Environment, Health and Safety Manager (Land Development)

Construction Project Safety Advisor, Land Development

Location: New Albany, OH

Duration: 18 month contract with extensions / potential to convert

Job Description: Insight Global is seeking an experienced and professional Construction Project Safety Advisor to join an Early Works & Land Development organization for one of our largest technology clients to assist with greenfield construction of a new state of the art data center. This person is responsible for delivering datacenter campus sites to a condition ready for permanent works to support construction of Data Centers. The Early Works Construction Program oversees the planning, compliance, and progress of the Early Works for onsite delivery of projects with a wide variety of unique requirements favoring civil specialties including site earthworks, building demolition, environmental remediation, grading and vegetation removal, and substation pad construction. This person will support the project management team in monitoring the contractor’s implementation of the Site-Specific Safety Plan. All projects will involve the management of significant High-Risk Activities (HRA) both on individual sites and cumulatively across all of the project works. Primary risks will include, but not be limited to excavations, mobile equipment, vehicle traffic, material handling, lifting activities, electrical, and working from heights.

Key Project Objectives:

Ensure Client complies with the national statutory EHS requirements for each construction project.

Where practicable implement best practice, and lessons learned, across each project.

Enhance, and improve, existing construction safety management procedures through a visible on-site presence, and through active participation in all aspects of day-to-day EHS management on the projects

Assist on an as needed basis in the development of specific safety programs.

Provide an independent review, and monitoring of construction Health & Safety management procedures in place for each project; with a view to cross-evaluation of projects, sharing lessons learned / best practice, and driving continuous improvement across the client construction supply chain.

Required Skills & Experience:

Minimum 10 years’ experience in a role with formal qualification in EHS management., with relevant experience in construction Health & Safety.

CHST

Civil Engineering background/Land Development

Good communication skills, both written and verbal, with extensive experience in contractor communications, liaising with design teams, and other project professionals.

Degree and/or certification in Health & Safety profession.

Good to strong computer skills, with experience in EHS database programs.

Non-restrictive Driver’s License and a vehicle to commute between multiple campuses in the area.

Plusses:

CHST Certification

Previous data center experience

Civil engineering background