Head (f/m/d) of GT SO EQS EHS

Job Description

The Head of EHS provides strategic leadership, governance, and long-term direction for Health, Safety and Environment, in close alignment with the Head of Environment, Sustainability and Social Responsibility and Head of Quality Management, across GT SO. The role ensures regulatory compliance while deliberately going beyond formal requirements to embed prevention, responsibility, and safety ownership as core leadership principles. Reporting to the Head of GT SO EQS and working closely with executive leadership, this role shapes and drives the EHS strategy, governance model, and transformation roadmap. It ensures that EHS is consistently treated as a value-driven leadership responsibility, integral to sound and responsible decision-making. The role contributes to creating an environment in which decisions across projects and operations consistently reflect a long-term commitment to the safety, health, and well-being of people, as well as environmental stewardship.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Strategic EHS Leadership & Governance: Define, strengthen, and govern a robust Global EHS Management System aligned with Siemens Energy EQS frameworks and ISO 14001 / ISO 45001, embedding EHS criteria consistently into business, tendering, and contracting decisions.
• Contractor Governance & Partnerships: Strengthen contractor governance while fostering trust-based partnerships, promoting transparent subcontracting models and shared EHS accountability across the entire contractor value chain.
• Safety Ownership & Culture: Embed Safety Ownership at all organizational levels through principles such as "Zone it - Own it," supported by the Safety Culture Ladder, visible leadership, and consistent role modeling.
• Capability Building & Learning Culture: Strengthen onboarding and training-particularly for contractors-while fostering a strong learning culture that translates incidents, near misses, and operational experience into continuous improvement.
• Digitalization, Data & Predictive Safety: Advance digital Permit-to-Work systems and leverage AI and data analytics for pattern recognition, predictive risk analysis, leadership dashboards, and risk-based training recommendations.
• Safety by Design & Prevention: Integrate EHS considerations early into engineering, design, and project planning to proactively identify and mitigate risks through preventive, design-led solutions.

What You Bring

• MBA and/or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Management, Operations, or a comparable field
• Proven senior leadership experience in EHS within industrial, construction, or project-driven environments
• Strong experience in global projects and working with interdisciplinary, multicultural teams
• Expert knowledge of incident investigation and root cause analysis methodologies
• Relevant EHS and safety certifications combined with high personal integrity and resilience
• Ability to influence across organizational levels and willingness to travel internationally (approx. 40%)

About the Team

Our [Corporate or Global Functions] are essential in driving the company's strategic initiatives and ensuring operational excellence across various departments, business areas, and regions. These roles support our vision to become the most valued energy technology company in the world. As part of our team, you contribute to our vision by shaping the global energy transition, partnering with our internal and external stakeholders, and conducting business responsibly and in compliance with legal requirements and regulations.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programs and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical