The Lead EHS Specialist will be responsible for promoting and strengthening the Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) culture across Brazil, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, corporate standards, and GE Vernova Life Saving Rules. The role supports all project phases, including operations, contractor management, audits, training, incident investigations, and EHS management system deployment, contributing to accident prevention, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Essential Responsibilities:
Support operational teams throughout all project phases, ensuring compliance with EHS requirements, risk assessments, and corporate and legal safety procedures;
Implement, monitor, and continuously improve the GE Vernova EHS Management System, ensuring adherence to corporate standards and ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certifications;
Conduct audits, field inspections, Genba Walks, incident investigations, and follow-up on preventive and corrective action plans;
Manage contractor safety requirements, pre-mobilization processes, risk assessments, mandatory training, and documentation compliance;
Deliver EHS training programs, monitor key performance indicators, and provide regular reports to leadership while promoting best practices and a strong safety culture.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Safety Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, or a related technical field;
Solid experience in Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS), preferably within the energy sector, including generation, transmission, distribution, or O&M activities;
Strong knowledge of occupational safety regulations, incident investigation methodologies, risk assessments, EHS management systems, and ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards;
Experience in Electrical Safety, Energy Isolation requirements, contractor management, and implementation of field risk control measures;
Fluent English and availability to travel across Latin America; Spanish proficiency will be considered a plus.
Diversity:
GE Vernova supports diversity and encourages applications from women, Black professionals, people with disabilities (PwD), and individuals of all backgrounds and identities.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
GE Vernova is a purpose-built energy technology company on a mission to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world.
It is made up of three businesses -- Power, Wind, and Electrification -- with focus on accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.
The world needs more energy, smarter energy. With energy demand expected to grow by more than 50% in the next 20 years, we are continuously innovating to meet the moment…like we have for the past 130 years. The Energy of Change and relentless optimism are what drive us – it’s about never giving up and seeing what’s possible so that we deliver the energy technologies the world needs right now and for generations to come.
GE Vernova’s attitude and edge is embedded in its name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver.
Together, we have the energy to change the world.
