Operations Compliance Advisor - Manchester, United Kingdom - Equinix

Equinix

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Operations Compliance Advisor

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating 245+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks.

Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments.

Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ quarters of growth.

Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of 10,000+ companies, including 2,000+ networks and 3,000 cloud and IT service providers in 32 countries spanning six continents.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions.

We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary
To assist in maintaining compliance with current occupational health and safety legislation throughout Equinix Datacenter and undertakings.

Provide comprehensive support to the health and safety manager by developing, implementing and monitoring health and safety systems across the organisation.

Responsibilities
Standards & Regulatory Requirements

Recommends the standards that will be planned and plans regulatory schedule within prescribed timeframe.
Provide support to cross functional teams by contributing to industry knowledge at various Equinix UK forums and sharing information with the business Management Systems.
Carry out accident investigations and advise of controls to prevent reoccurrence.
Analyse corrective and preventative actions to identify systemic issues/root causes and recommend broader preventive actions.
Maintain ISO 14001:2015 & ISO 45001 Management Systems for the UK operations.
Responsible for working with the Projects and Installations teams on notifiable and nonnotifiable CDM projects.
First point of contact for all Customer Audit Requests and liaison with Datacenter operations to complete

Reporting

Advises stakeholders on the development of content and types of reports to be generated.
Manages corrective action trackers, accident & incident reporting

Training

Develops and implements training plans for standards, regulatory and reporting requirements (i.e., health, safety and environmental compliance, UK).
Coordinates facilitates and conducts training inclusive of tool box talks across cross functional teams and contractors where required.
Works with UK management to assess need for new training or retraining efforts.

Datacenter & Cross-Functional Support

Leads on responses for complex requests or sensitive issues with high risk.
Provides authoritative expertise in Health and Safety.
Provides administrative support as required to EHS Manager.
Provide support to cross functional teams by engaging and completing risk assessments/method statements for operations at all UK wide Datacenters in conjunction to work activities.
Leads Datacenter and crossfunctional teams on assigned projects balancing business need/knowledge with standards requirements.
Identifies potential risks for noncompliance and leads mitigation/response efforts with external and internal groups.
Ensures work equipment on all sites are inspected, maintained and registers indicating their status updated.
Conducts workplace inspections across UK sites and collaborates with crossfunctional teams to resolve noncompliance issues.
Ensures UK sites and offices have emergency fire evacuations
Provides cross functional support by undertaking workplace adjustment and capability assessments for employees
Completes work station assessments and reports in accordance with DSE regulations.
Provides support to cross functional teams and all interested parties for health and safety information and responding to queries in a timely manner.
Take responsibility of own health and safety as required under the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 197
Performs any other reasonable task that may be required on a regular basis, either autonomously or as part of a team.
Monitors and maintain adherence to waste requirements across all Equinix UK sites.

Experience
Required

Experience in operational occupational Health and Safety and carrying out risk assessments
Good working knowledge of MS office systems
Experience in a health and safety advisory role.
Skilled communicator and presenter, able to liaise with internal colleagues across number of cross functional departments and ensure that EHS requirements are understood.
Able to work with external companies/customer end users and enfor