Description
The INNIO Advantage:
By combining a rich legacy in the power and gas compression space with pioneering technology, INNIO brings our customers affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy solutions for today—and tomorrow. As a very successful company, we are experiencing significant growth in the United States. Today, we help meet the world's energy needs with 64 GW of installed capacity and 48,000 of our powerful Jenbacher and Waukesha engines, which can be found in more than 100 countries. By harnessing our history of energy industry firsts, along with the power of digital innovation, we will continue to deliver for the future.
Welcome to a World of Innovation and Inspiration. Welcome to INNIO!
Position Overview:
The Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety (QEH&S) Manager will lead the QEH&S functions across all U.S. Service regions and sites.This is a hands-on role, serving as the senior field authority for service quality, ensuring that field execution matches defined standards through active site presence, audits, and corrective action, with EH&S integrated to support safe and compliant delivery.
This role will be based in Houston, TX.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Lead the QEH&S function across all U.S. service regions sites
- Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local agencies (OSHA, EPA, DOT, and etc.)
- Create and lead a Field Quality Ambassador Network, enabling local champions to reinforce standards, share best practices, and act as extensions of the quality function in the field
- Drive quality debriefs following service jobs, audits, or incidents to capture lessons learned and improve field execution
- Collaborate with Field Service Managers and Staff Managers to ensure quality expectations are clearly understood and reinforced at all levels
- Lead and oversee risk assessments and job hazard analysis (JHAs)
- Own and serve as the subject‑matter expert on safety programs, including Lockout/Tagout, (LOTO), work permits, Confined Space Entry, etc.
- Drive field supervision checks ensuring PPE compliance, safe work environments, proper tooling use, calibrated tool practices, and adherence to field service manuals
- Lead and reinforce EH&S execution in the field, ensuring safety expectations are actively applied, not just documented
- Drive near‑miss reporting, incident reporting, and corrective action follow‑up, ensuring lessons learned are communicated and embedded
- Ensure regular onsite safety meetings are conducted, and that accident and incident processes are clearly defined, understood, and followed
- Support and oversee incident investigations, root cause analysis, and preventive action implementation in coordination with EH&S specialist
- Oversee environmental processes related to waste oil, chemical and water disposal, filtration systems, and site environmental controls
- Lead internal audits and support external inspections, regulatory visits, and customer audits
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with various departments to ensure alignment, share information, and drive efficient coordinated execution
- Support training programs for EHS, environmental compliance, and service quality
- Develop, implement, and maintain U.S. specific processes, procedures, and standards aligned with Company requirements
- Build and maintain clear quality and EH&S reporting, providing leadership with visibility into trends, risks, audit outcomes, and improvement progress
- Standardize practices across all shops, project sites, and field service locations
- Act as a partner to Field Service and Operations leadership, ensuring alignment between expectations, execution, and customer outcomes
- Provide day‑to‑day guidance, feedback, and support to team members
- Assign work, set clear expectations, and ensure responsibilities are understood
- Provide coaching, conduct routine check-ins, and maintain a positive, collaborative team environment
- Support onboarding and training for new hires
- Help drive accountability and maintain consistency across the team
- Performs other duties as assigned to assist with successful operations and business continuity
Eligibility Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Quality, or related field; or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum seven (7) or more years of QEH&S experience
- Experience conducting audits, investigations, risk assessments, and program development
- Experience in field service, industrial operations, oil & gas, energy, or ancillary environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Willingness to travel up to 50% as business demands
- Valid driver’s license
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Strong working knowledge of quality management systems and audit practices, with experience driving corrective and preventive actions from audit findings
- Working knowledge of U.S. EH&S regulatory requirements (e.g., OSHA, EPA, DOT) as they apply to field service and industrial operations
- Deep understanding of field service execution, including how quality is created—or lost—through planning, workmanship, documentation, and follow‑through
- Strong audit and analytical skills, with the ability to identify systemic issues versus isolated non‑conformances and drive sustainable improvements
- Strong leadership skills, problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities
- Ability to interpret regulations and convert them into actionable field processes
- Ability to travel to field sites, projects, shops, and customer locations as needed
- Excellent communication skills with ability to partner with technicians, service leaders, and executives
- Ability to build a new function and improve existing programs
- Ability to work in a field or office environment
- Ability to stand, sit, walk, use hands and fingers, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, hear, climb, balance
INNIO offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. INNIO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
