Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability Associate Director

Join the vibrant team of a global manufacturing leader as they seek an enthusiastic and dynamic  Environmental Health , Safety and Sustainability Associate Director  (EHSS)for their Galway site. In this exhilarating role, you'll be at the forefront of driving Environmental Health & Safety initiatives, ensuring compliance, and fostering an energetic culture of safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicates the business impacts of EHS to leadership; uses influence to advance EHS compliance/programs
• Manages EHS budget
• Cultivate strong relationships with external regulators (HSA, EPA), maintaining effective collaboration
• Champion EHS support for the introduction and review of processes, ensuring plant and equipment changes align with safety standards.
• Manage, develop, and continually improve the site's EHS Management System
• Ensures that site systems are in place to maintain 100% compliance with all Irish and EU Regulations, site’s IED licence
• Facilitates all EHS&S audits (HSA, EPA, EHS&S, ISO 14001 / ISO 45001)
• Understand and complies with all the regulations governing the environmental systems, including knowledge of ISO 14001 & ISO 50001.
• Build and manage staff while creating an environment that motivates people who can work in highly team-based, matrixed, participative, results-orientated organisation.
• Direct and manage all aspects of the Occupational Health programme and liaise closely with HR and Operations.
• Work with the site leadership team and corporate to establish an annual set of EH&S goals, objectives and performance expectations for the site
• Direct large scale EH&S related emergency situations, including emergency response systems and ensuring proper hazardous materials & electrical systems risk management.
• Act as the Management Representative for the Environmental Management System.
• Design and manage the delivery and implementation of all EH&S programs which ensure EH&S compliance of division with appropriate regulations and internal (divisional and corporate) policies.
• Lead internal EH&S audit process.
• Work with EH&S counterparts from across the company to leverage EH&S resources and programs that positively impact EH&S performance and reduce costs for EH&S efforts.

Education, Experience and Skills

• Min. HETAC level 8 in Occupational Health & Safety or relevant discipline with 10+ years’ experience 
• Master’s Degree or Postgraduate qualification in Occupational Health & Safety highly desirable.
• Appropriate professional certifications in related fields preferred i.e. CMIOSH.
• Excellent Stakeholder management skills
• Highly proactive, mature judgment and decision making ability 
• He/she is knowledgeable of legislative requirements, and systems needed to implement sound EH&S practice.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills are essential.
• Ability to work autonomously & manage production related EH&S work essential.
• Understand and complies with all the regulations governing the environmental systems, including knowledge of ISO 14001 & ISO 50001.

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For further information on this Environmental, Health, safety & Sustainability Associate Director  role in Galway please contact Caroline Kingston on 0868395531/ caroline@hero.ie Check out all our open jobs on our HERO Recruitment website – https://www.hero.ie/

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