EHS Leader

Job Description Summary

The Muskegon EHS Leader will be responsible for owning all environmental, health, and safety programs across the Muskegon and Norton Shores location to ensure a safe, compliant, and continuously improving work environment. This role provides strategic direction and hands-on leadership for all EHS tasks, functions, and personnel, including program development, implementation, and oversight of regulatory compliance. The EHS Leader partners closely with site leadership, operations, maintenance, and HR to identify and control risks, drive injury and incident reduction, and embed a strong safety culture at all levels of the organization. This role ensures compliance with all applicable regulatory, customer, and corporate requirements, while driving risk reduction and supporting operational excellence in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC).

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead EHS strategy and culture: Own the development and deployment of the EHS vision, roadmap, and goals, aligned with business priorities and GE Aerospace requirements. Provide visible, floor-level leadership that promotes a strong safety culture, empowers employees to speak up, and integrates EHS into daily operations and decision-making.
• Ensure compliance and manage risk: Maintain compliant EHS management systems, procedures, and permits, meeting all applicable regulatory and corporate standards. Proactively identify, assess, and control risks through hazard assessments, job safety analyses, safe work permits, and targeted risk-reduction projects.
• Drive investigations, audits, and continuous improvement: Lead or oversee incident investigations and root cause analyses, ensuring timely and effective corrective and preventive actions. Plan and execute audits, inspections, and self-assessments, using FLIGHT DECK, GE Aerospace's proprietary lean operating model, and data trends to problem-solve and drive continuous improvement.
• Develop training, engagement, and emergency preparedness: Create and maintain EHS training plans and ensure completion and documentation. Lead employee engagement initiatives and manage emergency preparedness, response, and contingency programs, including drills and coordination with internal leaders and external agencies for both locations. Develop relationships with local emergency management agencies and familiarize them with our work and locations.
• Manage EHS performance and standardization: Define, track, and report EHS KPIs and leading indicators for the site, using data to prioritize actions and resources. Standardize EHS practices, tools, and processes where practical across both locations, while tailoring for site-specific regulatory and operational needs.
• Lead and develop people and partnerships: Manage and develop EHS staff and/or matrixed resources, setting clear expectations and supporting growth. Build strong partnerships with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Facilities, HR, and other functions to embed EHS into projects, changes, and daily management.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree accredited college or university + Minimum of 5 years of EHS experience OR (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 4 years in industrial hygiene/safety experience + a minimum of 5 years in manufacturing experience)

Desired Characteristics

• Master's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 6 years of experience in EHS, industrial hygiene/safety in manufacturing.
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn; self-aware of own development opportunities
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively.
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work leveraging values stream maps and action plans
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker, coaches others through the problem-solving process
• Strong ability to identify, develop, and encourage talent.
• Working knowledge of OSHA guidelines and environmental regulations.

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor"). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor's welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

Compensation Grade

SPB2

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes