Remote option is available for this position.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. No sponsorship is available for this position.
Are you eager to develop your excellence in an inclusive, collaborative, and empowering community? Are you excited about joining a company that strives to make a difference – for its employees, clients, and society? Are you motivated by creating sustainable change that benefits society and nature?
If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Workplace Management team and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.
Your new role
This role provides senior HSE leadership across Ramboll’s EPC/EPCM project portfolio in Ramboll Americas, supporting the safe delivery of complex engineering, procurement, construction management, commissioning, and turnover activities. The role is responsible for establishing consistent HSE governance, aligning contractors and project teams, supporting high-risk work planning, and enabling effective execution across multiple concurrent projects. The successful candidate will bring significant hands-on experience from large-scale EPC/EPCM construction environments and will be able to operate confidently at both strategic and field execution levels.
The ideal candidate will be a credible HSE leader with significant field experience on large-scale construction or EPC/EPCM projects, strong contractor management capability, and the confidence to influence senior project, client, and contractor stakeholders. They will be comfortable working across multiple projects, balancing strategic governance with practical field-based support, and helping project teams create consistent, risk-based HSE execution.
Your key responsibilities will be:
Strategic HSE Leadership
- Lead the development of a portfolio-wide HSE approach that enables consistent standards, scalable processes, and project-specific execution across all EPC/EPCM projects.
- Serve as primary HSE advisor to Project Directors and EPC/EPCM leadership teams.
- Drive adoption of Ramboll’s HSE program and translate its expectations into practical project-level behaviours, controls, and leadership routines.
- Provide strategic HSE guidance during proposals and contract negotiations to align client expectations and establish the conditions needed for effective safety management.
- Provide HSE leadership within an EPC/EPCM delivery model, ensuring clear boundaries, responsibilities, and interfaces between Ramboll, clients, construction contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers.
Safety Program Organization & Implementation
- Define HSE organization structures that are scalable with the ability to support multi-project EPC/EPCM delivery on a nationwide basis.
- Clarify roles, responsibilities, interfaces, and governance models required for integrated EPC/EPCM/ safety programs.
- Establish standardized HSE execution plans across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
- Establish construction readiness expectations, including contractor mobilisation, competency assurance, risk review, and field execution controls.
Contractor & Multi-Party Coordination
- Align HSE expectations, execution standards, and performance requirements across contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and third-party stakeholders.
- Lead contractor onboarding, alignment sessions, audits, and recurring performance reviews.
- Ensure HSE requirements are embedded into contracting strategies, procurement packages, bid documents, mobilisation plans, and contractor management processes.
- Support project teams in translating Ramboll and client HSE requirements into practical field execution requirements for contractors and subcontractors.
Risk Management, Governance and Assurance
- Provide governance and assurance over EPC/EPCM risk management processes, including hazard identification, construction risk assessments, high-risk work reviews, and site controls.
- Support project HSE resources and project leadership in establishing consistent risk management expectations, while ensuring accountability remains clear within the project delivery structure.
- Review and challenge the effectiveness of controls for high-risk activities, including lifting, electrical work, confined space entry, work at height, ground disturbance, energisation, commissioning, and simultaneous operations.
- Provide oversight, escalation support, and subject matter input for high-potential or higher-severity incidents, ensuring investigations are completed and lessons learned are embedded across relevant projects.
- Conduct site visits, leadership engagements, and assurance reviews to verify that project HSE controls are effective, understood, and consistently applied by the relevant project teams and contractors.
Safety Culture & Engagement
- Demonstrate visible HSE leadership that builds trust, accountability, and proactive safety behaviours across project teams and contractors.
- Coach project and contractor leadership teams to strengthen leading indicators, reinforce expectations, and promote consistent safety leadership.
- Promote open communication, psychological safety, learning, and continuous improvement across the EPC/EPCM project portfolio.
Regulatory & Compliance Oversight
- Provide oversight of compliance with applicable health, safety, and environmental regulations, client requirements, and Ramboll HSE standards across EPC/EPCM projects.
- Support project teams in translating regulatory and contractual HSE requirements into practical controls and assurance activities.
- Represent Ramboll in client audits, regulatory inspections, and EPC/EPCM governance meetings, ensuring actions are effectively tracked, communicated, and closed.
Performance Management & Reporting
- Establish consistent HSE performance reporting across EPC/EPCM projects, using leading and lagging indicators to identify trends, drive accountability, and improve performance.
- Translate performance data into clear insights, actions, and recommendations for project leadership, clients, contractors, and internal stakeholders.
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of progressive on-site HSE leadership experience with substantial large-scale EPC/EPCM project exposure.
- Strong background supporting multi-contractor, high-risk industrial construction environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
- Proven experience supporting construction management delivery models where HSE performance is delivered through contractor execution and strong client/contractor interface management.
- Working knowledge of construction-phase HSE controls, contractor management, incident investigation, assurance, and regulatory compliance.
- Ability to travel regularly to project locations and engage effectively with field teams, project leadership, clients, and contractors.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred:
- Professional certifications (CSP, CMIOSH, NEBOSH, CRSP, or equivalent).
- Experience with energy transition, power, renewables, industrial de-carbonisation, chemicals, manufacturing, mining, or major infrastructure projects.
- Experience supporting owner’s EPC/EPCM models across multiple concurrent projects.
- International or remote project experience.
What we can offer you
- Investment in your development
- Being valued for the unique person you are
- Never being short of inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
- The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company
Salary Transparency Statement
At Ramboll, we are committed to fair and transparent compensation practices that support our people and our purpose of creating sustainable societies. The anticipated base salary range for this position is $136,497 - $197,515 per year. This range reflects the compensation we reasonably expect to offer at the time of posting. Actual compensation will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and internal equity. Because we operate across multiple U.S. markets, pay may differ depending on the cost of labor in specific locations. In addition to base salary, this position may be eligible for bonus, overtime or other forms of compensation and we offer a comprehensive benefits package that supports well-being, professional development, and work-life balance. Our recruiters are happy to share more about the specific salary range and total rewards package applicable to your location during the hiring process.
Ready to join us?
Please submit your application with your up-to-date CV. We invite diversity in all its forms and encourage applicants from all groups to apply.
Thank you for taking the time to apply! We look forward to receiving your application.
Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the Americas
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll in the Americas has thousands of experts working across more than 70 offices. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Environment & Health, Water, Energy, and Planning & Urban Design.
Where People Flourish
Our mission is to create sustainable societies where people and nature flourish. This means that a culture of inclusion is embedded in everything we do. Our people bring diverse backgrounds and experiences to the company, enabling us to deliver innovative and forward-thinking solutions to our clients. We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work. At Ramboll, we offer flexibility as part of our positive and inclusive approach to work. We are committed to equal employment opportunity, regardless of age, disability or medical condition, gender identity, marriage and domestic partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, ancestry, or national origin, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation, military service and veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Ramboll wants to ensure opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. So, please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it more comfortable for you. You can contact us at [email protected] with such requests.
Remote option is available for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. No sponsorship is available for this positi...