Health and Safety Director

Your Role

Lead Health & Safety across an assigned regional business portfolio by implementing the Global Health & Safety strategy, providing strategic leadership, governance and practical support that enables safe operational delivery. Build trusted relationships with regional leaders and ensure global standards are embedded while responding effectively to local business, regulatory and cultural requirements.

What you'll do

Regional Health & Safety Leadership

• Develop and deliver the Regional Health & Safety Plan aligned with the Global Health & Safety strategy and annual priorities.
• Lead the regional implementation of the Safely Powering Progress strategy.
• Provide strategic advice to regional leadership on performance, priorities and emerging risks.
• Promote a proactive safety culture that encourages leadership engagement, learning and continuous improvement.
• Integrate Health & Safety into planning, operational delivery and business decision making.
   

Business Partnership

• Provide strategic and operational Health & Safety support across the regional business.
• Support implementation of global standards, frameworks and minimum requirements.
• Work closely with operational leaders to develop practical solutions that enable safe business outcomes.
• Support regional delivery of global programmes, projects and change initiatives.

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with business leaders, project teams, contractors and the Global Health & Safety team.
• Influence decision making through credibility, collaboration and technical expertise.
• Coach leaders to strengthen Health & Safety capability and accountability.
   

Governance & Assurance

• Monitor regional performance using leading and lagging indicators.
• Lead or oversee investigations into significant incidents and ensure lessons learned are shared regionally and globally.
• Facilitate audits, assurance activities and management reviews.
• Support contractor governance and performance management where applicable.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation while maintaining alignment with global standards.
   

Global Collaboration

• Contribute to the development of global standards, programmes and strategic initiatives.
• Share regional insights, innovation and best practice to strengthen global capability.
• Support cross-functional projects and working groups to improve Health & Safety performance.

Key Behaviours

• Visible leadership
• Business partnering
• Collaborative
• Pragmatic
• Influential
• Accountable
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Culturally aware

Skills & Experience

• Extensive leadership experience in Health & Safety within complex operational environments.
• Experience supporting multiple business units or regions within multinational and matrix organisations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing capability.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety management systems, governance, assurance and risk management.
• Strong analytical capability with a practical, solutions-focused approach.

Success Measures
Common Measures

• Global Health & Safety standards are consistently implemented across the region.
• Regional leaders view Health & Safety as a trusted business partner.
• Governance, assurance and performance reporting support informed decision making.
• Lessons learned and collaboration drive continual improvement.

Role-specific Measures

• The Regional Health & Safety Plan is delivered in alignment with the Global Health & Safety strategy.
• Regional performance demonstrates measurable improvement.
• Leadership engagement and safety culture continue to strengthen.
• Regulatory compliance and implementation of global standards are maintained.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.