What youâll be doing:
Strategic Leadership & Programme Ownership
- Lead the strategic development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the regional EHS programme across the EMEA datacenter portfolio.
- Translate global EHS objectives into actionable regional plans, ensuring alignment with company standards and client requirements.
- Provide strategic direction and thought leadership to embed a proactive, prevention-focused safety culture throughout the organisation.
- Act as the primary EHS contact for internal stakeholders, senior leadership, and client EHS teams across multiple countries.
Team Leadership & People Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a geographically distributed team of EHS professionals to ensure high performance and consistency across the region.
- Set clear expectations, oversee workload management, and conduct regular performance conversations.
- Support team growth by mentoring, providing constructive feedback, and identifying development opportunities.
Risk Management, Assessment & Incident Response
- Conduct and oversee comprehensive risk assessments for new and existing datacenters.
- Lead or support injury, incident, and nearâmiss investigations, ensuring thorough rootâcause analysis and corrective action planning.
- Monitor regional risk trends and work with operational leaders to implement preventative measures.
- Provide timely support during safety incidents or emergencies, including occasional evening or weekend response.
Compliance, Governance & Policy Management
- Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, client safety standards, company policies, and audit requirements across the region.
- Oversee policy governance, ensuring documents remain up to date, fit for purpose, and effectively communicated.
- Lead internal audits and support external or client-led audits, ensuring findings are addressed through robust action plans.
- Support standardisation of EHS processes across multiple countries and operational environments.
Training, Coaching & Safety Culture Development
- Collaborate with training teams to support the creation, delivery, and improvement of EHS training programmes.
- Coach managers and frontline teams to improve safety awareness, behaviours, and ownership.
- Lead cultural initiatives designed to embed EHS best practice across all levels of the organisation.
- Facilitate workshops, toolbox talks, and briefings for operational and leadership audiences.
Data, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Oversee accurate reporting of incidents, metrics, and EHS performance across the EMEA region.
- Analyse data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare clear, concise EHS reports for senior leadership and client partners.
- Monitor the effectiveness of EHS initiatives and recommend enhancements based on findings.
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
- Build strong relationships with internal operations, HR, training, and quality teams to support joined-up safety management.
- Partner closely with client EHS teams to ensure alignment, transparency, and collaborative risk management.
- Represent EHS at leadership meetings, reviews, and client engagements.
Travel & Field Support
- Provide on-site support across EMEA locations, typically involving 30â50% regional travel.
- Support local teams with inspections, assessments, audits, onboarding, and coaching.
Please Note: This is only a rough outline of what the role will be doing, should you meet the requirements we encourage you to apply!