Senior Health & Safety Advisor

What You Can Expect

As our Senior Health and Safety Advisor you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring Health and Safety programs for the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) team, partnering with other Business Entities and Operating Companies’ and Health and Safety (H&S) staff to influence an organizational culture that leads to an injury free working environment. Every day you will support safety excellence through engaging with plant staff and leadership, incident review, safety trend tracking, and providing training and guidance. You will report to the Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) & IPOS Director and assist in development and implementation of a H&S Management System that encompasses standards of excellence, programs, policies, procedures and processes for ENGIE Energy Solutions (ES) North America.

• Manage H&S databases and provides required monthly statistical reports to ENGIE NA Business Unit (BU) corporate and Business Entity (BE) executives.  Tracks the performance and progress of ENGIE Renewables and Services action plans, programs and processes
• Conduct regular onsite safety support, training, guidance, compliance audits, incident investigations, and safety cultural assessments
• Lead all serious incident investigations that result in a medical treated injuries and lost time accident.  Applies Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) tools when conducting investigations to determine causal factors.  Identifies countermeasures to prevent recurrence and eliminate deviations from the standard
• Provide guidance and acts as a role model for Renewables H&S full time professionals, plant managers, front line supervisors and general foremen in the effective implementation of the 4Ps
• Design the ENA H&S Management System in accordance with the ISO 18001 standard. Ensures conformance to the standard results in compliance to the regulation. Researches new or revised OSHA (US) / OH&S Act (Canada) regulatory requirements.  Anticipates changes and updates the 4Ps as required with follow on training for effective implementation
• Validate safety requirements of third-party H&S auditors, consultants and contractors
• Implement a communication strategy that promotes leadership engagement between management, front line supervisors, foremen, technician / craft personnel and contractors to create a culture where H&S is a principle and not a priority
• Implement an observation program that focuses on pre-job/task activities.  Ensures the Job Safety Plan process permeates down to the granularity of the specific task assigned
• Benchmark the current state of power generation, O&M service and construction-oriented safe work procedures against a “Best in Class” standard.  Orchestrates plans to close identified gaps in coordination with ENGIE NA BE H&S staff
• Coordinate reviews on contractor safety plans and procedures to assure their standard is equal or more stringent than ENGIE NA’s safety criteria as stipulated in the procurement Terms & Conditions

What You’ll Bring

• Associates Degree in Safety Management, Engineering, or Business, certifications in OSHA Safety and Certified Safety Professional
• A minimum ten (10) years’ Safety Management; with three (3) of those years’ experience in thermal power generation and energy distribution preferred
• Subject matter expert in OSHA (US) CFR 29 Parts 1910 / 1926
• You have experience with root cause failure analysis (RCFA) tools and their application for recordable events. You are adept at leading serious incident investigations into High Potential (HiPo) incidents, including those resulting in a lost time accident
• Experience with behavioral science and the psychology behind influencing change