EHS Engineer

Job Description Summary

At GE Aerospace, we are advancing the future of flight through a relentless focus on Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost and through FLIGHT DECK, our proprietary operating system that develops and empowers our people.. The EHS Engineer plays a critical role in supporting a safe, compliant, and operationally effective work environment across manufacturing, engineering, test, and site support functions.
This role partners closely with operations, maintenance, engineering, and leadership teams to identify and reduce risk, ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety requirements, and drive continuous improvement. The role is expected to apply FLIGHT DECK principles by helping teams establish standard work, use daily and visual management to expose gaps, and drive disciplined problem solving and action planning to improve site performance.
The ideal candidate brings strong technical knowledge, practical problem-solving capability, and the ability to influence teams at all levels while demonstrating the GE Aerospace behaviors of Respect for People, Continuous Improvement, and Customer Driven, always with unyielding integrity.

Job Description

Company Overview:

Are you ready to see your career take flight? At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. We have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen.

Site Overview:

For more than 40 years, our advanced facilities in Singapore have led aerospace innovation across the Asia Pacific region. From automating processes to leveraging smart factory technologies, robotics, and additive manufacturing, GE Aerospace is shaping the future of aviation. Responsible for more than 60% of our global repair volume, our Singapore site is the largest site for engine component maintenance, repair and overhaul work. We can’t do this work without talented people like you.

Join us and be part of our journey to innovate and excel in the aerospace industry.

Role Overview:

• Support and lead site environmental, health, and safety programs in alignment with business, regulatory, and customer requirements

• Partner with manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, and support teams to identify hazards and implement effective risk reduction actions

• Establish, improve, and sustain standard work for key EHS processes, recognizing that standard work documents and visualizes the best-known way to complete a task or process today and forms the foundation for continuous improvement and sustainment.

• Conduct and support risk assessments, job hazard analyses, ergonomic evaluations, audits, inspections, and compliance reviews

• Investigate incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions; lead or facilitate root cause analysis, structured problem solving, and corrective action development to close gaps in performance and drive impact to SQDC..

• Drive timely closure of corrective and preventive actions and verify effectiveness of implemented controls

• Use daily and visual management practices to help teams visualize targets and results, track progress to goals, problem solve when off plan, and review process effectiveness.

• Support visual management and action follow-up using standard FLIGHT DECK components including:

  • Performance measures tied to SQDIP

  • Gap analysis using TAGS (trend, actual, gap, standard)

  • Actions and escalations with specific action, owner, expected completion date, expected impact, and current status.

• Monitor site EHS performance metrics, identify trends, and communicate results, risks, and priorities to site leadership

• Support compliance with applicable federal, state, local, permit, and company EHS requirements

• Assist with management of environmental programs including, as applicable, hazardous waste, air emissions, wastewater, stormwater, chemical management, and required reporting

• Support implementation and sustainment of programs such as lockout/tagout, machine guarding, PPE, fall protection, confined space, contractor safety, ergonomics, and hazard communication

• Deliver, coordinate, or support EHS training for employees, leaders, and contractors

• Participate in emergency preparedness planning, drills, and response coordination

• Partner with frontline teams and leaders at genba to proactively expose problems, remove barriers, and support real-time problem solving to meet customer expectations.

• Contribute to kaizen activity and continuous improvement efforts that improve EHS performance, operational stability, and employee engagement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in Engineering, Environmental Science, Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or related field

• At least 5 years of experience in environmental, health, and safety, manufacturing, industrial operations, or related technical field

• Registered with the Ministry of Manpower as a Workplace Safety and Health Officer (WSHO) and SCDF Fire Safety Manager (FSM).

• Strong knowledge of Singapore’s WSH legislation and compliance requirements

• Experience with incident investigation, structured problem solving, and corrective action management

• Ability to work in a team-based environment where performance is measured and actions are managed through regular operating cadences and visual management 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across functions and organizational levels

• Demonstrated ability to analyze issues, prioritize actions, and drive execution in an operational environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong commitment to safety, compliance, and respect for people 

• Action-oriented with a practical and disciplined approach to execution

• Effective facilitator of cross-functional problem solving and kaizen

• Comfortable working both strategically and tactically

• Strong data analysis, organization, and follow-through skills

• Clear communicator with the ability to engage hourly employees, technical teams, and site leadership

• Demonstrated mindset of continuous improvement 

• Willingness to expose problems, engage associates, drive accountability, ask questions, check for understanding, and lead from the front 

• Ability to create urgency around closing gaps and sustaining improvements through standardization and follow-up 

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At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

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