About JPS
Built in the field.
Proven under pressure.
Jones Professional Services is an owner-operated consultancy founded by Caleb Jones, a Board-certified safety professional whose clients kept asking him to solve problems outside his job description. JPS was built on that reputation.
From the field, for the field
I'm Caleb Jones, a second-generation pipeline inspector and safety professional. That's my dad in the photo. We've walked the same rights-of-way, and the standard I hold my work to started with his. In this trade your name is your reputation. I inherited a good one and I intend to keep it.
My career has been spent where the work happens: pipeline inspector and assistant chief inspector across 15 states, emergency response after the Keystone Pipeline release, and more than 150 anomaly and integrity digs. Today I provide safety consulting on hyperscale data center construction, one of the most demanding build environments in the country.
In every one of those roles, clients brought me problems outside the job description, and I solved them. I built QR systems that put worker certifications and SDS documentation at the point of work instead of in a binder. I turned daily field activity into observation trackers and dashboards leadership could act on. I supported critical crane picks and helicopter lifts, mentored inspectors, and rebuilt document workflows that kept multi-million-dollar projects audit-ready.
That is what Jones Professional Services is: a Board-certified Construction Health & Safety Technician (CHST) with the whole toolbox. Safety, inspection, field technology, data analysis, and design. JPS stays deliberately small. When you hire us, you work directly with me. I travel anywhere in the country, I report exactly what I find, and I put my name on the work.
Credentials
- CHST #CHST-22874: Construction Health & Safety Technician, Board of Certified Safety Professionals
- OSHA 30
- Veriforce OQ Certified
- TWIC Card Holder
- Authorized by MPLX to issue Safe Work Permits and authorize High Energy Hot Work under Life Critical protocols
- ASNT Level II MT / VT / UT (held 2021–2024)
Field experience
- Hyperscale data center construction (mission-critical)
- Pipeline integrity & emergency response, 15 states
- 45+ miles of new pipeline installed • weld & coating inspection
- Critical lifts: crane picks & helicopter lifts
- Multi-trade mechanical installation oversight
One call covers
- Safety & OSHA compliance
- Inspections & test witnessing
- Drone photo / video
- Signs & graphic design
- Data analysis & field technology
The foundation
Before I ever wrote a lift plan,
I learned how the material gets to the hook
I spent five years at Fastenal in Lexington, Kentucky, managing industrial supply and PPE accounts for construction, manufacturing, and institutional clients. It's not the part of my resume people ask about. It's the part that built everything after it.
The work was bigger than counting parts. I read engineered drawings and sourced fasteners from across the US and overseas. We were the OEM fastener supplier for Trane, including two SKUs that moved ten million screws a year. I supplied the University of Kentucky with a large share of the MRO for the campus team and the hospital, and when COVID hit we kept PAPRs, masks, and sanitizer flowing and built 30,000 custom kits for students. The strange requests came to me too: helipad lights, a security screw walk-down for Good Samaritan hospital, custom VMI fastener bins for their garage. I handled every aspect of the supply chain, quote to payment, and the store side too: checking out customers, cycle counts, organizing and labeling the shelves. If it took a forklift or a 26-foot box truck, that was part of the job. I even delivered a refrigerator to the football field once.
That view of the supply chain is where my approach to safety and business comes from. Safety programs fail the same way supply chains fail: not in the dramatic moments, but in the unglamorous ones. Records nobody can find. Certifications nobody verified. Permits that exist on paper and nowhere else. So I build safety the way a good supplier runs logistics: everything tracked, everything verifiable, everything where the field can reach it in seconds. A document you can't produce when it matters is the same as a stockout, and I decided a long time ago never to be the reason work stops.
The pipeline years taught me hazards. Fastenal taught me systems. The consulting practice is both.
Selected experience
Where this record was built
Hyperscale Data Center • Iowa • 2026 to present
Safety consultant for mechanical construction on a live hyperscale data center project. Multi-trade coordination across pipefitting, HVAC, plumbing, and insulation crews. Built and deployed the site's QR-based credential and SDS verification system. Supported crane and helicopter lift operations for rooftop equipment placement.
MPLX Pipeline Integrity • NM, TX, OK • 2024 to 2026
Eighteen months as Assistant Chief Inspector on MPLX integrity and replacement work spanning northwest New Mexico to the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma: 75+ anomaly digs, 20+ cutouts including a stopple and bypass, roughly 10 miles of new pipe in New Mexico, horizontal bores including a 4,000-foot golf course crossing, and line leak repairs.
Keystone Milepost 14 Response • Kansas • Winter 2022
One-month emergency deployment. Night-shift safety inspection during crude oil spill remediation. Built the safety observation tracking system that fed trend data to the operator's command team.
Pipeline & Terminal Work • Nationwide • 2021 to 2024
Mainline construction inspection including 20 miles of new natural gas installs in North Dakota alone, deep-crossing hot tap projects, terminal fabrication with tank conversion and new piping, a new bullet blending tank build in Indiana, strain relief on active crude lines with in-service welding coordination, and anomaly dig campaigns across the Midwest.
Time in the field
Fifteen states of documented field work, day by day. We track our own work the way we track yours: organized, verifiable, and ready when someone asks.
Let's talk about your operation
No sales pitch. Describe the problem, and you'll get a straight answer about whether JPS is the right fit.
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