Job Description
Job Summary: Construction Safety Program Lead
Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive safety management program for a global data center infrastructure company, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
About the Role
The Data Center Planning and Delivery Health and Safety team is seeking a motivated and organized individual to support the authoring and launching of our growing safety management program. This includes iterations to policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines from the architecture elements of leadership, planning, support, operational controls, performance management, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Author comprehensive programs, policies, standards, tools, and mechanisms for improving health and safety at AWS.
- Structure H&S management system to the AWS Safety Management Program governance and ISO 45001 structure.
- Identify management system gaps and prioritize needs according to the architecture elements of Leadership, Planning, Support, Operational Controls, Performance Management, and Continuous Improvement.
- Ensure program compliance to regulatory jurisdictions and conformance to AWS policies.
- Align the global strategy, structure documentation regionally, and apply H&S programs locally, ensuring clear and concise communication and deployment plans are delivered.
- Establish scorecards on H&S performance for the business to have a clear read on how they are performing.
- Complete ad hoc site visits to first-hand see the application of your programs, taking in any and all feedback for iterations.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly program deployment reports.
- Monitor and update changing regulations and industry trends that may influence H&S programs.
- Develop weekly, monthly, and quarterly business updates of KPIs.
- Domestic and international travel up to 25-40%.
A Day in the Life
You will use data and anecdotes to programmatically address H&S risks, trends, concerns, and actions. You will create the materials others use to manage H&S in the business. You will intake escalations when users have questions on program requirements, intake and track program needs from a global workforce, listen and address confusion through press releases and FAQ documents so the end users know how to use your programs.
About the Team
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on.
About AWS
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you don't meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Health, Occupational Safety, Construction Management, Construction Engineering, or related field.
- Experience in International Standards Organization standard application such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, or ISO 45001.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant safety experience managing or building health and safety programs, with a proven record of safety, with minimum 5 years of experience working in the construction industry as a safety professional.
- 3+ years with tools such as: Microsoft Office, Excel, Tableau, Procore, Avetta, etc.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Builder, not a maintainer, in Safety Program Management with experience in field safety program deployment in data center environments.
- Advanced degree and certification through a recognized agency/association in occupational health and safety or equivalent.
- Demonstrated ability to build compliance programs and embed a culture of compliance in a large, rapidly growing, global enterprise.
- Extensive knowledge of global construction safety regulatory frameworks and incident management and risk mitigation programs.
- Strong management experience, with a record of proven leadership, and success working in matrixed organizations.
- High ethical standards with proven ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information, excellent judgment, discretion, diplomacy, problem-solving skills, innovation, and attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience interfacing with and influencing site leaders and senior business leaders, and ability to identify, develop, and implement department goals and strategies.