Site EHS Specialist Remote, Japan

About GE Vernova:
GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.

GE Vernovahelpscustomers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of theGas Power One Field Services team, Field Core installs, maintains, and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy.

Job Summary:

The Site EHS Specialist III is a key member of our EHS Team and a critical partner for our operational site teams at planning, project execution and post outage review stage. The Site EHS Specialist III is responsible for supporting with the creation and execution of a comprehensive EHS plan on our operational site, that drives the best-in-class standards of EHS and sustainability.

The objective of this role is to observe, advise, coach and support those with operational responsibilities to prevent injuries, help drive accountability and remain in compliance with company/client EHS policies, programs, and procedures alongside country legislative standards.

The Site EHS team are central to the adoption, communication, and implementation of injury preventative EHS initiatives and campaigns to reiterate our NO HARM culture.

The Site EHS Specialists III are our senior EHS functional leaders on the field. They will partner with internal and external stakeholders and will be in the front line of our improvement initiatives and development of our EHS team as well as be key influencers on the development of a robust EHS culture across all field teams.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Partner with the operational team in all matters related to EHS Planning, On Site Execution and Outage Close-out for high-complexity outage scopes / customer sites as assigned by your Resource Manager depending on work demand, competency, and availability
• Outage Planning – Remove and mitigate Risk Pre-Deployment
  • Be a key contributor to outage planning process including Outage Readiness Reviews (ORR) in partnership with our operational team and customer/clients to clearly communicate EHS needs and best practices
  • Manage required compliance activities, including the implementation of in-country legislation and OFS EHS Programs. Drive EHS planning process thoroughly and ensure risks are identified and controlled proactively and effectively using appropriate risk mitigation tools such as Outage Risk Profiles
  • Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to the Outage Team and Customer on handling of any potential hazards such as Asbestos, Lead, Arsenic, and Hexavalent Chrome, which may impact the work scope
  • Communicate lessons learned and mitigation strategies and ensure correct processes are in place to avoid repeat incidents
  • Initiate and lead site walkdowns to ensure strong planning that includes access/egress/laydown areas
  • Serve as direct liaison with end customer at site in safety task planning with project scope of work.
  • Ensure medical preparedness and that facilities are readily available for all employees. Ensure that records are properly maintained
• Mobilization Phase
  • Develop and maintain the One Field Services (OFS) EHS Plan, providing support, coaching and direction in all elements of the plan to the site team
  • Confirm submission of all required site documents prior to outage team arrival
  • Ensure the Walkways / Welfare arrangements on site are to GE Field Core…