Job Description
Job Summary:
Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive health and safety program for a global data center infrastructure company, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
About the Role:
This is a global impact role that requires a motivated and organized individual to support the authoring and launching of our growing safety management program. The person in this role will author a mix of first-of-a-kind and iterative 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%.
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, supporting 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 and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.
Requirements:
- 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, and 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.