Health & Safety Manager

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) has over 20 years' experience in designing, building and operating energy-efficient, reliable data centres – hosting significant financial, media, corporate and cloud wholesale providers across the world.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We endeavour to take a customer-led approach across our operations, striving to serve our customers with a seamless experience no matter what facility or region they are in.

Finding the right solutions for our customers starts with finding the right people for Colt DCS. We believe in creating a healthy, learning environment for our employees to flourish.

Our vision: to be the most customer-centric data centre provider.

Short Role Summary

Based in Germany (predominantly Frankfurt), you will develop and execute our Health and Safety strategy in line with Health, Safety and Environment legislation.

In doing so, you will work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders at all levels, including our Europe operations and construction teams, to develop and implement, maintain and improve the health, safety and environmental management.

We have a mix of data centres in the region that are either in design, construction or operation phases so the role will be varied.  The role also takes responsibility for Berlin, where you will likely travel to monthly, and Roosendaal in the Netherlands, where you will travel to at least quarterly.

Job Description

Key accountabilities:

•    Implement and maintain frameworks to support and enhance the HSE management within the organisation

•    Ensure compliance with relevant HSE legislation in Germany and the Netherlands, maintain and audit against the legal database

•    Ensure Colt DCS minimum standards are maintained and audit against internal standards

•    Work closely with the Head of HSE and other team members to develop, maintain and improve DCS operational and construction standards

•    Drive consistency, sustainability and effectiveness in the management of HSE functions and processes that are revised and improved based on leading performance monitoring, audits and external evaluations

•    Support the interface between construction and operations to ensure that HSE is correctly transitioned from a project's construction phase to a live facility

•    Assist the HSE Director and Head of HSE for UK and Europe to develop, prepare and plan for ISO 45001 Certification

•    Assist the HSE Director and Head of HSE for UK and Europe to maintain ISO 14001 and expand to new sites

•    Liaise with the certification body and internal stakeholders to arrange external audits

•    Develop and maintain HSE management system documents to support the planning and implementation process

•    Support customer requests and attend meetings and customer audits; maintain good working relationships with customer (HSE) personnel

•    Play an integral role in the team and provide support and statistics to colleagues to help identify trends and implement improvement plans

•    Develop a positive team culture through achievement of results, teamwork, development, accountability, competency and professionalism

•    Support the creation and delivery of internal training programmes and subject specific initiatives aligned to the development and roll-out of management system elements and statutory requirements

•    Administration of database systems including HSE communication sites and preparation of documents for issue

•    Conduct workplace inspections, produce inspection reports, and develop action plans as and when required.

•    Ensure any actions arising from audits, risk assessments or inspections are closed-out

•    Maintain accident and incident records and undertake investigations as required

•    Assist with organisation and administration of HSE campaigns

•    To perform additional duties within the scope of the position as requested by the Head of HSE for UK and Europe

Requirements

•    Strong experience in a similar HSE role ideally within data centre (or similar) construction projects or large-scale engineering environments

•    Experience of working in both construction (ideally with international contractors) and operational environments

•    Excellent communication and presentation skills both written and verbal

•    Fluent in both German and English languages 

•    Good knowledge of HSE legislation (including EU Directives) 

•    Experience at developing and implementing management systems in line with ISO 45001 and 14001

•    Ability to write technical documentation to a high standard

•    Incident Investigation Experience 

•    Audit against international standards and global company standards

•    Proven track record of working with diverse multi-country teams

•    Ability to adapt and guide teams through dynamically changing environments

•    Excellent computer literacy with specific proficiency in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint

•    Additional European language an advantage

•    Chartered Membership of IOSH an advantage

Skills Vendor Management Risk Management Decision Making Building and Managing Teams Supervisory Leadership

What we offer:

Colt DCS is a growing business that is investing in its people. 

We offer skill development, learning pathways and accreditation to help our people perform at their best, regardless of role and location.

In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt DCS recognises and is committed to the importance of a work-life balance.

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