EHS Lead Specialist

Job Description Summary

Lead EHS Specialist is responsible for ensuring that an organization and its employees adhere to EHS standards and life saving rules. Responsible for shaping and maintaining organizations' safety culture. Their duties include implementing organizational safety rules, promoting a culture of safety in the workplace and performing regular site inspections to check compliance in order to prevent incidents, minimize resource leakage, improves efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Lead EHS Specialist conducts safety training for their team members and other employees. They also collaborate with other departments such as quality control and operations, work across various department within the business, reviewing safety measures to save lives and improve working standards.

• Carrying out safety risks assessments prior to starting a new project
• Reviewing all work procedures and ensuring they meet industry safety standards.
• Ensure the compliance with Safety, Occupational Health and Environment Regulations applicable to the company.
• Establish injury prevention initiatives focused on world-class health and safety performance and responsible for conducting incident investigations.
• Focal point to public relations, as associations, governmental agencies and clients.
• Feeds back on lessons learned and best practice from the region to management and employees.
• Reports on HSE performance and progress on implementation of HSE objectives and key performance indicators.
• Ensuring safe installation of equipment and overseeing external contractors
• Conducting in-house training sessions on health and safety awareness
• Act as an Ambassador by Planning/Implementing/Reviewing/ Monitoring of EHS Management System
• Interact with other cluster in the region (Europe and SSA) in order to share and leverage best practices
• Implementation & adherence to EHS Management System - GE Vernova Framework 3.0
  • Operational Safety
    • Develop /Support for Risk Assessment
    • Review & Verification of EHS Plan/Risk Assessment/Method Statement (RAMS)
    • Responsible to review the applicable LSP's as per the portfolio and implement the GE Vernova procedures and Legal HSE requirements
    • Ensure sub-contractors are approved in Comply Works
    • Ensure Pre-Mob is implemented and followed
  • Management System
    • Understand High Risk operations, EHS Core Requirement & Technical Standards
    • Develop action plans wherever gap identified.
  • Support / Review EHS requirements during ITO Stage (Inquiry-to-order / Tender stage)
• Site Management
  • Conducts accidents/incidents investigation and identify the preventative action to be implemented at site.
  • Supports Genba Walks;
• Sub-Contractor Management
  • Familiar with Comply Works, Contractor Pre-mobilization
• Inspections
  • Prepare/Track/Follow Quarterly Genba Walk Plan based on the active projects
  • Track / Inspect the EHS devices / PPEs (Personal protective equipment).
  • Conduct EHS Audits at Project Sites/Shop Floors/Warehouses/Integration facility
• Training
  • Assign trainings to employees based on the job profile through Training Tracker/GE Vernova Learning
  • Provide Training to Contingent Workers/Sub Contractors based on the job profile and tasks.
  • Organize Regulatory Trainings to applicable employees and track compliance.
• Monitoring
  • Monitor Toolbox on daily/weekly basis.
• Communication/Meetings/Reporting
  • Arrange Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly calls with relevant stakeholders
  • Monthly Reporting to Management (MOR) and liaising with Operations Leader for EHS review.

• Bachelor degree in Safety/ Occupational Health and Safety or related technical degree from an accredited university
• Proven work experience in EHS, preferably in Energy or Industrial environment
• Good command of English and Polish, German is a plus

• Previous work experience in multi-cultural environment.
• Proven Leadership & strong acumen to drive EHS culture.
• High energy, positive individual.
• Go getter with a can-do attitude.