Regional Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager in Hemel Hempstead

As Regional Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Manager, you will lead and continuously improve EHS performance across multiple UK data centre locations. You will ensure compliance with UK legislation, customer requirements, and corporate standards while promoting best practice across all areas of the business. This is a highly influential role focused on driving a strong safety culture, environmental excellence, and continuous improvement within a high-risk, business-critical environment.

As the EHS subject matter expert for the UK region, you will provide specialist guidance, influence key stakeholders, ensure compliance, and contribute to wider EMEA initiatives. This hybrid role offers a high degree of flexibility and autonomy, with regular travel to UK sites in Dagenham, Hemel Hempstead, and Slough, alongside occasional travel across the EMEA region as required.

What you will do:

• Responsible for delivering continuous improvement in EHS Management to ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of employees and minimising or eliminating impacts on the environment.
• Provision of competent person role as required under The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and delivery of EHS advisory services, along with assessments, inspections, investigations, audits, consultation, etc.
• Maintaining EHS systems, processes, documentation, and arrangements to ensure effective service support across EMEA, delivering legislative, best practice, and company rules compliance.
• Point of contact for external bodies (HSE, EA) as well as hyperscale and colocation clients/representatives.
• Deliver high-quality EHS services and function as a 'Super User' of our EHS Enterprise System (Interlex). Monitor EHS performance, analyse trends, report on KPIs, and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with applicable health, safety, and environmental legislation and manage regulatory engagement where required (point of contact for HSE and EA).
• Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, audits, inspections, and behavioural safety programs, support projects, change management activities, and facilitate employee consultation and participation processes.
• Support Environmental Management System (ISO 14001) arrangements, including waste, hazardous waste, water, pollution prevention, permitting, sustainability, carbon reduction, ESG reporting, and environmental performance monitoring.
• Develop and deliver EHS training, communications, awareness initiatives as well as ongoing development of zero harm and behavioural safety improvements.
• Support requirements for internal and external audits, maintaining certifications to ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 standards.

What are we looking for:

• Significant experience in an Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) role, with a strong understanding of regulatory compliance and best practice.
• Proven history of advising, supporting, or managing Health, Safety and Environmental functions across multiple site/locations.
• Experience engaging with UK regulators including the HSE and Environment Agency.
• Experience in EHS advisory roles, leading audits, inspections, and incident investigations.
• Possess and evidence effective communication and relationship management skills.
• Experience within data centres, critical infrastructure, utilities, manufacturing, or other high-risk operational environments.
• NEBOSH Diploma (Level 6) in Occupational Health & Safety or equivalent qualification.
• Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH) or demonstrable progression toward Chartered status.
• Relevant environmental qualifications and experience including awareness of environmental permitting, waste compliance, and pollution control.

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.