Senior Manager, HSSE Excellence

RWE Clean Energy, LLC

To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

Functional area: Health, Safety & Environment

Remuneration: Exempt

RWECE seeks a highly skilled and motivated Senior Manager, HSSE Excellence
, with a focus on investigations, program development, and organizational learning. This position is responsible for driving the creation and implementation of effective learning programs that foster a culture of HSSE excellence, thereby enhancing the organization’s capabilities through the development, facilitation, and management of comprehensive programs aimed at promoting high-quality investigations and ongoing learning and improvement.

The role will regularly involve the design, development, revision, and continuous enhancement of HSSE training policies, programs, curricula, courses, and competency verification checklists. These elements must align with internal standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

The individual in this role must possess demonstrable knowledge, skills, experience, discernment, and interpersonal abilities directly related to the North American energy industry, and the continual improvement of HSSE (Health, Safety, Environmental Protection & Physical Security).

• Develop and oversee strategies for organizational learning that promote continual improvement in HSSE performance
• Create and implement frameworks for effective learning from incidents, everyday work experiences, and other HSSE-related events
• Lead and oversee HSSE investigations to ensure thorough analysis and accurate reporting of incidents
• Ensure investigations have competent, assigned, cross-functional team members
• Track and ensure quality investigations are conducted in accordance with RWECE policy
• Utilize findings from investigations to drive organizational learning and reduce risk
• Standardize a uniform investigation methodology and deploy it across the business
• Facilitate the creation and management of Learning Teams to enhance collective knowledge-sharing and problem-solving capabilities
• Encourage collaboration among teams to identify trends and recommend improvements
• Design, develop, implement, and maintain Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) and Potential Serious Injury and Fatality (PSIF) programs
• Implement processes and trainings such as the Energy Wheel, High-Energy Hazards and Direct Controls, and High-Energy Control Assessments to reduce the likelihood of a serious injury or fatalities (SIFs)
• Provide training and support to ensure understanding and adherence to program objectives across the organization
• Integrate and champion Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles within the organization
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed HOP principles into daily operations and promote a risk management-focused mindset
• Utilize RWECE’s Safety Critical Information process to disseminate and share learnings throughout the organization

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) preferred
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in the field of Occupational Safety and Health or a closely related field
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in North American energy, manufacturing, military, or similar field
• Extensive experience in conducting incident investigations with a focus on organizational learning
• Demonstrated competency in leading and training personnel on how to conduct learning teams
• Knowledge and integration of Human and Organizational Performance
• Design, implementation, and continual improvement of HSSE Management Systems (e.g., ANSI Z10, ISO 45001)
• Skills in preparing and presenting concise and accurate information to executive leadership, internal and external customers, stakeholders, etc., across the organization
• Extensive Training Administration experience
• Occupational Health & Safety or Environmental Protection
• Design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Management Systems (e.g., ISO, ANSI)
• Design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Microsoft 365, Visio, Excel, Tableau, and Power BI
• Extensive experience with Microsoft 365 (i.e., Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint,…