Construction Safety Manager, Data Center Planning and Delivery

Amazon • Herndon, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This new role “Regional Safety Engineer – DCPD” 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 Real Estate, Due Diligence, Permitting, Energy, Water, Pre-Construction, Construction, Commissioning, Security 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 H&S Program Specialists within the assigned region (Americas, Europe Middle East Africa, or Asia Pacific/Japan China). This is a field based role, required to report to work at field construction and retrofit projects in the greater Washington DC area five days per week. Occasional travel to other domestic locations may be required. 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. 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.

Requirements

• 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
• 5+ years of program or project Management experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
• Master's degree or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Influence program development, framework and strategy, and 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.
• Review due diligence risk assessments with real estate, preconstruction, construction operations on H&S aspects of the AWS H&S management program to ensure adequate implementation.
• Coordinate with DCPD managers to prioritize H&S in planning and execution in all phases of DCPD projects.
• Ensure & Monitor General Contractors and AWS deployment vendors compliance to onboarding requirements in Avetta.
• Perform campus H&S kickoff sessions, and perform reviews of General Contractor and AWS deployment vendor’s Construction Safety Management Plans.
• Document data and anecdotes in standard reporting tools (Weekly Business Reviews, Monthly Project Reviews) for DCPD and H&S leadership teams.
• Manage 3rd party/internal H&S resources on DCPD projects (weekly business reviews, monthly project reviews).
• Identify improvement opportunities at project(s), and partner with Data Center Health and Safety (DCHS) Operational Team on regional issues that impact construction/operations handover phases.
• Audit projects to the mental model ‘do you have a process, and are you following it?’ Then analyze data (leading and lagging indicators) for trends, risks/opportunities and report out at project/regional levels and within governance programs.
• Conduct regular site visits with H&S 3rd party resources, construction managers and Data Center Health and Safety Operational teams.
• Host project and regional specific contractor and internal team H&S kickoff sessions and annual performance review sessions.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior