Health & Safety Manager Europe

The Company

Imerys is the world’s leading supplier of mineral-based specialty solutions for the industry with €3.8 billion in revenue and 13,700 employees in 54 countries in 2023. The Group offers high value-added and functional solutions to a wide range of industries and fast-growing markets such as solutions for the energy transition and sustainable construction, as well as natural solutions for consumer goods. Imerys draws on its understanding of applications, technological knowledge, and expertise in material science to deliver solutions which contribute essential properties to customers’ products and their performance. As part of its commitment to responsible development, Imerys promotes environmentally friendly products and processes in addition to supporting its customers in their decarbonization efforts.

The Position

Health & Safety Manager Europe

Job Summary

MISSIONS

• Reports to the BA QEHS Director, alongside the BA Industrial Center of Excellence, leads systematically the Health and Safety practices towards best-in-class at the operations/facilities across Europe; shares strong accountabilities and delivers high standard of performances via partnership and collaboration;

• Lead the annual Safety Culture Maturity matrix review together with the BA health & safety network; benchmark the sites at different stages and develop common “means” to speed up the cultural transformation towards an interdependent mode at priority sites;

• Consolidate and track health & safety performance data (both KPIs & action plans) for management reports, regular business review, visual & smart communication to the operations; and conduct data-mining to evolve timely the focal programs according to the changing health & safety vulnerabilities;

• Supports the Hub Directors and site (E)HS Managers in the region to oversee the implementation of the Imerys Safety System and pertinent continuous improvement projects, to positively impact the H&S culture at plants/quarries/S&T facilities with focal initiatives and programs;

• Develops or optimizes the means and the implementation plans to drive compliance and cultural continuous improvements on health and safety targeting an injury-free workplace; in case of any reportable accident / incident, conducts or peer reviews the investigation and root cause analysis, and make close loop follow-up of the improvement action plans with the sites;

• Animates the regional H&S community with clear rituals and routines; build and develop the network with dynamic engagement, high standard of training and communication; shares and replicates the best practices into the shop floors;

• Organizes the BA cross-review programs in the region, contributes to the BA initiatives by supporting other regions on specific tasks or projects; and participates the Group H&S-related auditing program or other cross-functional team per nomination by the BA industrial management;

• Promote, share and replicate good/best practices crossing the operations to positively impact the operations to embrace new ideas and speed up the learning for consistently delivering high standard of performance on H&S;

• Support the dialogues and meetings with regular update of H&S information to the workers’ council of pertinent legal entities in France and collaborate the improvement of pertinent wellbeing and health programs in partnership with human resources team;

• Liaisons with both internal and external stakeholders as a good ambassador, such as the internal working groups, work councils in specific entities, industrial associations, authorities, etc.; facilitates pertinent communication and collaborative initiatives on H&S and corporate social responsibilities;

• Supervises one direct team member; be a role model on EHS, influence, engagement, diversity and collaboration.

Position Type

Full time

and

Permanent

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