Manager, Health and Safety

Health & Safety Specialist – Lead Safety Initiatives for Exciting New Data Center Start-Ups!

Location: Kansas City, Mo

Travel Required: 50–75% | Multiple Locations

Are you a passionate Health & Safety professional who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys working closely with operational teams, and takes pride in creating safe workplaces? This is your opportunity to play a key role in launching new data center operations with a global logistics leader!

We are seeking a proactive and hands-on Health & Safety Specialist to lead safety initiatives for traveling teams responsible for assembling, placing, and setting up data towers at new data center locations. This role will focus on developing site-specific safety plans, conducting risk assessments, ensuring regulatory compliance, and promoting a strong safety culture throughout each project.

If you're passionate about workplace safety, enjoy identifying and preventing risks, and thrive in dynamic environments where your expertise makes a real impact — we want to hear from you!

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Lead health and safety initiatives for new data center start-up projects

• Play a key role in establishing safe work practices across multiple locations

• Work closely with Operations, customer safety teams, and site leadership

• Develop safety programs, conduct inspections, and drive accident prevention initiatives

• Help build a strong safety-first culture for traveling operational teams

• Gain hands-on experience supporting new site launches and project-based operations

• Travel to new locations and lead safety activities as projects progress

• Join a growing global organization with opportunities for professional growth

What You'll Do

• Lead health and safety activities for traveling teams supporting new data center start-up projects

• Develop, implement, and maintain site-specific safety plans, procedures, and risk assessments aligned with company policies and customer requirements

• Conduct routine safety inspections, workplace audits, and hazard assessments to identify and address potential risks

• Ensure compliance with applicable OSHA regulations, environmental requirements, and established customer safety standards

• Oversee safe work practices related to material handling, equipment movement, assembly activities, and equipment placement

• Provide safety orientations, training, and ongoing guidance to employees, contractors, and other onsite personnel

• Investigate workplace incidents, accidents, and near misses to identify root causes and implement corrective and preventive actions

• Maintain accurate safety documentation, inspection reports, incident records, and compliance-related materials

• Partner with Operations leadership and customer safety teams to identify hazards, resolve safety concerns, and support safe project execution

• Monitor safety performance metrics, identify trends, and recommend improvements to reduce workplace injuries and operational risks

• Ensure employees follow proper safety procedures, use required personal protective equipment (PPE), and comply with established work practices

• Support internal and external safety audits, address findings, and monitor corrective action completion

• Develop and deliver safety training programs focused on hazard awareness, accident prevention, and safe equipment operation

• Communicate safety concerns, incident trends, and corrective action progress to site leadership and appropriate stakeholders

• Support continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen workplace safety practices and employee engagement

• Travel to subsequent data center locations to establish and oversee health and safety activities as each new project begins

What We're Looking For

• Experience in occupational health and safety, environmental health and safety (EHS), or workplace safety within warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, construction, or similar operational environments

• Strong understanding of OSHA regulations, workplace safety standards, and hazard prevention practices

• Experience developing and implementing safety programs, conducting risk assessments, and performing workplace inspections

• Knowledge of incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action processes

• Experience providing safety training, employee orientations, and workplace hazard awareness programs

• Familiarity with safe material handling practices, equipment operation, and operational safety requirements

• Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Ability to partner effectively with Operations leadership, employees, contractors, and customer representatives

• Experience maintaining safety records, compliance documentation, and inspection reports

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple safety priorities in fast-paced environments

• Willingness and flexibility to travel approximately 50–75% to support new project locations

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety and Health, Environmental Health & Safety, Industrial Safety, or a related field preferred

• Experience supporting new site launches, operational start-ups, or project-based safety programs

• Background in data center operations, equipment installation, construction, logistics, or technology infrastructure environments

• Knowledge of ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and applicable environmental and safety management standards

• OSHA 10-Hour or OSHA 30-Hour training

• First Aid/CPR certification or First Responder training

• Experience conducting internal safety audits and supporting external regulatory or customer audits

• Familiarity with DOT compliance, EPA regulations, and material handling equipment safety

• Experience using safety reporting systems, incident tracking tools, and safety performance dashboards

• Professional safety certifications such as ASP, CSP, or CHST are a plus

Join DP World and Help Build Something Great!

At DP World , we are transforming global logistics through innovation, teamwork, and operational excellence.

This is more than a Health & Safety position — it's an opportunity to protect employees, establish strong safety standards, and help ensure successful execution of new data center projects.

If you're ready to champion workplace safety, drive continuous improvement, and make a lasting impact across multiple locations, apply today!

About the Role

How you will contribute

• Identify, develop, and maintain company health and safety management systems, training programs, and procedures in line with all current legislation for the assigned country(s). Perform monthly safety inspections and maintenance.
• Represent the company at external audits on all health and safety matters. Ensure compliance to audit standards and work with auditors and vendors to answer findings and complaints in a timely, efficient and professional manner.
• Design and develop written health and safety procedures. Monitor, revise, and implement ongoing updates in safety regulations, laws or reporting requirements. Provide technical safety and health support and information to all employees.
• Responsible for the co-coordination of risk assessment activities including record keeping. Analysis of risk assessment, near miss and accident data to presenting to the senior management team. Develop long term strategies to reduce accidents that are data driven.
• Investigate accidents to include gathering all documentation in line with company policies, compiling all documentation relating to any insurance claims made against the company, and liaising with insurance companies, solicitors and other related organizations in pursuit of insurance claims.
• Develop & deliver safety training programs to reduce work place accidents and incidents including assessment of such training activities. Administer mandatory safety training and ensure all newly hired employees, agency employees, contractors, visitors and transferred employees receive proper training.
• Represent the company at any internal safety meetings, customer or supplier safety meetings presenting data, recording actions, and monitoring the progress of those actions.
• Work with the operational teams to improve the working environment and reduce the impacts to the employee from operational activities as well as recommend process and product safety features that will reduce employees' exposure to work hazards.
• Inspect facilities, machinery, and safety equipment to identify and correct potential hazards, and to ensure safety and environmental regulation compliance. This will include property in and around the facility. Review plans and specifications for development of new machinery, equipment or processes to determine whether all safety requirements have been met. Manage and support all documentation related to material handling equipment.
• Other duties as assigned

Your Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety and Health is preferred with a minimum of certification in the designated country for health, safety, and environment. 

• Experience in a health and safety role, preferably in a warehouse or manufacturing environment as well as experience in developing and administering health and safety programs.
• Familiar with country specific health and safety standards including OSHA, ISO, and internal audit qualifications. Understanding of DOT compliance and EPA environmental regulations.
• OSHA 10 hour or Basic Knowledge of Plant Safety and Current First Aid/CPR First Responder Training desired.
• Strong organizational and communication skills. Able to work and be flexible and available for on call hours before and/or after normal business hours in addition to off-shift hours.
• Able to travel 50-75% and manage multiple facilities.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally. 

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 111,000 employees from 159 nationalities, spanning 77 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures – not just in what we do but also in how we behave.

We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what’s possible.

The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.