Sr Director, HSSE Project Execution

About the position

The Sr Director, HSSE Project Execution serves as the primary interface for RWE Americas (RWEA) HSSE Project Execution (Construction), integrating technical best practices, regulatory expectations, emerging industry trends, team development, and relationship management with contractors. The role provides strategic direction, technical leadership, and governance for HSSE across projects throughout North America to ensure safe working conditions, achieve departmental and organizational KPI targets, implement the HSSE management system, maintain full regulatory compliance, protect the environment, and drive a proactive, zero-harm safety culture throughout the project execution lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Supports a team of contract HSSE professionals focused on safe project execution
  • Ensures safe and healthy working conditions and procedures for all colleagues and contractors
  • Achieves departmental KPIs and targets
  • Implements HSSE management system, processes, and programs within Project Execution and on construction projects
  • Ensures HSSE compliance with legislation, regulations, and environmental aspects at PE projects
  • Leads and supports a team of contract HSSE professionals to achieve departmental and Company KPIs and targets
  • Leads national campaigns around behavior-based safety, workforce empowerment, and leadership accountability
  • Oversees strategy implementation, KPIs, metrics, and targets for HSSE Project Execution, aligned with operations
  • Fosters the company's HSSE culture through interactions, communications, and leading by example
  • Shares progress through daily, weekly, and monthly reporting to team members and HSSE leadership to ensure collaboration across departments and drive safe work
  • Implements HSSE management system, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with company directives
  • Regularly reviews Operations HSSE metrics and focuses the team on high-risk activities, trends, and mitigations
  • Advises and guides operational leadership on the implementation of the HSSE management system, risk identification, and mitigation
  • Responsible for targeted campaigns, programs, and initiatives for continuous improvement
  • Ensures governance and compliance with the HSSE management system and policies
  • Provides feedback to HSSE Excellence regarding procedure improvement opportunities/needs
  • Coordinates RCAs, works with HSSE team members to conduct root cause analyses and identify learnings
  • Ensures HSSE training compliance across the business
  • Owns the communication strategy for field HSSE engagements, storytelling, and lessons-learned dissemination
  • Develops and manages HSSE operations/PE team OKRs, team performance, and rankings

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's of Science in Safety Management, Environmental, Engineering, Construction, or a relevant area of study is required
  • A minimum of 11 years of construction safety management experience
  • Team Leadership: Ability to lead, inspire, manage, and delegate effectively across regions
  • People Development: Ability to develop themselves and their people to their full potential
  • Performance Orientation: Self-motivated to drive the business, increase performance, and deliver results
  • Strategic thinking: Push boundaries to achieve goals, utilizing resources in a matrix organization
  • Continuous Improvement: Constantly optimizing the business
  • Integration Management: Ability to lead teams through change management
  • Working Together: Ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams
  • Communication skills: Ability to effectively communicate internally & externally within the chain of command and within his/her level of authority
  • Open mindset: Self-reflective personality, able to learn and act on feedback
  • Hands-on mentality: Actively involving him-/herself, pragmatic and fact-focused attitude
  • Deep expertise in HSSE and asset-intensive business (Construction)
  • Understanding of the regulatory framework in different jurisdictions/markets
  • Understanding of regulatory decision-making procedures
  • Understanding of business model, regulatory, and technical developments, as well as potential implications
  • Onshore Wind, PV, BESS Construction & Operations understanding
  • Flexibility and willingness to travel extensively domestically as needed to effectively perform the job
  • Languages: English mandatory, additional languages an advantage
  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
  • RWE Americas is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Nice-to-haves

  • Renewables industry experience a plus

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
  • Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.
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