Construction Environmental Health & Safety Specialist (m/f/d)

As the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Specialist , you will help strengthen and advance our safety and environmental compliance framework across NTT Global Data Centers. This is an exciting role for a seasoned EHS professional who thrives in fast‑paced, complex environments and is confident overseeing safety and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

You will play a key role in developing, implementing, and monitoring our corporate EHS programmes, ensuring our people, sites, and operations meet the highest standards of safety, environmental protection, and regulatory compliance. You will work closely with project leadership, contractors, and internal stakeholders to champion a world‑class safety culture and embed best‑practice across construction and operational environments.

This is a Frankfurt based hybrid role offering some remote working and up to 75% travel across the Frankfurt Data Center Sites.

What will you do?

• Provide a safe work environment for employees, clients, contractors, and subcontractors. This includes, but is not limited to, conducting Construction and work area assessments and the development and facilitation of appropriate training programs
• Assess current safety programs for compliance and effectiveness, and to identify specific areas and means of improvement
• Tracks incident metrics and applies findings
• Initiate, performs, and documents jobsite inspections and audits with special emphasis on hazard recognition and identifying unsafe behaviors at construction sites with contractor’s onsite safety team
• Conduct safety meetings and training programs to ensure the effective communication of company policy and safety standards
• Facilitate safety committee meetings and related activities including the recording of minutes, corrective actions required, and action item documentation
• Review job hazard assessments and recommend measures to control exposures, including substitution of less hazardous materials, use of PPE (personal protective equipment), work practice changes and engineering controls
• Ensure injury reports are completed promptly and accurately. Conduct injury prevention meetings, recommends appropriate corrective actions, etc. in response to significant injuries
• Work with NTT project leadership, Senior Manager Construction Safety, and General Contractors (GCs) to establish strategies for safe operations.
• Review, assess and identify project trends while working with GCs to course correct gaps in the H&S programs
• Conduct routine site audits and performance to plan audits to ensure compliance with contractual requirements
• Provide periodic H&S training to include behavioral safety training

What are we looking for?

• Significant experience as an Environmental Health and Safety professional, including strong experience supporting construction projects
• Working knowledge of ISO 45001, 9001 and 14001. Knowledge of other EU directives would be a plus
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal skills, and detail oriented with strong organizational skills
• Professional and tactful with ability to maintain confidentiality
• Strong proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
• Certified Safety Professional (Chartered IOSH) or working towards

Who we are

As the third largest data center provider, we operate over 150 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions. We understand that every business – large and small – has its own unique needs and goals. We offer local-to-global data center expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centers to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime.