Regional EHS Manager, Europe

Regional EHS Manager – Europe

Employment Status: Full‑Time | Direct Hire

Compensation: Competitive + Bonus

Travel: Up to 50%

Thermo Systems is a global, full‑service control systems integration partner delivering premier class automation solutions across the Energy, Life Sciences, and Mission‑Critical markets. Guided by The Thermo Way, we are unified, dynamic, and committed to delivering excellence.

The Regional EHS Manager is responsible for leading and driving the Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) program across all European projects within Thermo Systems’ mission‑critical portfolio. The role provides regional leadership, governance and technical oversight for all construction, integration, commissioning and energization‑related safety activities, ensuring safe execution across all project phases within mission‑critical and data center environments.

Acting as the central point of coordination for EHS across Europe, the individual will support local project safety teams through the development of standards, procedures, templates, governance frameworks and escalation management, while promoting a strong proactive safety culture across all projects. The role will work closely with project delivery teams, commissioning teams, construction management, clients, subcontractors and regional leadership to ensure activities are executed safely, consistently and in compliance with all applicable regulations and client requirements.

• Drive regional EHS strategy, governance and execution across multiple mission‑critical projects, ensuring safe delivery of construction, integration, commissioning, and energization activities across Europe.

• Lead and manage the regional EHS program across all European projects.
• Establish and maintain EHS standards, procedures, governance frameworks, and best practices aligned with construction, commissioning and mission‑critical environments.
• Exercise stop‑work authority where unsafe conditions are identified and lead escalation and resolution of critical EHS risk across regional program.
• Act as the primary regional escalation point for EHS‑related matters across all active projects.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical guidance to local project safety teams and operational delivery teams.
• Drive consistency in EHS execution, reporting and compliance across all projects and regions.
• Promote a proactive safety culture focused on planning, accountability, risk mitigation and continuous improvement.
• Measure accountability and KPIs for regional EHS performance and compliance.
• Promote behavioral safety leadership, workforce engagement, near‑miss reporting, and safety observations.
• Provide oversight and support for construction, integration, commissioning, energisation and live testing activities across the regional portfolio.
• Govern and review and support RAMS, LOTO procedures, switching procedures, energisation plans, electrical safety and high‑risk activity controls.
• Ensure robust safety controls are implemented for high‑risk activities associated with mission‑critical construction and commissioning environments.
• Support safe management of temporary systems, live environments, phased handovers, and operational interfaces.
• Drive measurable improvements in safety performance through effective tracking and management of leading/lagging EHS indicators.
• Participate in project safety reviews, commissioning readiness reviews, audits and critical activity planning sessions.
• Support project teams in managing subcontractor safety performance and compliance.

• Develop and maintain regional EHS templates, procedures, checklists and reporting standards.
• Conduct regional audits, site inspections and safety reviews to ensure compliance with company standards, local legislation and client requirements.
• Support incident investigations, root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
• Track regional EHS KPIs, trends, observations, lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with applicable European construction safety legislation and country‑specific…