Data Center Safety Lead

** Both Day and Night Shifts available

** This is a 100% travel-based role.

The Data Center Safety Lead provides strategic safety oversight, program leadership, and operational safety direction across assigned data center, warehouse, construction-adjacent, and deployment environments within North America. This role serves as the senior safety authority for the Milestone Service, ensuring adherence to OSHA requirements, client safety standards, and Statement of Work (SOW) safety and training obligations while driving a best-in-class safety culture.

The Safety Lead is responsible for leading root cause analysis and mitigation for all safety incidents, analyzing safety observations and trends to predict and prevent areas of concern, developing and enforcing training programs, and aligning safety performance with operational and client expectations. This role directly oversees DC Safety Coordinators and partners with operations leadership, construction management, client safety representatives, and cross-functional teams to ensure safety is embedded as a core operating standard across all logistics and deployment activities.

Direct Reports: Data Center Safety Coordinators report to this role.

This role operates within and provides safety oversight across active data center construction and deployment environments. The Safety Lead may work in or around construction zones, loading docks, staging areas, equipment pathways, partially completed data halls, and areas with ongoing trade activity. Work conditions may include exposure to moving equipment, construction materials, uneven surfaces, elevated noise levels, changing access routes, and other hazards commonly associated with active construction sites.

As the senior safety leader, this role is expected to set the safety standard for all personnel, conduct field-level safety assessments, validate that hazard controls and safety programs are functioning as designed, and drive immediate corrective action when conditions are unsafe or outside approved procedures. The Safety Lead holds authority to stop work across assigned operations and elevate systemic safety risks to senior management and client leadership.

Required Personal Protective Equipment must be worn at all times while operating in designated construction or deployment areas and may include, but is not limited to:

• Hard hat
• Steel-toed safety boots
• High-visibility vest or approved high-visibility clothing
• Safety eyewear / eye protection
• Work gloves
• Hearing protection (as required by area or task)

Safety Program Leadership & Strategy

• Lead the overall safety focus, program direction, and risk mitigation strategy across assigned North American sites and operations.
• Serve as the senior safety authority and primary safety escalation point for the Milestone Service within assigned region.
• Ensure safety and training compliance aligns with Statement of Work (SOW) responsibilities and meets expected standards of operational safety.
• Partner with internal teams and client to produce a best-in-class safety service that meets or exceeds contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve safety programs, policies, procedures, and standards to reduce risk and drive safety performance improvement.
• Set expectations, priorities, and performance standards for DC Safety Coordinators; provide direction, mentorship, and accountability.
• Represent safety in business reviews, client meetings, operational planning sessions, and cross-functional leadership discussions.

• Lead root cause analysis and mitigation for all safety incidents across North America.
• Ensure root cause analysis is…