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Director Global Health & Safety

Your role:

As Global H&S Director you will provide an effective health & safety advisory and management service and will also advise and assist the business in meeting all its statutory health & safety responsibilities. Doing so, you will promote a culture of continual safety behavioral improvement.

Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Develop and deliver the Health and Safety plan for Cartamundi so there is a robust compliance framework which is appropriate and consistent with the relevant legislation and regulations.
  • Keep up to date with new legislation and maintain a good working knowledge of all Health and Safety legislation and any industry relevant developments.
  • Provide positive strategic guidance and leadership relating to Health and Safety
  • Ensure working practices are safe and comply with legislation
  • To ensure risk assessments are carried out accurately, reviewed regularly and control measures are implemented appropriately, alongside the application of a continual improvement approach to reducing risks
  • Improve safety of the work environment across the business by increasing incident reporting to continually reduce accidents.
  • Foster an engaging continuous improvement culture relating to Health and Safety.
  • Continually develop and maintain a positive and pro-active H&S culture by coaching, influencing the leadership and enhancing H&S competency across all areas of the business.
  • Establish and maintain H&S systems and reporting including KPI’s, audits etc.
  • Lead in-house training with the leadership and employees about Health and Safety and associated risks
  • Take the lead and provide guidance and advice on a number of specialist areas including fire regulations, hazardous substances, noise, safeguarding machinery and occupational diseases
  • Lead and participate in projects as required to ensure they are completed on time in budget and to the right standards
  • Positively represent the company with external organisations, customers and suppliers so that standards are met as and when required
  • Embed and commit to Cartamundi’s values, policies, procedures and objectives and ensure that they are safe and comply with legislation

    • Your profile:

    Our ideal candidate has the following experience and competences:

  • Natural, hands-on leader with excellent engaging and influencing capabilities to ensure successful implementation of a global health & safety approach in a complex, rapidly changing and growing environment
  • Minimum 10 years in health and safety position, preferably in an international, rapidly changing environment.
  • Good working knowledge of international health safety management systems and current legislation & best practice, knowledge of an environmental management system is a plus.
  • Highly organized and methodical approach with the ability to deal with complex, technical issues, analyse data and explain the results in simple terms
  • Excellent project management with the ability to analyse and present information clearly verbally, visually and in writing
  • Engaging communication style allowing you to effectively navigate throughout the organization, to align staff in different departments towards a common goal and to positively influence the different stakeholders
  • Entrepreneurial mindset combined with a pragmatic and down-to-earth mentality
  • Resilient through change, effective in dealing with ambiguity and with a strong sense of urgency
  • Fluency in English. Any other language is considered a plus

    • Our offer:

    We offer you a varied position with an attractive package and the possibilities for personal and professional growth.

    Interested?

    Are you ready for a new challenge? Apply online here.

    We look forward to receiving your resume and application letter.

    Contact: 

    Cartamundi Group
    Visbeekstraat 22 - 2300 Turnhout - Belgium

    Phone: +32 (0) 14 449 929

    Apply now on CV Warehouse

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    Director Global Health & Safety

    Company:
    Cartamundi
    City:
    Belgique
    Contract type: 
    Permanent, Full-time
    Categories: 
    Quality Engineer
    Career level: 
    Director
    Published:
    27.05.2024
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