Global EHS Design and Readiness Manager

This role may be located in one of the following locations: Seattle, WA; Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Portland, OR; San Diego, CA.

About the role

Google’s corporate office footprint spans the globe, requiring visionary leaders who can maintain a holistic view of complex workplace environments. As the Global EHS Design and Readiness Manager within the EHS Center of Excellence, you will lead complex, multi-disciplinary office construction and workplace design initiatives. You will define technical and operational EHS requirements alongside internal partners, steering workplace projects seamlessly through their entire life-cycle—from initial concept to workplace handover. This involves managing and communicating strategic goals to cross-functional stakeholders.

In this role, you will provide enterprise-level leadership in developing EHS programs that enable teams to build, deliver, and occupy corporate office spaces safely and efficiently. You will engage with all levels of employees and leadership to design new tools, processes, and procedures that mitigate risks from a design and readiness perspective. Partnering with key stakeholders across Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS), Development and Real Estate Investments (DEVCO), and the broader EHS ecosystem, you will architect a comprehensive workplace strategy to continuously evaluate program risks and opportunities, establishing feedback loops and executing work plans against high-standard corporate objectives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with REWS leadership and stakeholders to define long-term strategy, continuously improving the global office EHS design program.
• Embed foundational EHS requirements and design guidelines into project guides, programming documents, and workplace systems.
• Own the EHS readiness framework, aligning milestones with commissioning teams for seamless first day of business transitions.
• Track design misses, analyze incident trends, and translate root-cause findings into updated engineering standards and lessons learned.
• Drive cross-functional accountability by conducting design reviews, readiness inspections, and training workshops to scale standards across the real estate portfolio.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) design, engineering, or risk-management programs within construction, corporate real estate, or industrial environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Facilities Management, workplace operations, and the nuances of designing and constructing buildings or complex corporate systems.
• Strong foundational background in Safety, Mechanical, Electrical, or Fire and Life Safety engineering as applied to complex facility and office designs.
• Strong investigative, data quality troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, and ability to identify key issues, gather and analyze large, complex data sets to support hypotheses, and develop actionable recommendations.
• Applied project management skills, featuring a proven ability to create workable project plans with defined project scope and successfully execute such plans.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment.
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks.
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Pay

US: $157,000 - $227,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits.