EHS Specialist

EHS Specialist

The EHS specialist provides day-to-day EHS direct support for a set of sites within a region or department, considering all WTG generators within the region, warehouses and service sites, field technicians, managers, contractors, and staff within the define scope. They are the first line contact for the field service engineers as they manage day to day EHS issues in service work, and the tasks are related to training, inspections, customer interaction around planning and job.

• Interpret laws, regulations and procedures, considering all relevant local/national EHS standards in the organization
• This role is part of "Servicio de Prevención Mancomunado" for GE Wind Energy, S.L. / GE Renovables España, S.L. in Spain. It applies to Fixed Facilities, Project & Service operations and Office.
• Prepare EHS documentation for products and processes if needed and review any other documents prepared by other areas to provide EHS assessment.
• Ensure customer EHS requirements are being properly followed to guarantee the access of GE Vernova employees and contractors to the customer site.
• Update, support, develop and implement site procedures and develop updates when needed according to GE Vernova management system processes and procedures and local regulation.
• Regularly review the sites Emergency Plan, ensuring all required materials and equipment is in place, where required it is tested, and the persons required to use it are trained.
• Train people to understand laws, regulations, and procedures, offering guide to risk mitigation when necessary and advocating for ongoing improvements to equipment and people safety through engineering controls, developing risk assessments.
• Support Site Manager at GE Vernova EHS programs implementation
• Ensure Emergency drills are carried out at least quarterly; these may be focused on specific events, rather than a full site evacuation each quarter.
• Verify that products, equipment's and tools delivered to the sites meet internal standards for safety, following up contractors and Major Components Exchange/Blades team mobilizations, ensuring proper approval and documentation availability.
• Direct EHS site support and assessment during major operations in your area or others.
• Regular scheduled Audit activities:
  Simplified Work Plan, Legal and GE documentation compliance for GE Vernova and contractors, Site inspections within own scope and other regions and countries.
• Manage site inspections carried out by regulatory agencies.
• Manage the retention of the EHS required documentation in the Site EHS files.
• Oversee the management of PPE for GE Vernova staff and visitors.
• Perform Simplified Work Plan audits, reporting and registering following the region audit plan
• Support contractor mobilization and MCE / Blades teams on the wind farms of region ensuring that requirements are up to date and supporting services organization when required.
• Ensure that any compliance GE Vernova applications like Gensuite, Comply Works and SGS are fully implemented and in compliance with customer and GE Vernova requirements and local regulations
• Reporting systems:
  Review periodically all information reported, ensuring correct recording, assigned responsibilities, deadlines, and proper event closing
• Represent GE Vernova, if required, in local EHS working groups and wind regional community
• Ensure compliance with Laws, Regulations and Procedures
• Support and Drive the achievement of a Zero Harm Culture
• Recognize trends and patterns, taking and advising actions to avert potential risks before they create an incident
• Ensure that all applicable EHS incidents are reported in a timely fashion, investigated properly, and classified and reported according to GE Vernova requirements and applicable governmental regulations.
• Manage any on site incidents/accidents to ensure the required actions are implemented expediently and assist with conducting accident/incident investigations.
• Join and support the team investigation
• Provide training and guidance in investigation and root cause analysis.
• Assess Injuries related work relatedness and recordability
• Periodic review events recorded at the Gensuite assuring data…