Data Center Logistics Safety Coordinator

Milestone Technologies is a global IT managed services firm that partners with organizations to scale their technology, infrastructure, and services to drive specific business outcomes such as digital transformation, innovation, and operational agility. With over 25 years of experience, Milestone supports category-defining enterprise clients and specializes in Application Services and Consulting, Digital Product Engineering, Digital Workplace Services, Private Cloud Services, AI/Automation, and ServiceNow. The company fosters a collaborative, inclusive, and employee-first culture, empowering professionals to deliver transformational benefits through continuous service improvement and intelligent automation. Milestone serves over 200 companies worldwide with more than 3,000 employees.

About the Role

This advanced, full-time, onsite role requires up to 25% travel based on business needs, including site support, training, deployments, client meetings, or operational coverage. The Data Center Logistics Safety Coordinator leads and coordinates daily safety operations within client data center, warehouse, construction-adjacent, and deployment environments. This role serves as the dedicated safety point of contact, field-level safety leader, and first level of safety escalation for all site logistics, construction-adjacent, and deployment activities.

This position operates within an active data center construction and deployment environment, which may include construction zones, loading docks, staging areas, equipment pathways, and areas with ongoing trade activity. Employees must follow site safety rules, use designated walkways, and report unsafe conditions immediately. Required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn at all times in designated areas and may include:

• Hard hat
• Steel-toed safety boots
• High-visibility vest or approved high-visibility clothing
• Safety eyewear/eye protection
• Work gloves
• Hearing protection (as required by area or task)

Responsibilities

Safety Leadership & Culture

• Serve as the primary onsite safety coordinator for assigned shift, site, building, or operational area.
• Lead by example as the visible safety standard-bearer, ensuring safety is treated as a non-negotiable operating requirement.
• Promote and reinforce a culture of hazard awareness, stop-work authority, personal accountability, proactive reporting, and continuous safety improvement.
• Act as the primary safety point of contact for all logistics, deployment, and construction-adjacent team members.
• Champion safety communication across shifts, teams, and cross-functional partners.

Hazard Identification & Risk Control

• Conduct daily safety walks, field observations, and area inspections to identify hazards and verify controls.
• Proactively identify, document, and communicate workplace hazards, including material handling risks, pedestrian-equipment conflicts, housekeeping deficiencies, ergonomic concerns, fall hazards, and changing construction conditions.
• Verify that required hazard controls, barriers, signage, and access restrictions are in place before work begins.
• Stop or escalate work immediately when unsafe conditions, unapproved procedures, or uncontrolled hazards are identified.
• Partner with site leadership and construction management to assess and mitigate risks associated with changing site conditions or new work scopes.

Pre-Task Planning & Job Hazard Analysis

• Lead or support pre-task safety reviews, toolbox talks, job hazard analyses (JHA), job safety analyses (JSA), lift/move planning discussions, and daily safety briefings.
• Ensure all higher-risk activities have documented hazard assessments and that personnel understand required controls before work begins.
• Review and validate task-specific safety plans for material handling, equipment operation, elevated work, hot work adjacency, confined space adjacency, and construction-zone logistics.
• Coordinate with construction, operations, and client teams to align logistics safety plans with site permits, restricted areas, and active work zones.

Incident & Near-Miss Management

• Document and investigate safety observations, near misses, unsafe conditions, first aid events, and recordable incidents using established reporting systems.
• Conduct or support root cause analysis for safety events; identify contributing factors, systemic gaps, and corrective/preventive actions.
• Track open safety actions to closure and verify effectiveness of corrective measures.
• Maintain accurate and timely safety records, logs, and reports in compliance with client and regulatory requirements.
• Escalate significant safety concerns, repeat findings, or unresolved risks to management and client safety representatives.

Training, Coaching & Competency

• Train, coach, and mentor team members on hazard recognition, stop-work responsibility, proper PPE selection and use, safe material handling, pedestrian and equipment separation, housekeeping standards, and escalation of changing work conditions.
• Deliver or coordinate toolbox talks, safety stand-downs, new-hire safety orientations, refresher training, and task-specific safety briefings.
• Assess team member safety competency through field observations, coaching conversations, and performance feedback.
• Maintain training records and ensure team members are current on required safety certifications and site-specific training.

Compliance & Program Support

• Ensure compliance with OSHA standards, client safety requirements, site-specific procedures, and company safety policies.
• Support safety audits, observation programs, inspection schedules, and management safety reviews.
• Monitor and enforce PPE compliance, equipment pre-use inspections, housekeeping standards, and safe work procedures.
• Coordinate with site safety, construction, security, facilities, vendors, and client representatives to align work activities with access rules, permit requirements, and restricted work areas.
• Maintain strong working knowledge of all applicable safety regulations, client standards, work instructions, and site procedures.
• Support development and continuous improvement of safety procedures, checklists, JHAs, SOPs, and safety communication materials.

Reporting & Communication

• Prepare and deliver shift safety updates, observation summaries, incident reports, trend analyses, corrective action status reports, and safety performance metrics.
• Communicate safety expectations, lessons learned, alerts, and best practices to team members and cross-functional partners.
• Participate in safety committee meetings, client safety calls, construction coordination meetings, and management reviews.
• Identify, document, and recommend process improvements to enhance safety performance, reduce risk, and improve compliance.

Requirements

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in safety coordination, safety leadership, or a hands-on operational role with significant safety responsibilities in logistics, warehouse, construction, data center, or industrial environments.
• 1+ year of experience in a dedicated safety role, safety coordinator capacity, lead with safety ownership, or equivalent safety-focused position.
• Demonstrated ability to lead safety conversations, conduct hazard assessments, recognize and control workplace hazards, and escalate or stop work when unsafe conditions exist.

Pay

Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location.