Director, Environmental Health & Safety, NA

Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

This role is based on-site in Abilene, Texas. The Director, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) will serve as the Owner/Developer’s senior site EHS leader for Project Frontier, a large-scale AI data center development in Abilene, Texas. The role is accountable for governing and executing the established EHS strategy across white space construction, equipment installation, testing, commissioning, and turnover activities. This position will provide visible field leadership and independent assurance across the retained General Contractor, OFCI vendors, commissioning teams, and specialty trade partners.

The Director will integrate EHS into planning and execution, establish clear accountability across interfaces, and ensure that high-risk work is properly planned, controlled, verified, and escalated when required.

• Lead execution of the established Owner/Developer EHS strategy for Project Frontier’s white space scope, serving as the senior EHS authority across all assigned construction and commissioning activities and delivery partners.
• Build, lead, coach, and deploy the EHS team based on project risk, schedule, work intensity, and changing field conditions.
• Partner with Construction, Commissioning, Operations, Engineering, Security, and project leadership to integrate EHS into project decisions and execution planning.
• Provide EHS governance for data halls, critical electrical and mechanical systems, controls, OFCI equipment, battery and energy-storage interfaces, testing, start-up, and integrated systems activities.
• Ensure EHS involvement in constructability reviews, work packaging, sequencing, system energization, turnover boundaries, and commissioning readiness.
• Oversee controls for high-risk work, including energized electrical work, LOTO and energy isolation, temporary power, arc-flash exposure, work at height, lifting and rigging, confined spaces, hot work, chemical management, and simultaneous operations.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local EHS requirements, Owner standards, project requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Lead or oversee significant incident and high-potential near-miss investigations using effective root-cause methods.

• Maintain a strong field presence and reinforce stop-work authority, leadership accountability, and timely escalation of unresolved high-risk conditions.
• Verify that work plans, JSAs/JHAs, method statements, permits, commissioning procedures, and contingency plans are specific, coordinated, understood, and executable in the field.
• Develop and execute a risk-based assurance plan using project risk registers, look-ahead schedules, and field intelligence, leading audits, inspections, readiness reviews, and critical control verifications while ensuring corrective actions are effectively tracked and closed.
• Maintain accurate EHS records and provide concise reporting on leading indicators, significant risks, contractor performance, trends, incidents, and leadership support required.
• Establish clear EHS roles and accountability across project stakeholders while reviewing and challenging contractor and vendor EHS plans, staffing, risk assessments, permits, and high-risk work controls to ensure alignment across all work streams.
• Hold delivery partners accountable for timely incident notification, investigation quality, corrective action, and verified prevention of recurrence.
• Influence senior project leaders and external partners without relying solely on direct authority.
• Coordinate incident and emergency management activities, including notification, evidence preservation, reporting, corrective actions, lessons learned, preparedness planning, response drills, and event management.
• Additional duties as assigned by Management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Occupational Safety, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
• Typically 10+ years of progressive EHS experience in complex…