Environment, Health and Safety Manager Site Manager

GE Vernova, Inc.; Rugby; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Private health insurance

Pension with 10% employer contribution

Life assurance

Job summary

GE Vernova, Inc. is seeking an EHS Site Manager to lead safety, environmental compliance, and risk reduction across a fast-paced UK site. You will embed proactive EHS practices, align priorities with production demands, and elevate safety ownership on the shop floor.

The role requires visibility with all levels of the organization, collaboration with operations, and a focus on continuous improvement to improve quality, reduce downtime, and sustain manufacturing performance.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent professional health and safety qualification.
• Significant hands-on EHS experience within a manufacturing, industrial, or operational environment.
• Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and environmental requirements.
• Proven experience implementing, maintaining, and auditing ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence credibly at all levels, from shop-floor teams to senior leadership.
• Strong practical experience in risk assessment, incident investigation, corrective actions, audit readiness, and compliance reporting.
• A practical, organised, and analytical approach, with the ability to use EHS data and reporting systems to drive improvement.
• A collaborative, improvement-focused mindset suited to a fast-paced production environment.

Responsibilities

• Be a visible presence across the site, working closely with production teams to spot risk early, challenge unsafe conditions, and build stronger day-to-day safety ownership.
• Shift the focus from incident response to hazard elimination, using proactive interventions and stronger controls to prevent issues before they reach the shop floor.
• Partner with operations leaders to show how safe, disciplined processes improve quality, reduce downtime, and support consistent manufacturing output.
• Translate Group EHS strategy into practical site standards, routines, and action plans that work in a live manufacturing environment.
• Lead site compliance with UK legislation and management system requirements, maintaining strong standards across ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 in a regulated setting.
• Analyse safety trends, reporting, and leading indicators to identify risk, challenge weak points, and drive meaningful continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of EHS risk across industrial operations, including electrical safety, lifting operations, and work at height.
• Lead robust incident investigations and root cause analysis, ensuring corrective and preventive actions are practical, effective, and sustained.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external bodies, including the HSE and Environment Agency, to maintain engagement, compliance, and trust.
• Work with manufacturing teams to embed Lean thinking into EHS activity, helping to reduce waste, improve discipline, and strengthen operational efficiency.
• Support the development of clear, practical procedures and standards that enable teams to work safely while maintaining operational pace.

Skills

EHS leadership

UK health & safety law

ISO 14001 / ISO 45001

Incident investigation

Risk assessment

Data-driven improvement

Stakeholder engagement

Continuous improvement

Lean manufacturing

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

Job description

Job Description Summary

We are looking for an EHS Site Manager to take on a visible leadership role within a fast-paced manufacturing environment where safety, operational discipline, and continuous improvement are critical to performance.

This is a hands-on opportunity to lead safety, environmental compliance, and risk reduction across the site while helping to strengthen a more proactive, prevention-focused culture. Rather than simply maintaining systems or reacting to incidents, you will focus on identifying hazards earlier, improving operational discipline, and embedding safer ways of working before issues reach the shop floor.

Working closely with production teams and site leadership, you will play a key role in aligning EHS priorities with operational demands, demonstrating how strong EHS practice supports better quality, lower downtime, improved compliance, and more reliable manufacturing performance.

This role will suit someone who is comfortable being highly visible on the shop floor, confident influencing at all levels of the organisation, and motivated by the opportunity to make a measurable difference in a live industrial setting.

Job Description

• Be a visible presence across the site, working closely with production teams to spot risk early, challenge unsafe conditions, and build stronger day-to-day safety ownership.
• Shift the focus from incident response to hazard elimination, using proactive interventions and stronger controls to prevent issues before they reach the shop floor.
• Partner with operations leaders to show how safe, disciplined processes improve quality, reduce downtime, and support consistent manufacturing output.
• Translate Group EHS strategy into practical site standards, routines, and action plans that work in a live manufacturing environment.
• Lead site compliance with UK legislation and management system requirements, maintaining strong standards across ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 in a regulated setting.
• Analyse safety trends, reporting, and leading indicators to identify risk, challenge weak points, and drive meaningful continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of EHS risk across industrial operations, including electrical safety, lifting operations, and work at height.
• Lead robust incident investigations and root cause analysis, ensuring corrective and preventive actions are practical, effective, and sustained.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external bodies, including the HSE and Environment Agency, to maintain engagement, compliance, and trust.
• Work with manufacturing teams to embed Lean thinking into EHS activity, helping to reduce waste, improve discipline, and strengthen operational efficiency.
• Support the development of clear, practical procedures and standards that enable teams to work safely while maintaining operational pace.

Candidate Requirements

• NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent professional health and safety qualification.
• Significant hands-on EHS experience within a manufacturing, industrial, or operational environment.
• Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and environmental requirements.
• Proven experience implementing, maintaining, and auditing ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence credibly at all levels, from shop-floor teams to senior leadership.
• Strong practical experience in risk assessment, incident investigation, corrective actions, audit readiness, and compliance reporting.
• A practical, organised, and analytical approach, with the ability to use EHS data and reporting systems to drive improvement.
• A collaborative, improvement-focused mindset suited to a fast-paced production environment.

Desirable

• Experience in a heavy manufacturing or higher-risk industrial environment.
• IOSH membership or working towards CMIOSH.
• Exposure to ISO 9001.
• Experience of integrating Lean or continuous improvement methods into EHS activity.

What We Offer

At GE Vernova, we invest in your long-term success and wellbeing through a comprehensive, flexible benefits package designed to support what matters most to you.

Our Total Reward offering includes competitive compensation, a performance-related bonus, flexible pension with a 10 % employers’ contribution, employer-funded private health insurance, income protection, and life assurance. We support your time to recharge with 26 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.

Our 'Flex Choice' programme, you can take advantage of corporate benefits such as buying and selling holiday, a cycle-to-work scheme, financial planning, critical illness insurance, personal accident cover, dental cover, option to add family to a private health scheme, and travel insurance.

Why Join Us?

Join our team to lead real problem-solving in a challenging manufacturing environment, reduce repeat defects, influence process design, build digital quality capability, and create measurable business improvement.

We also provide a platform for continuous career growth through mentorship, open dialogue, and support for professional qualifications, helping you map a career path that evolves with your ambitions.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No