Project Health & Safety Lead - Malaysia

Based in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, the Project Health & Safety Manager, is accountable for Health & Safety performance across EdgeConneX’s campus build.

This role oversess the prevention of serious incidents, consistent application of standards, and closure of corrective actions across operational sites, offices, and construction handover into steady-state operations.

This role will include the prevention of serious incidents through high-risk activity management processes, emergency response planning, safety in datacenter operations, and construction/contractor safety.

The role is responsible for monitoring risk, trending leading and lagging metrics, and developing reports used to drive accountability and corrective action. This role serves as the project safety manager working directly out partner.

The position balances hands-on field engagement, incident management, custome joint audits, metrics, and project level reporting.

This is a 5-day site based job, with requirement to travel internationally when required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain EdgeConneX global Health & Safety programs, standards, and procedures.
• Serve as the primary Health & Safety point of contact for assigned data centers and campus.
• Drive prevention of serious incidents through co-operating with BCEI management team and theor site project based H&S teams, oversight and monitoring of high-risk activity management, permit-to-work, and ensuring a calm and consistant in field presence is maintained.
• Conduct site audits, inspections, and assessments to verify compliance with OSHA, local regulations, company standards, and customer requirements.
• Monitor and track incident notification, investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action tracking.
• Ensuring findings from incidents, audits, and inspections are resolved, verified, and not repeated and the root cause action points are fully implemented.
• Maintain oversight of OSHA logs, regulatory filings, and required safety documentation.
• Monitor leading and lagging indicators, trend data, and site performance to drive accountability and corrective action.
• Support internal, external, and customer-driven audits, including evidence collection and closure tracking.
• Ensure Health & Safety requirements are embedded into SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, MTAs, and emergency drills.
• Provide subject matter expertise for operational and construction-related safety risks.
• When required engage with regulatory agencies as required and manage related correspondence.
• Drive a standardized and consistent Health & Safety approach in Malaysia.
• Maintain regular site presence through travel to support operational alignment and oversight.

Experience/Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Safety, Health & Safety, Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressive Health & Safety experience supporting multiple sites (operations and construction interface), preferably in critical infrastructure or industrial environments.
• OSHA 30 certification required.
• Demonstrated experience leading incident investigations and driving corrective actions to verified closure across a distributed portfolio.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or equivalent strongly preferred.
• Strong Understanding of the Data Center risk profile; direct experience leading health & safety within a hyperscale data center strongly preferred.
• Experience building and operating practical Health & Safety management systems (audits, training compliance, metrics, and action tracking).
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and supporting audit expectations (evidence quality, reporting, closure).
• Experience in envnironmental is an added advantage

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EdgeConneX offers a competitive benefits package.

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