EHS Manager Italy & Denmark

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an “Environmental Health and Safety Manager” role for for our client in their Italy and Denmark Hub, who is a world leader in mining of performance minerals for the industry. 

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

Leads functionally Environment, Health and Safety activities and resources across the sites of the Hub to ensure the regulatory compliance of the operations, the continuous implementation of Group policies, protocols and culture,with the primary objective of preventing accidents and incidents occurrence, .

JOB SCOPE/DIMENSIONS

Part of the Business Area Performance Minerals EMEA which scope is: 80 sites in 24 countries - 3700 employees - €1.2b revenue.

Italy & Denmark Hub involves 8 factories, 4 open pit operations, 1 underground mine and 1 logistics platform, including circa 300 employees, 100 M€ sales

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Alongside the Hub Director, responsible for Environment, Health, Safety practices and results across the hub sites and teams

• Prioritize EHS annual objectives aligned with the BA roadmap and Group`s Safety System.

• Promote a strong Safety culture across the hub.

• Support sites to drive continuous improvements by prioritizing improvement action plans and risk prevention

• Lead accident management process by ensuring timely communication, mobilizing the site teams to conduct investigation, root cause analysis and to define in collaboration with the site managers and local EHS managers the corrective action plans

• Ensures industrial and mining operations of the hub are run in compliance with local environmental regulations, CSRD and Group guidelines by periodically conducting EHS assessments and gap analysis with the site teams.

• Collaborate with Hub Operation managers, Site managers and on-site EHS managers to deploy improvement initiatives and to provide EHS capex guidance.

• Promote a proactive networking for sharing and migrating good practices across the hub

• Key interfaces: ensure tight coordination with Hub Managers, BA EHS managers, sites managers and site local EHS contacts for the deployment of EHS programs and priorities

• The Hub EHS manager can be acting as EHS manager of the lead site of the hub.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Ability to travel up to 50% of his/her time in Italy and Denmark

Key competencies

• Good knowledge of Safety management Systems and industrial operations

• Well versed in local and industrial EHS regulations

• Engaged, self driven, pragmatic, action and results oriented, structured work approach and problem solving

• Good communication skills to interact with shopfloor employees,managers, contractors, consultants, authorities and to collaborate with Group functions

• Ability to explain, create synergies, influence, coach team, lead programs and projects

• Continuous Improvement mindset

Ideal background/ experience

• Engineer or equivalent

• Good level of English & Italian

• Minimum of 5 years experience of EHS management, in industrial operations

Typical profile

• Experienced multi industrial sites EHS manager