Senior Environmental Risk Manager

**Job Description Summary**: The GE Vernova Environmental & Properties Risk team in the GE Vernova Supply Chain Development organization provides strategic and technical support to manage environmental risk across the GE Vernova global footprint. As a member of this team, the Senior Environmental Risk Manager will serve as a lead assessor of environmental risk for key strategic initiatives. This senior manager will work closely with team members from Environmental & Properties Risk, business development, real estate, sourcing, finance, legal, EHS, governmental affairs, communications, operations, and facilities to provide environmental insight and considerations into key initiatives and to ensure appropriate environmental risk review. In addition, this role will be responsible for managing a limited portfolio of remedial projects.

This is a unique opportunity to help define GE Vernova’s global approach to proactively managing environmental risk.

**PLEASE NOTE: Position Could Be Located At Multiple GE Vernova Locations and Remote/Flexible Global Applicants Encouraged To Apply.**

The GE Vernova Environmental & Properties Risk team in the GE Vernova Supply Chain Development organization provides strategic and technical support to manage environmental risk across the GE Vernova global footprint. As a member of this team, the Senior Environmental Risk Manager will serve as a lead assessor of environmental risk for key strategic initiatives. This senior manager will work closely with team members from Environmental & Properties Risk, business development, real estate, sourcing, finance, legal, EHS, governmental affairs, communications, operations, and facilities to provide environmental insight and considerations into key initiatives and to ensure appropriate environmental risk review. In addition, this role will be responsible for managing a limited portfolio of remedial projects.

This is a unique opportunity to help define GE Vernova’s global approach to proactively managing environmental risk.

**What you’ll do**

In serving as the lead assessor of environmental risk for GE Vernova’s strategic initiatives, the Senior Environmental Risk Manager will identify, assess, and communicate complex issues of environmental risk and trade-offs to a wide range of internal stakeholders. This role will provide dedicated environmental support for:

- Business Development (_e.g._, leading environmental due diligence and risk evaluations for acquisitions, divestitures, joint venture opportunities, etc.);
- real estate transactions (purchases, sales, leases);
- business restructurings (plant closures, integrations, operational relocations);
- new projects and initiatives; and
- global environmental consultant support contracts.

Other key responsibilities include:

- Establishing and maintaining communication rhythms with key internal stakeholder groups such as business development, real estate, sourcing, and finance.
- Developing standard operating best practices, guidance and/or processes to ensure consistent and appropriate environmental risk review.
- Develop appropriate KPIs, track critical milestones, action plans, risks and help needed.
- Serve as expert resource by staying up to date with environmental due diligence issues, approaches and standards.

It is possible that these responsibilities may be rebalanced with other similar responsibilities depending on the demands and capacity within the Environmental & Properties Risk Team.

**Qualifications**

**General Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited University or College in environmental science, geology, engineering, biology, chemistry, or equivalent discipline.
- Minimum of 10 years’ applied project management experience in environmental, remediation and/or EHS within a company, regulatory agency and/or consulting firm.
- Demonstrated experience in providing environmental real estate and/or M&A transactional support including:

- Expert familiarity of ASTM standard and process for assessing risk via Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments;
- Demonstrated experience preparing/using of Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments to assess risks;
- Experience leading and coordinating environmental due diligence efforts for large, complex transactions.
- Ability to understand materiality, risks and trade-offs relative to other considerations.
- Understanding of legal requirements, regulatory environment, environmental risk, reputational considerations, local issues, etc.
- Proven ability to coordinate with consultant teams to generate project cost estimates, scopes of work, proposals, and reports.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent communication (oral/written) skills.
- Demonstrated collaboration skills within diverse teams.
- Ability to clearly communicate complex technical information in an easy to understand manner.
- Demonstrated success in coordinating technical, financial, reputational and legal components