Health & Safety Manager Data Centres

Health & Safety Manager Data Centres

Paris

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Our organization is a dynamic and innovative real estate company, serving as both a developer and investor with a primary focus on logistics real estate. We are expanding our portfolio to include cutting-edge data centre development projects and are therefore seeking experienced data centre professionals.

More concretely, this means:
Key Responsibilities:
Health and Safety Leadership:

- Provide leadership and strategic direction for all health and safety aspects of a large-scale data centre project.
- Lead the H&S strategy to ensure a safe working environment for all project personnel.
- Promote and lead a safety-first culture across all project phases, ensuring adherence to company safety standards and raising H&S capacity for successful work.

Customer Management:

- Engage with customer to understand their H&S expectations and requirements, ensuring these are integrated into project plans and execution.
- Maintain positive and collaborative relationships with customers, regularly communicating H&S updates, metrics, milestones, key decisions and improvement initiatives.
- Ensure transparency and alignment of H&S expectations throughout the project life cycle, with a focus on solving issues and avoiding escalations. If escalations do occur, own them and drive towards a solution.

Project Planning and Execution:

- Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to integrate H&S considerations into comprehensive project plans, including design development, procurement, pre-construction, construction, commissioning, handover, and customer occupation processes.
- Oversee the preparation and approval of safety plans, method statements, and risk assessments.

Compliance and Auditing:

- Ensure compliance with all relevant H&S regulations, standards, and company policies.
- Conduct regular site inspections, verify risk assessments, and audits to verify adherence to H&S protocols, ensuring all potential risks are anticipated and mitigated effectively.
- Identify and work with contractors, advisors and end-users to implement corrective actions for any identified non-compliances, safety issues and/or improvement initiative.

Team Collaboration and Communication:

- Promote and deliver a collaborative environment among all team members, including contractors, advisors and end-users.
- Establish and maintain effective communication channels and a transparent escalation procedure for H&S matters.

Reporting and Documentation
- Maintain accurate and detailed H&S records, metric data, and documentation.
- Establish and implement thorough project controls to identify potential H&S issues early and develop effective mitigation strategies.
- Provide timely, accurate, and consistent H&S progress and status reports to the Project Lead and other relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute to Goodman’s reporting needs by providing necessary H&S data and narrative.

Qualifications:

- A minimum of 10 years of experience in a Health and Safety management role, of which the last 5 have been in the data centre sector.
- Proven track record of implementing and managing H&S strategies on large-scale, technically complex projects.
- Strong leadership, decision-making, and communication skills.
- Fluent in English and the language of the country of operation.
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Occupational Health and Safety, Engineering, or a related field.
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or equivalent safety certification accredited in the country of operation.
- ISO 45001 Lead Auditor certification is a plus