HSE Manager - Major Projects

Ramboll is hiring an HSE Manager to provide senior health, safety, and environmental leadership across major projects in the Americas. The role aligns HSE planning, governance, resources, and execution, engages stakeholders early in project development, and supports assurance, compliance, reporting, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Lead alignment of HSE expectations, planning requirements and governance arrangements for major projects across the Americas, including EPC and EPCM delivery models
• Act as the senior HSE point of coordination between the GBA, Project Delivery, procurement, sales and tender management, engineering, commissioning and other internal stakeholders
• Ensure HSE is engaged early in business development, tendering, project planning and delivery preparation so that risks, scope, budget and resource requirements are identified before commitments are made
• Translate Ramboll and client HSE expectations into practical planning requirements that can be understood and applied by project, commercial and technical teams
• Provide strategic HSE input during proposals, contract reviews and internal delivery planning to establish clear roles, responsibilities, interfaces and escalation routes before project execution begins
• Build understanding across the Americas business of when and why HSE must be involved in major projects, particularly during tendering, contracting, mobilisation and execution planning
• Work with internal stakeholders to define scalable HSE organisation structures, resource requirements and competency needs for major projects before execution risks materialise
• Support project teams in identifying when dedicated Project HSE Manager support, specialist HSE input or additional project HSE resources are required
• Ensure HSE requirements are embedded into project delivery plans, procurement strategies, contracting approaches, mobilisation plans and commissioning readiness activities
• Where required due to resource demand, temporarily step into the Project HSE Manager role for major projects while maintaining focus on broader portfolio alignment and improvement
• Work closely with Project Delivery, procurement, sales and tender management, engineering, commissioning and relevant business leaders to integrate HSE into the major project delivery model
• Support internal teams in understanding how contract model, scope definition, client expectations and contractor interfaces affect HSE responsibility, capability and resourcing
• Influence early commercial and technical decisions so that HSE obligations are realistic, adequately resourced and capable of being delivered in practice
• Provide challenge and support to ensure HSE requirements are reflected in bid documents, contracts, procurement packages, contractor scopes of work and project execution documentation
• Promote clear interfaces between Ramboll, clients, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, particularly where EPC or EPCM delivery introduces complex responsibility boundaries
• Act as an escalation point for internal project HSE issues and project delivery challenges that cannot be resolved by the assigned Project HSE Manager or project team
• Provide senior HSE support and challenge to Project HSE Managers, Project Directors and project leadership teams where risks, interfaces or stakeholder expectations require additional alignment
• Review the effectiveness of HSE planning, governance, contractor management and assurance arrangements across major projects and identify opportunities to improve the delivery model
• Lead or support assurance reviews, lessons-learned activities and management reviews to verify that HSE requirements are understood, resourced and consistently applied
• Drive continuous improvement in how HSE supports major project delivery across the Americas, using project experience, performance trends and stakeholder feedback to strengthen future planning and execution
• Strengthen business understanding of HSE’s role in major project success, particularly the need for early engagement, clear accountability and appropriate resourcing
• Coach internal stakeholders and project leadership teams on effective HSE planning, escalation, contractor interface management and risk-based decision-making
• Promote a learning-focused culture that uses project feedback, assurance findings and lessons learned to improve future major project delivery
• Provide oversight of compliance with applicable health, safety, and environmental regulations, client requirements, and Ramboll HSE standards across 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 EPCM governance meetings, ensuring actions are effectively tracked, communicated, and closed
• Establish consistent HSE performance reporting across 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Safety Management, Engineering, Environmental Health, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline
• Professional HSE certification appropriate to the Americas market, with Certified Safety Professional (CSP) preferred or the ability to obtain CSP within an agreed timeframe
• 10+ years of progressive HSE experience, including significant exposure to major projects, EPC, EPCM or complex construction management delivery models
• Strong understanding of how HSE requirements are defined during tendering, contracting, procurement, mobilisation, project execution and commissioning
• Proven ability to influence internal stakeholders, including project delivery, procurement, sales, tender management, engineering, commissioning and senior project leadership
• Experience identifying project HSE resource needs, defining HSE scopes of work and supporting scalable organisation models for complex projects
• Ability to provide senior escalation support where project HSE issues, stakeholder alignment or delivery model challenges require additional intervention
• Working knowledge of construction-phase HSE controls, contractor management, incident investigation, assurance, regulatory compliance and management-system implementation
• Strong communication, facilitation, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• CSP
• Degree-level education supported by significant major-project HSE experience may be considered where professional certification is in progress or an equivalent international route applies
• Experience with energy transition, power, renewables, industrial de-carbonisation, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, or major infrastructure projects
• Experience supporting owner's EPCM models across multiple concurrent projects
• International or remote project experience