Controls & Cx H&S Manager, Data Center Planning and Delivery

About the role

This new role “Construction Safety Manager” is for an experienced Health and Safety (H&S) Specialist, H&S Engineer, or H&S Manager who will support AWS Data Center Planning and Delivery (DCPD) programs.

Internally, you will partner with DCPD teams such as Real Estate, Due Diligence, Permitting, Energy, Water, Pre-Construction, Construction, Commissioning, Security and Procurement Teams to achieve health and safety goals and improve our safety culture.

Externally, you will engage with General Contractors and AWS Suppliers to confirm/clarify the business expectations for H&S, and look for ways to continually improve H&S of our contracted services.

Responsibilities

• Influence program development, framework and strategy but deploy programs covering H&S elements of leadership, planning, support, operational controls, continuous improvement, performance management, ensuring businesses operate to jurisdictional requirements, and AWS Safety Management Program (SMP) requirements.
• Review due diligence risk assessments with real estate, preconstruction, construction operations on H&S aspects of the AWS H&S management program to ensure adequate implementation.
• Coordinate with DCPD managers to prioritize H&S in planning and execution in all phases of DCPD projects.
• Ensure and monitor General Contractors and AWS deployment vendors compliance to onboarding requirements in Avetta.
• Perform campus H&S kickoff sessions, and perform reviews of General Contractor and AWS deployment vendor’s Construction Safety Management Plans.
• Document data and anecdotes in standard reporting tools (Weekly Business Reviews, Monthly Project Reviews) for DCPD and H&S leadership teams.
• Manage 3rd party/internal H&S resources on DCPD projects (weekly business reviews, monthly project reviews).
• Identify improvement opportunities at project(s), and partner with Data Center Health and Safety (DCHS) Operational Team on regional issues that impact construction/operations handover phases.
• Audit projects to the mental model 'do you have a process, and are you following it?' Then analyze data (leading and lagging indicators) for trends, risks/opportunities and report out at project/regional levels and within governance programs.
• Conduct regular site visits with H&S 3rd party resources, construction managers and Data Center Health and Safety Operational teams.
• Host project and regional specific contractor and internal team H&S kickoff sessions and annual performance review sessions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
• 5+ years of program or project Management experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent