HSE&S Director

Deze procedure is gesloten (06-03-2017).
Vakgebied
Technology
Salaris
salary undisclosed
Locatie
Amsterdam
Dienstverband
Permanent
Headhunter
AkzoNobel

The organisation

AkzoNobel creates everyday essentials to make people’s lives more liveable and inspiring. As a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals, we supply essential ingredients, essential protection and essential color to industries and consumers worldwide. Backed by a pioneering heritage, our innovative products and sustainable technologies are designed to meet the growing demands of our fast-changing planet, while making life easier. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we have approximately 45,000 people in around 80 countries, while our portfolio includes well-known brands such as Flexa, Sikkens, Alabastine and Jozo. Consistently ranked as a leader in sustainability, we are dedicated to energizing cities and communities while creating a protected, colorful world where life is improved by what we do.

The position

Health, Safety, Environment & Security (HSE&S) is integral to all AkzoNobel’s objectives and our strategy is to deliver leading performance across all our activities in terms of HSE&S standards, performance and capability. 

Within this context, your mission in this role is to lead HSE&S activities across our world leading Performance Coatings (PC) Business Area (BA). In particular you identify critical gaps in HSE&S capability and resources, develop and support the implementation of long term plans to close those gaps. Where necessary you leverage HSE&S capability and resources from outside the BA, which demands strong networking skills to ensure cooperation across organizational boundaries.

A further core task is to assist the BA leader and the BA Operations Director in allocating HSE&S improvement tasks to the appropriate members of the BA Management Team, coaching them in their (HSE&S) roles. This requires strong influencing skills as you create ownership across supply chain, manufacturing, site directors, HR directors, administration, finance, marketing, sales, RD&I, and other functions.

Is this a challenge that matches your talents and ambitions as an entrepreneurial and results oriented problem solver and negotiator with real project management skills? Can you drive the continuous improvement of HSE&S processes, policies, and standards? Do you have the interpersonal skills to work inclusively with the HSE&S community so that the business experiences ‘one voice’ that will meet collective objectives? Above all, can you make a real difference within our dynamic, multinational and multicultural business environment?

If you offer all this and more, we invite you to apply for the position of HSE&S Business Area Director.

Tasks & responsibilities

Encompassing policy, capability building and governance, this is a high profile HSE&S role based at Amsterdam, the Netherlands. You will be a member of an HSE&S Leadership Team that develops and champions an HSE&S Common Platform for all our global BAs and business units (BU). 

Thus you provide fresh thinking so that we achieve world class HSE&S improvement across a number of areas:

Delivery

  • You guide line management in developing and ensuring implementation and delivery of HSE&S policies, plans, practices and goals for their BU or site. All activities are in line with the AkzoNobel HSE&S Policy, Directives, Rules & Procedures, and in compliance with relevant regulatory requirements. In doing so you embed a safety culture and manage hazards, and you brief the Operations Director on BA performance, capability and needs.

Continuous Improvement 

  • You act as a change agent for continuous improvement across the BA’s HSE&S standards, performance, capability and culture. This requires you to spend time on the shop floor as you assess and report performance and compliance. You also lead analysis of BA-specific needs and gaps including lagging units, and you proactively case manage injuries and incidents.

Capability

  • You leverage expertise to extend HSE&S knowledge throughout your own unit and others, participating in AkzoNobel expert pools for the delivery of the Safety Common Platform and HSE&S Faculty learning programs. You also audit and/or perform incident investigation, and conduct training activities.

Strategy

  • As a high level HSE&S thinker, you contribute to the strategy for the design, deployment and delivery of the AkzoNobel HSE&S Policy, Directives, Rules & Procedures and Safety Common Platform, agreeing and aligning objectives.

People 

  • As an inspiring leader you attract, lead, coach, appraise and develop employees in line with HR guidelines and operating model. You also facilitate the talent management process, and nominate HSE&S business partners for the expert pools. And you successful manage and drive activities within the BA and respective BU’s through a matrix organization of direct and indirect reports and peers. 

Candidate profile

To apply for this position you must possess all the following attributes:

  • Bachelor, Masters or Doctorate in HSE&S, Engineering or a related discipline;
  • Strong strategic and conceptual skills and the ability to execute and follow through;
  • Able to gain acceptance of plans and activities by convincing others to move willingly towards a desired goal or course of action;
  • Relevant experience in different multiple units, disciplines, locations and/or other manufacturing companies;
  • Broad (people) management capabilities
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including fluent written and spoken English.

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the link below. For further information, please contact Marjan van Grinsven, Talent Resourcing Manager, +31 (0)88-010 6789, option 2. Only online applications will be accepted. A pre-employment screening may form part of the selection process.

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Deze procedure is gesloten (06-03-2017).