Health, Safety and Environment Specialist

ABB; Mebane (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k plan

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

ABB's Health, Safety and Environment team in Mebane, NC seeks an HSE Specialist to advance risk management and incident investigations in a hands-on on-site role.

You will partner with line management to deploy policies, monitor KPIs, and drive training and engagement to improve safety and environmental performance.

Qualifications

• High school Diploma with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Ability to deploy policies across functions in the HSE domain.
• Knowledge of state-specific safety programs such as North Carolina Safe Star preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead HSE risk assessment activities with line management, ensuring identified hazards are mitigated through effective preventive and corrective actions, promoting a proactive safety culture.
• Ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements and ABB HSE standards by implementing policies, supporting audits, and advising leaders on HSE responsibilities, obligations, and best practices.
• Drive incident management processes by facilitating investigations, conducting root cause analyses, and developing corrective action plans to reduce risk and prevent recurrence.
• Monitor and report HSE performance metrics, incidents, KPIs, and training effectiveness, providing actionable insights, lessons learned, and recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Champion HSE engagement, training, and improvement initiatives by partnering with employees, managers, customers, suppliers, and external stakeholders to strengthen safety performance, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence.

Skills

HSE risk assessment

Incident management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Training and coaching

Education

High school Diploma

Job description

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to:

HSE Manager

The Health, Safety and Environment Specialist contributes to improving Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) performance in the assigned area of responsibility to cultivate a high-performance culture with a strong focus on HSE. Supports the business by applying in-depth HSE knowledge and offering solutions and advice. Ensures effective risk management through HSE excellence along the ABB value chain.

The work model for the role is: Onsite, Mebane, NC

Your role and responsibilities:

• Lead HSE risk assessment activities with line management, ensuring identified hazards are mitigated through effective preventive and corrective actions while promoting a proactive safety culture.
• Ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements and ABB HSE standards by implementing policies, supporting audits, and advising leaders on HSE responsibilities, obligations, and best practices.
• Drive incident management processes by facilitating investigations, conducting root cause analyses, and developing corrective action plans to reduce risk and prevent recurrence.
• Monitor and report HSE performance metrics, incidents, KPIs, and training effectiveness, providing actionable insights, lessons learned, and recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Champion HSE engagement, training, and improvement initiatives by partnering with employees, managers, customers, suppliers, and external stakeholders to strengthen safety performance, environmental stewardship, and operational excellence.

Qualifications for the role:

• High school Diploma with 2+ years of relevant experience
• Expertise to work with diversified functions to deploy policies in the HSE domain preferred
• Knowledge of state-specific safety programs such as North Carolina Safe Star preferred

More About Us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

What's In It For You

We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You’ll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that’s tailored to your goals. Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.

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ABB Benefit Summary For Eligible US Employees

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
• Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

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