordinate energization planning with the general contractor, commissioning leadership, electrical contractor’s Energy Marshal, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate advance energization readiness meetings, ensuring project stakeholders understand scope, sequencing, risk controls, and required documentation.
• Ensure proper documentation, including PTPs, LOTO plans, energization schedules, AHAs, certifications, and QA/QC records is submitted, reviewed, and approved within required timeframes.
• Maintain daily updates to single-line diagrams, breaker schedules, energized equipment postings, and LOTO tracking boards to reflect real-time system status.

LOTO Program Oversight

• Verify that all LOTO procedures are properly applied, documented, and monitored throughout all energized and de-energized work activities.
• Ensure LOTO stations are staffed with qualified personnel and that all locks, tags, permits, and equipment boundaries are established before any switching or start-up activity begins.
• Oversee installation and removal of locks, ensuring sequencing integrity and proper security of all control points.
• Validate that the project maintains complete and compliant control-of-hazardous-energy process across all equipment and electrical rooms.

Pre-Energization & Post-Energization Activities

• Conduct daily pre-start inspections of electrical gear with electricians, commissioning representatives, and project stakeholders to validate that all systems, components, labeling, installation details, and protective measures are in place.
• Complete end-of-day verification checks to ensure all equipment is left in a safe and secure condition before crews depart.
• Ensure all pre-energization conditions, including barrier placement, room access restrictions, signage, QA/QC closeout documentation, and hazard boundaries are satisfied before authorizing energization.
• Support commissioning turnover by coordinating equipment availability, status updates, and system conditions.

• Maintain a strong daily field presence, overseeing electrical rooms, energized gear, energization prep areas, and locations where switching or testing activities occur.
• Control access to energized spaces by maintaining authorization lists, room access rules, and entry controls consistent with project requirements.
• Communicate daily high-risk conditions, equipment status, restricted spaces, and planned switching operations to the field workforce and management teams.
• Lead daily energization and LOTO coordination meetings to ensure all involved parties understand work scopes, hazards, and required precautions.

• Validate credentials, training certifications, and qualified-worker status for all personnel performing LOTO, switching, energized work, or working on de-energized electrical components.
• Ensure vendor partners and subcontractors receive orientation on the project’s energy-control and LOTO program requirements.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and assurance oversight to ensure all energy-control activities meet the highest standards of safety and technical compliance.

• Serve as the primary onsite point of contact for all energization-related activities between Hays Electrical Services, the general contractor, commissioning agents, the electrical contractor, and client representatives.
• Support schedule coordination by integrating energization sequences into pull-planning sessions and daily activity planning.
• Provide clear, consistent communication to project leadership regarding energization progress, risks, system status, and readiness conditions.
• Reinforce expectations for energized work boundaries, human-performance awareness, and high-risk activity management.

• 7+ years of electrical construction experience with strong familiarity in medium-voltage and low-voltage systems, equipment start-up, and commissioning interfaces.
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience with NFPA 70E, OSHA 1910/1926 electrical safety, and LOTO programs.
• Ability to read and interpret single-line diagrams, electrical drawings, equipment schedules, and coordination studies.
• Prior experience serving as an Energy Marshal, Electrical Foreman, Commissioning Lead, Start-Up Electrician, or similar role with energization exposure.
• Proven ability to lead meetings, coordinate stakeholders, and enforce compliance in high-risk electrical environments.
• Prior mission-critical/data-center construction experience.
• Training certifications in NFPA 70E, LOTO, or MV/LV energization programs.

• Licensed Journeyman or Master Electrician.