US Head of Corporate Health & Safety

Turner & Townsend•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries, working across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources. They transform together with clients, delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives through programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. The company is majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., and together they provide premier programme, project and cost management offerings globally. The US Head of Corporate Health & Safety will provide Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) leadership within the region, collaborating with the regional board, Global Health & Safety Lead, regional HR teams, and country lead H&S coordinators. This role is crucial for driving a culture of HSE technical excellence and performance to protect people, assets, and the brand, focusing on HSE for people, offices, and the commercial delivery of programs and projects, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation. Knowledge of International ISO standards is required.

Requirements

University degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Engineering or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Certification from an Occupational Safety & Health accreditation body.
Auditor training/qualifications ideally to ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and/or ISO 45001.
Outstanding interpersonal skills, communication skills (oral & written) and highly customer-centric.
Fluent in English.
Apply, defend & integrate company values.
Comfortable working with a variety of industry sectors and robust HSE Management Systems.
PowerPoint, MS Word & Excel – intermediate to advanced level.
Minimum 7+ years construction experience, architecture/engineering environment, or HSE experience in a similar field.
Experience working for contractors as an HSE lead, consultant or professional services.
Demonstrated experience developing principles & frameworks.
Experience with HSE elements delivering projects in principal/PMC.

Nice To Haves

other languages an advantage

Responsibilities

Drive a culture of safety and visible leadership commitment into everything we do by continuously assessing organizational maturity, establishing baselines and creating action plans in partnership with the business.
Act as the key in-region H&S lead, developing implementation strategies to support global and central initiatives and business operations requirements. This will include developing management information and board reports for H&S.
Implement and integrate the H&S Management System framework, standards and tools into business strategy to ensure legal compliance and operational assurance (including ISO standards).
Continually assess HSE risk through execution of the global central assurance strategy including operational risk strategy, audit & execution of regional programs of work and timely site attendance with offices and client sites and execution of commissions/project delivery.
Provide ad-hoc timely counsel and information to management on account, market, area and/or region basis on HSE matters including trends, performance or concerns.
Manage the HSE notification, escalation and reporting process for the region to ensure lessons learned & improvement plans are identified; monitor root causes and help to drive a mindset of learning & improvement from incidents.
Work to ensure the wider team and account structures have access to technical guidance that helps teams interpret national and state laws, statutory regs and best practices through hierarchy of controls, risk assessment, procedures and smart actions (our R4 model).
Serve as lead investigator for preliminary fatal/non-fatal incidents or PSIF (potential serious incident) events; Produce preliminary (final) reports through standardized templates.
Conduct lead investigations and sign-off high level reports of serious incidents.
In partnership with HR, conduct ergonomics assessments, workforce wellness clinics, liaison with internal workplace support including implementing Return-to-Work (RTW) plans.
In partnership with HR, support wellbeing initiatives, including mental health guidance.
Support H&S consultants/professional services, when needed.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.