NORESCO Environmental, Health & Safety Manager

NORESCO is dedicated to helping clients achieve their sustainability goals. We specialize in providing innovative solutions to reduce carbon footprints and enhance energy efficiency across various industries. Our work creates modern, sustainable, and healthy buildings, campuses, and communities while saving energy and water, and optimizing operational and capital budgets. NORESCO is also a leader in the effort to address the modern energy infrastructure challenges facing the nation and our world, including decarbonization, electrification, grid flexibility, sustainability, and resiliency. Through its projects, NORESCO has guaranteed more than $5 billion in energy and operating cost savings at more than 10,000 facilities throughout the U.S. and abroad, while reducing customer CO2 emissions by more than 25 million metric tons, equivalent to planting 1.4 million acres of forest. 

NORESCO is a Carrier company, with a commitment to reducing our carbon footprint and achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.  We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages.

About this Role

The NORESCO Environmental, Health & Safety Manager will be responsible for providing direction, planning and oversight of EH&S policies and programs to ensure compliance with applicable local laws and regulations and corporate standards across business operations at NORESCO. Our functional purpose is to support NORESCO’s mission by creating business value through sustainable EHS solutions. The role can be remote with a preference for proximity to the NORESCO HQ location in Westborough, MA, with travel up to 50%. This role will report directly to the North America Services EHS Associate Director.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate as an active member of the NORESCO Leadership Team, supporting the operation’s success.
• Represent NORESCO within the EHS Function, as an active member of the broader North America EHS Services team and WHQ EHS.
• Act as customer liaison for EHS related matters with customers and associated projects.
• Develop, implement and measure the success of EHS programs, strategies, policies, training, and procedures in alignment with Corporate and Business Unit expectations.
• Build, update, and maintain a NORESCO EHS SharePoint site to house templates, policies, and program documents for employee reference.
• Work with the business to ensure all EHS requirements for NORESCO projects are documented and executed to company, customer and regulatory standards.  
• Analyze data to lead and coordinate the safety effort for continual improvement.
• Visit job sites to ensure effective implementation of EHS processes and programs. Identify existing or potential risks and hazards. Ensure the recommended corrective or preventative measures are completed in a timely manner.
• Oversee workers’ compensation program administration including working with all parties to aggressively manage and support modified duty and return to work programs.
• Drive incident and proactive (near miss, stop work, hazard ID) reporting. Facilitate root cause analysis of incidents and injuries to determine specific actions needed to prevent their recurrence.
• Define and execute EHS training and orientation. Identify EHS related training requirements for associates and support processes to ensure training effectiveness and compliance. This includes management and tracking of OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 training for applicable employees.
• Ensure all EHS related records are accurately maintained/organized and in compliance with local, state, and national requirements or any other regulatory agency rules and regulations.
• Ensure contractors and subcontractors have implemented an effective safety process through pre-qualification and job site review.
• Provide information, metrics and programs to the business for customer required contractor qualifications.
• Coach/mentor all employees, including leadership, on safe work practices, hazard identification and risk management.
• Direct risk assessments and recommend control measures for all potential areas of concern.
• Prepare technical EHS regulatory reporting.
• Lead process of reviewing and approving safety data sheets, and new chemical request process.
• Organize and lead teams/committees to identify and implement EHS improvements.

Required Qualifications  

• High School Diploma or GED
• 5+ years of practical environmental health and safety management experience at a medium-large site or field/construction location.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Recognized Certification in Environmental, Safety or Health, Risk Management such as CIH, CSP, etc.
• Previous experience in field service / construction site safety management.
• Previous experience with Federal projects, specifically EM-385.
• Previous experience with utility, power generation, and wastewater facilities.
• Strong computer experience in MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word) and EHS related data management systems (i.e. Enablon or similar).
• SharePoint development and management experience.
• Ability to develop training content and deliver in-person and digitally.
• Demonstrated success in leading, motivating, engaging and influencing others.
• Demonstrated ability to research regulations, develop a program and successfully operationalize within a business.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt well to fast-paced environments with changing circumstances, direction and strategy.

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Carrier is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. Carrier provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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