Senior HSEQQ Manager - EPC/EPCM Projects

Ramboll3; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ramboll Americas seeks a senior HSEQ leader to oversee governance for EPC/EPCM projects, ensuring safe delivery across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and turnover.

The role requires strategic and field-side leadership, strong contractor management, and the ability to influence project and client stakeholders across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience from large-scale EPC/EPCM construction environments.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and field execution levels.
• Credible HSEQ leadership with field experience on large-scale projects.
• Proven ability to influence senior project, client and contractor stakeholders.
• Experience balancing governance with practical field support across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Strategic HSEQ Leadership: Lead a portfolio-wide HSEQ approach, advise Project Directors, drive adoption of Ramboll's HSEQ program, provide guidance during proposals and contracts, and lead HSEQ within the EPC/EPCM delivery model.
• Safety Program Organization & Implementation: Define scalable HSEQ structures, clarify roles/interfaces/governance, establish standardized execution plans, and define readiness and mobilisation expectations.
• Contractor & Multi-Party Coordination: Align HSEQ expectations across contractors and suppliers, lead onboarding/audits/reviews, embed HSEQ in contracting and procurement, translate requirements to field.
• Risk Management, Governance and Assurance: Oversee risk management processes, support project leadership, review controls for high-risk activities, oversee investigations and lessons learned, conduct site visits.
• Safety Culture & Engagement: Demonstrate visible HSEQ leadership to build trust and proactive safety behaviours.

Job description

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 HSEQ 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 HSEQ 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 HSEQ 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 HSEQ execution.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Strategic HSEQ Leadership

• Lead the development of a portfolio-wide HSEQ approach that enables consistent standards, scalable processes, and project-specific execution across all EPC/EPCM projects.
• Serve as primary HSEQ advisor to Project Directors and EPC/EPCM leadership teams.
• Drive adoption of Ramboll's HSEQ program and translate its expectations into practical project-level behaviours, controls, and leadership routines.
• Provide strategic HSEQ guidance during proposals and contract negotiations to align client expectations and establish the conditions needed for effective safety management.
• Provide HSEQ 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 HSEQ 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 HSEQ 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 HSEQ 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 HSEQ requirements are embedded into contracting strategies, procurement packages, bid documents, mobilisation plans, and contractor management processes.
• Support project teams in translating Ramboll and client HSEQ 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 HSEQ 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 HSEQ controls are effective, understood, and consistently applied by the relevant project teams and contractors.

Safety Culture & Engagement

Demonstrate visible HSEQ leadership that builds trust, accountability, and proactive safety behavio