Senior HSE Manager – EPC/EPCM Projects

Ramboll is hiring a Senior HSE Manager to provide senior health, safety, and environmental leadership across its EPC/EPCM project portfolio in the Americas. The role establishes consistent HSE governance, aligns contractors and project teams, supports high-risk work planning, and helps ensure safe delivery across multiple projects.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of a portfolio-wide HSE approach that enables consistent standards, scalable processes, and project-specific execution across all EPC/EPCM projects
• Serve as primary HSE advisor to Project Directors and EPC/EPCM leadership teams
• Drive adoption of Ramboll’s HSE program and translate its expectations into practical project-level behaviours, controls, and leadership routines
• Provide strategic HSE guidance during proposals and contract negotiations to align client expectations and establish the conditions needed for effective safety management
• Provide HSE leadership within an EPC/EPCM delivery model, ensuring clear boundaries, responsibilities, and interfaces between Ramboll, clients, construction contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers
• Define HSE organization structures that are scalable with the ability to support multi-project EPC/EPCM delivery on a nationwide basis
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, interfaces, and governance models required for integrated EPC/EPCM/ safety programs
• Establish standardized HSE execution plans across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover
• Establish construction readiness expectations, including contractor mobilisation, competency assurance, risk review, and field execution controls
• Align HSE expectations, execution standards, and performance requirements across contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and third-party stakeholders
• Lead contractor onboarding, alignment sessions, audits, and recurring performance reviews
• Ensure HSE requirements are embedded into contracting strategies, procurement packages, bid documents, mobilisation plans, and contractor management processes
• Support project teams in translating Ramboll and client HSE requirements into practical field execution requirements for contractors and subcontractors
• Provide governance and assurance over EPC/EPCM risk management processes, including hazard identification, construction risk assessments, high-risk work reviews, and site controls
• Support project HSE resources and project leadership in establishing consistent risk management expectations, while ensuring accountability remains clear within the project delivery structure
• Review and challenge the effectiveness of controls for high-risk activities, including lifting, electrical work, confined space entry, work at height, ground disturbance, energisation, commissioning, and simultaneous operations
• Provide oversight, escalation support, and subject matter input for high-potential or higher-severity incidents, ensuring investigations are completed and lessons learned are embedded across relevant projects
• Conduct site visits, leadership engagements, and assurance reviews to verify that project HSE controls are effective, understood, and consistently applied by the relevant project teams and contractors
• Demonstrate visible HSE leadership that builds trust, accountability, and proactive safety behaviours across project teams and contractors
• Coach project and contractor leadership teams to strengthen leading indicators, reinforce expectations, and promote consistent safety leadership
• Promote open communication, psychological safety, learning, and continuous improvement across the EPC/EPCM project portfolio
• Provide oversight of compliance with applicable health, safety, and environmental regulations, client requirements, and Ramboll HSE standards across EPC/EPCM projects
• Support project teams in translating regulatory and contractual HSE requirements into practical controls and assurance activities
• Represent Ramboll in client audits, regulatory inspections, and EPC/EPCM governance meetings, ensuring actions are effectively tracked, communicated, and closed
• Establish consistent HSE performance reporting across EPC/EPCM projects, using leading and lagging indicators to identify trends, drive accountability, and improve performance
• Translate performance data into clear insights, actions, and recommendations for project leadership, clients, contractors, and internal stakeholders

Requirements:

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of progressive on-site HSE leadership experience with substantial large-scale EPC/EPCM project exposure
• Strong background supporting multi-contractor, high-risk industrial construction environments
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority
• Proven experience supporting construction management delivery models where HSE performance is delivered through contractor execution and strong client/contractor interface management
• Working knowledge of construction-phase HSE controls, contractor management, incident investigation, assurance, and regulatory compliance
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Professional certifications (CSP, CMIOSH, NEBOSH, CRSP, or equivalent)
• Experience with energy transition, power, renewables, industrial de-carbonisation, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, or major infrastructure projects
• Experience supporting owner's EPC/EPCM models across multiple concurrent projects
• International or remote project experience