Critical Project Implementation-Regional Safety Engineer

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Do you enjoy taking an idea and turning it into something? Do you ever find yourself marveling at buildings, infrastructure, or landmarks and ask "what does it take to build something like that?" This new role "Regional Safety Engineer – Critical Project Implementation" is for an experienced Health and Safety (H&S) Specialist, H&S Engineer, or H&S Manager who will support AWS Data Center Planning and Delivery (DCPD) programs. Internally, you will partner with DCPD teams such as Construction, Commissioning, Security, Date Center Operations and Procurement Teams to achieve health and safety goals and improve our safety culture. Externally, you will engage with General Contractors and AWS Suppliers to confirm/clarify the business expectations for H&S, and look for ways to continually improve H&S of our contracted services. You will work under the direction of the Global DCPD Field H&S Leader within the assigned region (Americas, Europe Middle East Africa, or Asia Pacific/Japan China).

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Key job responsibilities

You will influence program development, framework and strategy but will be responsible for deploying programs that cover H&S elements of leadership, planning, support, operational controls, continuous improvement, performance management, ensure the businesses are operating to jurisdictional requirements, and AWS Safety Management Program (SMP) requirements.

Examples:

• Develop and implement organizational Incident Prevention Model (IPM) and roadmap.

• Align IPM with AWS Construction Safety Management Systems

• Develop and/or implement existing mechanisms that operationalize the AWS Construction Safety Management System

• Deploy industry recognized H&S cultural assessment (ex: Dupont-Bradley Curve). Develop action items based on assessment results.

• Implement Procore H&S functionality within CPI operations. Bridge data collection from operational H&S management systems (AUSTIN)

• Develop CPI Global Minimum H&S Standards, that incorporate existing construction standards and operational safety policies

• Establish CPI H&S key performance indicators (leading/lagging) and metric output mechanisms

• Implement lessons learned process to drive organization H&S education/upskilling

• Develop CPI H&S training program

• Support and analyze operational controls and management processes required for safe project execution

• Support project managers in the execution of the H&S safety management system during the planning and execution of all phases of CPI projects.

• Ensures & monitors AWS vendors compliance to onboarding requirements in Avetta.

• Develop H&S kickoff standard work process to be scaled and delivered by project managers and performs reviews of AWS vendor's safety management plans

• Manages 3rd party/internal H&S resources on CPI projects (weekly business reviews, monthly project reviews)

• Identifies improvement opportunities across project(s), and partners with Data Center Health and Safety (DCHS) Operational Team on project/region/global issues that impact CPI project delivery.

• Audits projects to the mental model 'do you have a process, and are you following it?' Serve as SME to project managers and support personnel in the auditing to the mental model share data (leading and lagging indicators) for trends, risks/opportunities and reports out at project/regional levels and within governance programs

• Conduct regular site visits with H&S 3rd party resources, project managers and Data Center Health and Safety Operational teams

A day in the life

You will use data and anecdotes to tactically drive internal customers to manage H&S risks, which includes being an escalation path for issue resolution and managing site-based H&S team members and/or consultants. You will apply your knowledge of the jurisdictional requirements, regional best practices, cultural norms, and location specific characteristics to improve DCPD activities in H&S by jumping in and showing the business "this is what the data is telling us, and this is how it is done" and develop DCPD competencies to enable them ownership of your solutions.

You must be an effective communicator, sending clear, concise and consistent messages verbally, in written form, and/or public speaking forums. You will play a key role in deploying mechanisms that manage H&S, while developing competencies and ownership of H&S in the business. You must have diplomacy, patience and tact to earn trust in relationships to effectively advise, instruct and challenge DCPD teams on H&S.

About the team

You will be integrated with a global network of H&S professionals including program specialists, regional safety managers, and regional safety engineers in operational teams.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience of 7-10 years' in health and safety, contractor management, due diligence reviews, contractor safety, program implementation or providing direct oversight for 3rd party services/contractors/consultants
• Construction and/or retrofit H&S experience
• Critical Infrastructure and Data Center construction and operations knowledge
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Safety and Health, Construction Safety Management, Contractor Health and Safety Management or related field.
• Advanced certification through recognized agency/association(s) in occupational health and safety (i.e. BCSP, ASSP, BCRSP, ITC-ILO, IOHS, NEBOSH, SISO, MEM, etc)
• Organization standard application such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, or ISO OSHA VPP, ANSI Z-10

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent
• A builder - not a maintainer in Health and Safety Program management
• Ability to follow the plan, but dive into ambiguity to sort 'it out', think big, and apply solutions for long term improvement opportunities across a portfolio of projects.
• Use and share the data and anecdotes to support your efforts and operate to a Plan, Do, Check, Act mentality.
• Experience working with Procore and Avetta software.
• Strong analytical skills on leading and lagging data, with problem solving abilities that show results.
• Ability to travel 30-60% domestically & internationally.

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