Datacenter Site Supervisor

About the role

You will supervise day-to-day activity at a datacenter site for a colocation provider where construction contractors, customer visitors, maintenance vendors, and technicians all share the same facility. You are the authority on the ground: approving work permits, inducting visitors and contractors, enforcing safety and security rules, coordinating competing activities, and responding first when anything goes wrong. Your leadership presence and firm, fair enforcement keep a complex, busy site safe, secure, and orderly every single shift. Note: this title is scoped at Mid-level per house leveling rules (no seniority prefix), supervising site activity and contractors within defined procedures rather than managing engineering teams. You will be the steady hand that keeps a busy, complex site running safely every single day.

What you will achieve

• Keep the site incident-free through rigorous work permitting, contractor induction, and visible enforcement of safety and security rules with every person on site.
• Coordinate concurrent activities (maintenance windows, construction work, customer visits, deliveries) with clear scheduling and communication so nothing conflicts or creates risk.
• Achieve permit approval turnaround within agreed SLAs by reviewing method statements promptly and thoroughly rather than rubber-stamping them.
• Respond to site incidents as the first authority on scene, securing the area, initiating response procedures, and escalating with accurate facts within target times.
• Maintain site documentation (access logs, permit records, incident reports, shift logs) complete and accurate, supporting audits, customer inquiries, and investigations.

What you will bring

Must-haves

• 2 to 5 years of datacenter, facilities, construction supervision, or similar site responsibility experience.
• Leadership presence: firm, fair, and consistent enforcement of rules with contractors and visitors of all seniority levels.
• Understanding of datacenter safety and security protocols: work permits, hot work, confined space awareness, and access control.
• Strong communication and conflict resolution skills for managing competing demands on a busy site.
• Ability to write clear incident reports and to document decisions defensibly.
• High school diploma or equivalent; safety certifications valued.

Nice-to-haves

• OSHA 30, IOSH Managing Safely, or equivalent safety qualification.
• Experience with construction-phase datacenter supervision and commissioning awareness.
• Familiarity with change control and MOP processes in live environments.
• First aid and incident management training.