General Environmental and Employee Health & Safety Specialist Professional

HSE Specialist - ProjectsPosition Location: Raleigh, NC

Position Responsibilities / Requirements

Hitachi Energy seeks a Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Professional who will be responsible for supporting all phases of project site execution. The ideal candidate will have a degree in safety or related field, professional safety certification, mastery of construction site HSE management, and electrical safety experience including in high voltage distribution environments.

- Coordinate with the project management teams to review proposed project scopes and tenders, HSE plans, and sub-contractor qualifications.

- Act as the HSE focal point to site, project, and management including during both routine progress meetings and emergent issue resolution.

- Assist in the identification, analysis and development of controls to eliminate or minimize occupational hazards at project and service locations.

- Provide advice, support and training where necessary to management and workforce to achieve HSE objectives and maintain regulatory compliance.

- Facilitate and direct HSE best practices to ensure continuous improvement and to instill a world-class culture.

- Conduct project site visits and audits to evaluate the effectiveness of HSE processes and assist in taking the necessary steps to close gaps in execution.

- Participate and support analysis of incident trends and provide recommendations for preventative and improvement actions.

- Lead accident investigations to ensure that root-cause analysis is appropriately conducted and corrective actions address the causes

- Maintain required HSE records and develop and present routine HSE progress reports.

- Maintain awareness of developments and legislation that impact assigned functions.

- Represent the HSE function to current and prospective customers.

- Coordinate ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 (OHSAS 18001) audit program through planning and scheduling for internal and external audits, compiling metrics and maintaining records of audit reports.

Qualifications Required

- Education and Experience:

- Bachelor’s degree and/or eight years professional HSE experience

- Ability to travel an average of 25% of the time

Qualifications Preferred

- Professional certification (e.g. CSP, CIH).

- Construction HSE experience including execution of site preparation, demolition, installation and commissioning scopes.

- Electrical safety experience including high voltage power distribution environments.

- Knowledge and experience in electrical substation construction

- High comfort level with digitized management tools.

Experience/Special Skills Required

- Proven leadership, interpersonal, and influencing skills.

- Excellent technical English writing and verbal skills.

- Ability to operate within and support matrixed leadership and functional teams.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.