EHS Specialist

Job Description Summary

The EHS specialist provides day-to-day EHS direct support for a set of sites within a region or department, considering all WTG generators within the region, warehouses and service sites, field technicians, managers, contractors, and staff within the define scope. They are the first line contact for the field service engineers as they manage day to day EHS issues in service work, and the tasks are related to training, inspections, customer interaction around planning and job execution.

Job Description

• To interpret Laws, Regulations and Procedures, considering all relevant local / national EHS standards in the organization
• This role is part of “Servicio de Prevención Mancomunado” for GE Wind Energy, S.L. / GE Renovables España, S.L. in Spain. It applies to Fixed Facilities, Project & Service operations and Office.
• Prepare EHS Documentation for products and processes if needed and review any other documents prepared by other areas to provide EHS assessment.
• Ensure customer EHS requirements are being properly followed to guarantee the access of GE Vernova employees and contractors to the customer site.
• Update, support, develop and implement site procedures and develop updates when needed according to GE Vernova management system processes and procedures and local regulation.
• Regularly review the sites Emergency Plan, ensuring all required materials and equipment is in place, where required it is tested, and the persons required to use it are trained.
• To train people to understand laws, regulations, and procedures, offering guide to risk mitigation when necessary and advocating for ongoing improvements to equipment and people safety through engineering controls, developing risk assessments.
• Support Site Manager at GE Vernova EHS programs implementation
• Ensure Emergency drills are carried out at least quarterly; these may be focused on specific events, rather than a full site evacuation each quarter.
• To verify that products, equipment’s and tools delivered to the sites meet internal standards for safety, following up contractors and Major Components Exchange/Blades team mobilizations, ensuring proper approval and documentation availability.
• Direct EHS site support and assessment during major operations in your area or others.
• Regular scheduled Audit activities: Simplified Work Plan, Legal and GE documentation compliance for GE Vernova and contractors, Site inspections within own scope and other regions and countries.
• Manage site inspections carried out by regulatory agencies.
• Manage the retention of the EHS required documentation in the Site EHS files.
• Oversee the management of PPE for GE Vernova staff and visitors.
• Perform Simplified Work Plan audits, reporting and registering following the region audit plan
• Support contractor mobilization and MCE / Blades teams on the wind farms of region ensuring that requirements are up to date and supporting services organization when required.
• Ensure that any compliance GE Vernova applications like Gensuite, Comply Works and SGS are fully implemented and in compliance with customer and GE Vernova requirements and local regulations
• Reporting systems: Review periodically all information reported, ensuring correct recording, assigned responsibilities, deadlines, and proper event closing
• Represent GE Vernova, if required, in local EHS working groups and wind regional community
• Ensure compliance with Laws, Regulations and Procedures
• Support and Drive the achievement of a Zero Harm Culture
• To recognize trends and patterns, taking and advising actions to avert potential risks before they create an incident
• Ensure that all applicable EHS incidents are reported in a timely fashion, investigated properly, and classified and reported according to GE Vernova requirements and applicable governmental regulations. 
• Manage any on site incidents/accidents to ensure the required actions are implemented expediently and assist with conducting accident/incident investigations.
• join and support the team investigation
• Provide training and guidance in investigation and root cause analysis.
• Assess Injuries related work relatedness and recordability
• Periodic review events recorded at the Gensuite assuring data accuracy.
• implement initiatives and programs designed to reduce injuries within all sites within your area of influence
• Collaborate in the development of the yearly training and learning plan and ensure implementation in your area
• support local initiatives for equipment guarding standards and the engineering of safer tools and machines.
• To influence stakeholders
• Liaise with Contractors/Subcontractors, local medical services, local fire and police departments, local regulatory agencies, and Customer/Client on EHS related matters.
• Advise the management of GE Vernova of unsafe acts/conditions observed on the field for prompt corrective action to eliminate the unsafe act/condition.  
• Maintain follow up activities with field technicians at least biweekly.
• Provide input for site level EHS goals and objectives
• Meet regularly with site managers to understand local needs for support
• To be able to identify main stakeholder and advocate with each one of them to provide win-win situations, while providing safety protection to employees and working environment while avoiding ineffective or inefficient solutions
• Serve as coach, mentor, and trainer for local management team, including site managers and other key leaders in safety, being able to implement continuous improvement initiatives cross-functionally.
• Support Region EHS Manager and Service Director in decision taking for the region
• Support and motivate the employees and people leader to assess the risks, while providing EHS guidance.
• To provide Factual and Effective Communication
• Presenting factual, understandable information to a variety of constituencies both external and internal to ensure public and employee confidence
• Conduct EHS trainings and awareness sessions to all personnel in the assigned areas, adapting terminology and language as necessary to ensure proper learning and knowledge transfer.
• Ensure periodical EHS meetings are held in all levels to involve the organization and , facilitating the preparation and formally recording information, supporting and facilitating the preparation.
• Identify best management practices that may be of use to other sites and communicate these to the EHS and service team.
• Ensure that the risk assessment/JSA is communicated to anyone who is involved or could be affected by the task before the task begins.
• Be the advisor and guide to site managers on deployment of EHS strategy, relevant changes in the regulations, and initiatives to improve performance in EHS.
• Follow up and communicate local EHS metric per established schedules, supporting site managers in its interpretation

KEEP FOCUS ON STRATEGIC AND BUSINESS VISION

• Ensures that all local EHS activities relate to vision safe and other vision initiatives
• Reinforce EHS Zero Harm vision and strategy in all activities, trainings, meetings, and communications
• Contributes to the development, ensure alignment, and follow up to the region EHS action plan, while deploy and adapt global and regional plans and strategies to its area of responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Technical background in electricity, mechanical, etc.
• Locally Professional master's degree EHS (Técnico Superior PRL with 3 technical qualifications in Ergonomic, Industrial Hygiene and Safety at Work).
• Physical condition and fitness to climb a wind turbine.
• Good knowledge and understanding of local and other region rules/regulations framework, interactions between authorities.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft office, web-based tools.
• Technical Expert level in technical EHS specific knowledge.
• Technical skills: Skilled level in EHS Risk Assessment, EHS Guidelines and Processes, EHS Audits and Assessments, Regulatory Compliance, Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis and EHS Management System; Process development and optimization, continuous improvement and lean, awareness level in Security and Crisis Management.
• Soft Skills: Skilled level in Influence and communication, resilience and change management, performance, resources and conflict management, Employee relations and team engagement, vision and goals setting and analytical problem solving.
• Language: Fluent English skills, Spanish and Catalan (written and spoken)
• Experience: 5 years of experience in wind field operations and/or EHS, ideally in wind business
• Availability to travel 50% of the time.

Desired requirements:

• Familiar with Health and Safety and Environmental regulatory requirements.
• Familiar with ISO 45001, 14001 Certifications framework
• GWO (Global Wind Organization) qualifications (WINDA code).
• Technical background as a Wind Turbine Technician is a considered an advantage.

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