Senior Safety Manager - West Region presso Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is redefining how data centers are delivered—faster, smarter, and at scale. We partner with hyperscale customers to provide tailored, high-performance infrastructure with a focus on sustainability, efficiency, and flexibility.

Our experienced, end-to-end team delivers custom solutions across a growing portfolio of strategic sites in key markets across the United States. Backed by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, Rowan is committed to enabling the next generation of digital infrastructure—and building a more sustainable future in the process.

Ready to help transform how the world’s most important technologies are powered? Join us.

Role Summary

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is looking for a Senior Safety Manager West Region to join our team. The Senior Safety Manager will be responsible for implementing and overseeing Rowan’s safety programs across construction and operational data center sites. This role combines hands-on safety leadership with multi-site oversight, ensuring consistent practices that protect employees, contractors, and mission-critical construction and operations. This position includes direct oversight of Rowan’s western regional data centers and requires close partnership with operation engineering, and construction teams. The successful candidate will have excellent strategic thinking skills, organizational and communication skills, the ability to multitask, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. This position will report to the Senior Director of Safety.

Travel: Ability to travel up to (50%) for company gatherings or to project sites.

Location: Remote

Compensation: $150-$185K (Offers Bonus)

Essential Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety systems, processes, and performance across operations and projects

• Promote Rowan’s safety culture, foster proactive behaviors, accountability, and risk awareness at every level of the organization

• Track safety KPIs, deliver performance dashboards, and communicate trends to leadership

• Collaborate with general contractors and construction managers to ensure Rowan’s standards are applied on all projects

• Work with General Contractors to ensure project safety programs meet Rowan requirements prior to project kickoff

• Participate in planning and risk reviews for high-hazard work

• Oversight to Rowan’s Energy Isolation Program, ensuring consistent application of lockout/tagout (LOTO), energized work permitting, and safe electrical practices across all campuses

• Provide governance and oversight of the Energy Marshall program, ensuring qualified Energy Marshalls are assigned, trained, and actively engaged during operational and project activities

• Drive engagement initiatives that empower employees and contractors to actively participate in Rowan’s safety culture

• Support incident investigations and ensure lessons learned are implemented effectively

• Review and support the development and implementation of plans, procedures, and strategies, ensuring their consistency and effectiveness

• Promote a culture of radical transparency by capturing and analyzing all near misses and incidents to drive continuous improvement and achieve zero injuries

• Maintain and enhance policies and procedures to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices

• Conduct periodic safety inspections, document findings and ensuring timely corrective action closure

Education, Skills, and Experience

• Strong Leadership Skills

• 15+ years of safety experience within a construction delivery organization; data center experience highly desired

• A bachelor's degree in a safety-specific field such as occupational health and safety or equivalent experience

• Proven ability to lead safety initiatives across multiple sites and stakeholders

• Self-directed leader with progressive safety experience

• Strong analytical skills to evaluate safety performance data, identify trends and recommend data-driven improvements to safety programs and operations

• In-depth knowledge of OSHA regulations both Construction and General Industry

• Strong knowledge of electrical safety programs and NFPA 70E standards

• Solid knowledge of potentially hazardous materials or practices in the workplace

• Familiarity in incident investigation, injury management, and hazard analysis

• Working knowledge of safety management software, such as Procore

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• Strong communication and teamwork skills

• Strong supervisory and leadership skills

• Strong ability to build working relationships with internal and external teams

Fueled by Excellence & Collaboration

At Rowan, we are a distributed team united by a common mission to transform data center delivery. Across our two offices, we offer a hybrid work environment supported by the teamwork, technology, and in-office gathering time to help you be successful. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado and have an office in Seattle, Washington. Our team of talented and passionate individuals is spread out across the U.S.

Here to support you

At Rowan, we want to make sure you can do great work. We offer competitive benefits focused on helping you be and achieve your best.

• Hybrid working environment

• Team building and educational opportunities

• Generous benefits package including robust health benefits and a 401(k) company contribution

• Unlimited PTO

• Competitive compensation and bonus plan

Equal Opportunity Employer

Rowan Digital is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome and celebrate diversity in all aspects of our workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.