SH&E Manager

Job Description:

The SH&E Safety Manager– ES Operations provides senior leadership, professional oversight, and strategic direction for Environment, Safety, Health, and Risk (ESH&R) across ES Operations. This role partners closely with Global Business Unit (GBU) and operational leadership to drive consistent, risk-based safety performance, prevent Life-Changing Events (LCEs), and ensure compliance with corporate standards, regulatory requirements, and client expectations.

This role goes beyond compliance. The Safety Manager is a trusted advisor and influencer who drives culture change, embeds accountability at every level of the organization, and ensures safety is fully integrated into business planning and operational decision-making. The position receives broad objectives from the Corporate Vice President of Safety and exercises independent judgment in execution.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in high-risk industries and understands how serious incidents occur — focusing on risk identification, prevention, and leadership behaviors rather than reactive metrics alone.

What You'll Be Doing:

Strategic Safety Leadership

• Lead the development and execution of a risk-based safety strategy focused on preventing serious incidents and fatalities.
• Translate safety expectations into clear, actionable behaviors for leaders, managers, and frontline teams.
• Ensure safety is embedded into business planning, operations, and decision-making — not treated as a standalone function.

ESHARP Program Oversight

• Develop, communicate, and oversee Parsons’ Environment, Safety, Health, and Risk Program (ESHARP) across all office and project locations within ES Operations.
• Provide senior professional oversight, technical guidance, training, and support to GBU and Project Safety Managers to ensure consistent implementation of safety programs.
• Ensure effective implementation of safety standards, policies, procedures, and life-saving rules.

Leadership Engagement & Culture

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, influencing decision-making through data, insight, and credibility.
• Drive leadership engagement, accountability, and ownership for safety outcomes.
• Champion a proactive, learning-based safety culture aligned with Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) principles and continuous improvement.

Risk Management & Prevention

• Identify, assess, and prioritize critical risks across multiple programs, projects, and facilities.
• Establish and maintain effective risk registers, critical controls, and assurance processes.
• Lead and oversee incident and LCE investigations and learning reviews, ensuring systemic issues are addressed and lessons learned are applied.

Operational Excellence

• Lead safety audit, assurance, and verification efforts, including oversight of corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor the effectiveness of safety and health programs and ensure compliance with internal reporting, recordkeeping, and workers’ compensation claim procedures.
• Balance strategic initiatives with day-to-day operational demands in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Metrics, Reporting & Governance

• Establish, monitor, and continuously improve leading and lagging safety indicators to measure performance and drive action.
• Collect, analyze, and maintain safety performance data and statistics across ES Operations to support enterprise risk management.
• Keep senior leadership informed of significant performance trends, emerging risks, and internal or external regulatory developments.
• Provide clear, concise safety and financial performance updates to executive leadership.

Finance, Budget & Resource Management

• Develop and manage the safety budget, ensuring alignment with business objectives and risk-based priorities.
• Forecast safety resource needs (staffing, training, tools, technology) and justify investments based on risk reduction and value creation.
• Monitor safety-related costs and partner with Finance and Operations to manage spend, variances, and appropriate cost allocation.
• Support business planning and proposals by integrating safety resource requirements into project budgets and pursuits.

Business Development & External Engagement

• Support business development and proposal activities by contributing safety strategies, compliance approaches, risk assessments, and performance data.
• Represent Parsons at national and international safety, health, and environmental conferences, industry forums, and professional organizations.

Leadership

• Leads full-time, part-time, and collateral duty project and program SH&E specialists in implementing work plans and the company’s risk management practices.
• Represents the business unit SH&E director on project or program worksites.

Reporting Relationship

• Reports to the Corporate Vice President of Safety and partners closely with ES Operations leadership, Global Business Units and project teams.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• US Citizen
• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related field. Degree in non-related field may be considered with relevant safety management experience.
• 10+ years of progressive safety leadership experience in high-risk industries (e.g., construction, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, aviation, industrial services).
• Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and driving measurable safety culture change.
• Strong understanding of risk management, serious incident prevention, and safety management systems.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and competing demands while maintaining focus on critical risk.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage executives, field teams, and technical specialists.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Professional certifications (CSP, CIH, NEBOSH, or equivalent).
• Experience implementing Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) or similar learning-based approaches.
• Experience supporting large, complex, or geographically distributed operations.

What Success Looks Like:

• Leaders actively own safety outcomes and consistently model expected behaviors.
• Critical risks are clearly understood, prioritized, and effectively controlled.
• Safety is embedded into how work is planned and executed — not an afterthought.
• The organization demonstrates continuous improvement in culture, accountability, and risk reduction.

Security Clearance Requirement:

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