Data Centre Safety Manager
Paris-based AI company building frontier models, AI applications, developer tools, and compute infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector deployments.
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI develops open-weight and commercial language models and provides a full-stack AI platform spanning agents, application development, custom-model training, APIs, and AI cloud infrastructure.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the operational health and safety framework for data center sites. You will establish standards, assess high-risk work, review safety documentation, coordinate emergency planning, investigate incidents, and verify corrective actions. You will advise technical teams, contractors, and site partners on safe operations, including electrical work, cooling systems, construction activities, and live data-center changes.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of practical health and safety experience in operational, industrial, construction, or mission-critical environments
- Experience implementing safety programs, contractor controls, inspections, risk assessments, investigations, and training
- Working knowledge of occupational safety regulations and high-risk work controls
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Fluent professional English
- Ability to work regularly on site and travel between data center locations
- Valid driving licence where required for site access
Responsibilities
- Own the operational health and safety management framework for the data center portfolio
- Interpret occupational health and safety requirements and translate them into site-level controls
- Lead risk assessments, inspections, assurance reviews, and corrective-action verification
- Establish site-access, induction, contractor onboarding, and safety-training arrangements
- Develop safety indicators and present recommendations to leadership
- Define safety requirements for suppliers and technical service partners
- Oversee electrical work, isolation, lockout/tagout, switching, and arc-flash risks
- Assess safe systems of work for deliveries, lifting, batteries, working at height, and high-density IT installation
- Review method statements, risk assessments, permits to work, and job safety analyses
- Support engineering teams on liquid-cooling and pressurized-circuit risks
- Participate in readiness reviews for energization, commissioning, and deployments
- Coordinate emergency planning and drills
- Lead investigations of incidents, unsafe conditions, and near misses
- Coach personnel and vendors to identify hazards and stop unsafe work
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances
