HSE Manager - Major Projects

Ramboll • City of Syracuse, NY

9d • $136,000 - $197,000 • Remote

About The Position

The HSE Manager provides senior health, safety, and environmental leadership for Ramboll Energy and other major project portfolios across the Americas, with a focus on aligning HSE planning, governance, resourcing, and execution across major projects, including EPC and EPCM delivery models. The role works primarily upstream rather than serving as the day-to-day HSE Manager on every project: it ensures HSE is involved early in business development, tendering, project planning, and delivery preparation, and partners with internal teams so risks, responsibilities, resource needs, and delivery expectations are understood before projects enter execution.

The position coordinates with Project Delivery, procurement, sales and tender management, engineering, commissioning, and other stakeholders. It helps establish practical HSE plans and governance, appropriate project structures and resources, clear interfaces and accountabilities, and effective assurance and performance reporting. The role provides escalation support to project teams and Project HSE Managers, and may temporarily serve as a Project HSE Manager where project demand or resource constraints require it. It also supports regulatory and client compliance, audits and inspections, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across the major-project portfolio.

The role is based in a flexible location, with remote work an option when not travelling. Travel is approximately 40%.

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; Certified Safety Professional (CSP) is preferred, or the ability to obtain CSP within an agreed timeframe.
• At least 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 project delivery, procurement, sales, tender management, engineering, commissioning, and senior project leadership stakeholders.
• Experience identifying project HSE resource needs, defining HSE scopes of work, and supporting scalable organization models for complex projects.
• Ability to provide senior escalation support for project HSE issues, stakeholder alignment, or delivery-model challenges.
• Working knowledge of construction-phase HSE controls, contractor management, incident investigation, assurance, regulatory compliance, and management-system implementation.
• Ability to travel to project and stakeholder locations as required while maintaining focus on portfolio-level alignment and improvement.
• Strong communication, facilitation, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice To Haves

• 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 decarbonisation, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, or major infrastructure projects.
• Experience supporting owner’s EPCM models across multiple concurrent projects.
• International or remote project experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead alignment of HSE expectations, planning requirements, and governance arrangements for major projects across the Americas, including EPC and EPCM delivery models.
• Coordinate HSE between the GBA, Project Delivery, procurement, sales and tender management, engineering, commissioning, and other internal stakeholders.
• Ensure HSE engagement early in business development, tendering, project planning, and delivery preparation, identifying risks, scope, budget, and resource requirements before commitments are made.
• Translate Ramboll and client HSE expectations into practical planning requirements for project, commercial, and technical teams.
• Provide strategic HSE input during proposals, contract reviews, and internal delivery planning to establish roles, responsibilities, interfaces, and escalation routes.
• Build understanding across the Americas business of when and why HSE should be involved in major projects.
• Define scalable HSE organization structures, resource requirements, and competency needs with internal stakeholders.
• Support project teams in determining when dedicated Project HSE Manager support, specialist HSE input, or additional HSE resources are needed.
• Embed HSE requirements into project delivery plans, procurement strategies, contracting approaches, mobilisation plans, and commissioning readiness activities.
• Temporarily assume the Project HSE Manager role for major projects when resource demand requires it, while maintaining portfolio-level responsibilities.
• Help internal teams understand how contract models, scope, client expectations, and contractor interfaces affect HSE responsibilities, capability, and resourcing.
• Influence commercial and technical decisions so HSE obligations are realistic, adequately resourced, and deliverable.
• 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 on EPC and EPCM projects.
• Serve as an escalation point for project HSE issues and 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.
• Review HSE planning, governance, contractor management, and assurance arrangements across major projects and identify improvements.
• Lead or support assurance reviews, lessons-learned activities, and management reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement in HSE support for major project delivery using project experience, performance trends, and stakeholder feedback.
• Coach stakeholders and project leadership teams on HSE planning, escalation, contractor interface management, and risk-based decision-making.
• Promote a learning-focused culture that uses feedback, assurance findings, and lessons learned to improve project delivery.
• Oversee compliance with applicable health, safety, and environmental regulations, client requirements, and Ramboll HSE standards across EPCM projects.
• Help project teams translate regulatory and contractual HSE requirements into practical controls and assurance activities.
• Represent Ramboll in client audits, regulatory inspections, and EPCM governance meetings, tracking, communicating, and closing actions.
• Establish consistent HSE performance reporting across EPCM projects using leading and lagging indicators.
• Translate performance data into insights, actions, and recommendations for project leadership, clients, contractors, and internal stakeholders.

Benefits

• Professional development and career growth opportunities in a Global HSEQ organisation.
• Comprehensive benefits package supporting well-being, professional development, and work-life balance.
• May be eligible for a bonus, overtime, or other forms of compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior