Construction Safety Manager, DCPD Health and Safety

Amazon • New Carlisle, IN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Construction Safety Manager role 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 the Regional Construction Safety Manager This is a field based role, required to report to work at field construction projects around New Carlisle, Indiana five days per week. Occasional travel to other domestic locations may be required. 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. This is a field based role, required to report to work at field construction projects around New Carlisle, Indiana 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 Managers, other Construction Safety Managers, and Construction Managers. 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
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of health and safety experience in construction or industrial environments, including demonstrated knowledge of safety management systems, regulatory compliance, and contractor safety management
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• ASP, CSP, or CHST Preferred
• Construction Safety Experience.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Coordinates with DCPD managers to prioritize H&S in planning and execution in all phases of DCPD projects.
• Ensures & Monitors General Contractors and AWS deployment vendors compliance to onboarding requirements in Avetta.
• Performs campus H&S kickoff sessions, and performs reviews of General Contractor and AWS deployment vendor’s Construction Safety Management Plans
• Documents data and anecdotes in standard reporting tools (Weekly Business Reviews, Monthly Project Reviews) for DCPD and H&S leadership teams
• Manages 3rd party/internal H&S resources on DCPD projects (weekly business reviews, monthly project reviews)
• Identifies improvement opportunities at project(s), and partners with Data Center Health and Safety (DCHS) Operational Team on regional issues that impact construction/operations handover phases.
• Audits projects to the mental model ‘do you have a process, and are you following it?’ Then analyzes 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, construction managers and Data Center Health and Safety Operational teams
• Hosts project and regional specific contractor and internal team H&S kickoff sessions and annual performance review sessions.

Benefits

• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave.
• Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
• USA, IN, New Carlisle - 121,200.00 - 163,900.00 USD annually

What This Job Offers

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