EHS Manager

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  
 

As an EHS Manager, You will direct and support management of all Environmental, Health and Safety functions for a site, in compliance with Givaudan EHS policies and processes, and with all applicable EHS regulations. Responsible for managing risk and driving cultural change to reduce the probability of EHS incidents. Manage and optimize the EHS organisation to deliver added value to the organisation. Promote the EHS culture across the organisation.

Core Responsibilities

• Support and advice site management on all EHS aspects; act as a coach to line managers to ensure that EHS becomes and remains a line responsibility
• Develop and deploy EHS vision aligned with company strategy for the site taking into account both the OPS/EHS Global Strategy/initiatives as well as the local legislation
• Manage compliance with all EHS Regulations
• Responsible for all Site EHS trainings for new and existing employees and contractors
• Deploy behaviour based safety programmes
• Ensure safety and Health programmes are strictly implemented
• Ensure emergency planning is effective
• Responsible for accurately completing and submitting regulatory reports
• Ensure KPI reporting is complete and initiate actions to drive towards the agreed targets
• Track site safety behavioural audits and incidents, analyse trends on audits, incidents and near miss reports and report same to management team
• Lead the employee safety committee to promote safety awareness and improve the overall safety of the site by driving issues identified to closure
• Manage all hazardous and non-hazardous waste activities
• Manage all documentation required
• Maintain good relationships with relevant external stakeholders (authorities/communities/network)
• Act as primary contact for local EHS regulatory agencies
• Act as main point of contact with other department: Regulatory, IT, regional Management Team

Academic Background

• Master degree in chemistry, Engineering, EHS or other related field

Professional Experience

• 5 to 10 years’ experience in the industry and prior experience in an EHS plant
• Appropriate country EHS qualification/certifications

Technical Skills

• Fluent English, local Language essential
• Computer literacy (MS Office)
• Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment, Risk Control
• Root Cause Analysis
• Process Safety Management
• Audit
• H+S Management
• Emergency Management

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.