Data Centre Safety Engineer

Location: Europe; remote workplace with regular site presence, travel between sites and occasional travel to other regions required.

Salary: €95K–€130K per year, plus equity and bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform building dependable compute infrastructure from capital and data centre clusters to software.

What you will do

• Implement and continuously improve the site health and safety management system in line with local regulations and hirify.global policies.
• Identify hazards, conduct risk assessments and RAMS, contribute to arc flash studies, and maintain safe systems of work.
• Lead incident and near-miss reporting, investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions through closure.
• Manage contractor safety processes, including pre-qualification, inductions, supervision standards, and performance monitoring.
• Plan and deliver inspections, audits, compliance checks, safety training, toolbox talks, and awareness campaigns.
• Monitor and report safety KPIs, update procedures for legislative changes, and support continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety, electrical or mechanical engineering, or related demonstrated experience.
• 3–5 years of health and safety experience in data centres, mission-critical facilities, utilities, nuclear, aircraft, or heavy industrial environments.
• Proven experience deploying or administering safe systems of work and leading safety incident investigations.
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation, regulations, and codes of practice applicable to the relevant region or location.
• Knowledge of risk assessment methodologies and the hierarchy of controls.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, strong written and verbal communication, report writing and training delivery skills.
• High attention to detail, integrity, commitment to a generative safety culture, and the ability to build collaborative relationships across teams.
• Regular site presence is required, including work in noisy and/or restricted-access environments; background and security screening is required.

Nice to have

• Recognised health and safety qualification, such as the NEBOSH General Certificate, Diploma, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting data centre build-out.
• Experience implementing or maintaining an ISO 45001 management system.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive, trusted environment focused on growth, impact, and work-life balance.
• Equity in hirify.global and competitive salary based on the work performed.
• Retirement or pension contributions and comprehensive health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.
• Generous annual vacation allowance.
• Benefits vary by country according to local regulations; employment offers are conditional on right-to-work, employment-history, and criminal-record screening where permitted by law.