Director, Environmental Health & Safety, NA

Vantage Data Centers

Shackelford County, TX

Full Time

Posted October 7, 2026

$162k - $202k· Est.

Climate Technology

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Job Description

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.

Key Responsibilities

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 workstreams.
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.

Requirements

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 construction, commissioning, mission-critical, industrial, or infrastructure environments.
Demonstrated leadership of EHS programs, teams, and contractor performance on large, fast-paced projects.
Strong working knowledge of OSHA construction requirements and the practical application of the hierarchy of controls.
Ability to interpret project plans, schedules, work packages, risk assessments, method statements, and commissioning documentation.
Proven ability to communicate with field teams and executive stakeholders, make sound risk-based decisions, and act decisively when critical controls are not effective.
Data center, hyperscale, AI infrastructure, or other mission-critical construction experience.
Owner/Developer or owner’s representative experience overseeing a retained GC and multiple vendor-led workstreams.
Experience managing white space construction, OFCI installation, commissioning readiness, energized environments, and construction-to-operations transitions.
Professional certification such as CSP, CHST, CIH, or an equivalent recognized EHS credential.
OSHA 500/510, NEBOSH, ISO 45001 Lead Auditor, or relevant electrical-safety and incident-investigation training.
Experience with risk registers, assurance programs, contractor performance metrics, action-tracking systems, and executive reporting.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.