Director of North Europe HSQE - Global Services
Description
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RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.
Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards.
The position
The purpose of the role is to provide strategic leadership, direction, and oversight of HSQE across the growing RES Services business. A key element of the position is partnering with operational leaders and strategic stakeholders to build a high-performing HSQE framework that is scalable, consistent, and aligned with the business’ growth ambitions.
The post holder is accountable for professional leadership, governance, and coordination of HSQE across a portfolio of Operating & Maintenance (O&M) and Asset Management (AM) services in North Europe and across the relevant countries and legal entities. This includes:
- UK
- Ireland
- Nordics (Sweden, Norway)
- Poland
- Germany
The post holder will work directly with the Global Services HSQE Vice President to ensure that the HSQE performance of RES is market-leading and reflects our ambition for a Zero Harm culture. The post holder will work with both operations and HSQE colleagues to ensure the Business Unit complies with relevant legislation, adheres to company policies, and that RES has a commensurate HSQE management system that delivers continuous improvement and a commercial advantage. The post holder will drive collaboration across the business, ensure coordination of resources, standardise management systems, and organize the HSQE Leadership Team.
Organisational Context
Influence business objectives, decisions, and performance across RES Services North Europe to ensure they are balanced in terms of health, safety, quality, environmental impact, cost, and program.
Proactively collaborate with other senior HSQE roles across Services and Group and contribute to the definition and achievement of HSQE objectives for RES Group.
Ensure country HSQE support function responsibilities for the referenced countries.
Provide timely reporting of incidents, period reports, and updates when and where required.
Contribute to the Group HSQE Annual Review and support and lead on specific Safety Focus Events
Accountabilities
Strategic Focus
- Contribute to and implement a scalable HSQE framework that can grow with the business.
- Ensure HSQE practices are integrated into all business processes to foster a culture of safety and quality.
- Undertake an assessment of significant HSQE risks across the portfolio with a focus on employees, suppliers of services, and sub-contractors, including environmental aspects and impacts.
- Review existing risk control measures including hardware, technologies, systems, and human behaviour. Draft a regional plan to address any gaps or weaknesses.
- Implement the RES Group Standards and provide operational guidance to the business.
Operational Excellence
- Regularly conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential hazards and implement mitigation strategies.
- Establish a continuous improvement program with regular audits, feedback loops, and performance reviews.
- Develop a structured Quality Control and Quality Assurance approach commensurate with the organizational maturity and business objectives.
- Develop a program of annual audits and inspections based on risks and emerging topics.
- Support due diligence and integration of acquisition targets.
Leadership and Collaboration
- Lead and support HSQE with focus on development and impact.
- Foster collaboration between HSQE and other departments for a holistic approach to management.
- Develop an integrated approach to liaison with regulatory and external bodies in each of the primary countries.
- Set up and lead a customer HSQE forum to provide enhanced communication and collaboration on risks across contractual boundaries.
- Coordinate and participate in RES representation on national, international, and industry trade and standards groups related to HSQE to provide RES with competitive advantage from a Thought Leadership perspective.
Communication and Reporting
- Implement a transparent reporting system for incidents and near-misses.
- Engage with stakeholders to ensure their needs and expectations are met.
- Contribute period reports to the Executive, the Safety Leadership Team, and Group where appropriate.
- Implement systems for incident reporting, analysis, and investigation with customers and other stakeholders.
- Maintain access to an effective database of HSQE legislation, regulations, and standards relevant for all areas of RES business activities within region.
- Ensure the effective communication of safety alerts within RES and between RES and external stakeholders.
Innovation and Technology
- Leverage technology to improve HSQE processes, such as data analytics for predictive risk management.
- Incorporate sustainability into HSQE practices to align with global environmental standards and ESG efforts.
Compliance and Standards
- Stay updated with the latest regulations and standards to ensure compliance.
- Standardize HSQE procedures across all regions for consistency and efficiency for region scope.
Culture and Engagement
- Promote a zero-harm culture by recognizing and rewarding safe behaviours.
- Involve employees in HSQE initiatives to increase their commitment and ownership.
- Ensure HSQE expert support and advice on HSQE matters is available to the business, including leading HSQE improvement projects where required.
- Set a personal example for safety leadership and be an exemplar of safety behaviours.
Knowledge
- Understand both Management of Change and Change management models within a fast-paced operating environment
- Knowledge of leadership approaches and cultural benchmarking
- Expert knowledge of general HSQE leadership management, legislation, regulations and standards – up to date with relevant HSQE information and future trends.
- Knowledge (and experience of successful implementation) of ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO 45001 and other relevant standards such as ISO 55001 and the related certification process.
- Knowledge of lean principles and techniques would be advantageous
- Understanding of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) concepts
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate and influence at all levels within the organisation and externally with clients, suppliers, trade bodies, media etc.
- Able to summarise HSQE risks, with commercial context, to support decisions required for project delivery
- Ability to understand engineering concept, QRA, Fault and Event Trees and HazOps.
- Project management skills
- Presentation of information in accurate and clear manner with relevant detail
- Ability to bring parties together and manage conflicting agendas
- Negotiation skills to coordinate support and agree priorities across business units
- Cast the right shadow in terms of: Proactive, team player
Experience
- Extensive experience of leading the HSQE function in a similar organisation in the renewable sector, specifically Wind, Solar and Battery Storage.
- Implemented risk-based maintenance management systems (HSQE & business risk)
- Proven ability to understand Root Cause Analysis and where necessary run a high-profile incident investigation
- Use of ERP type systems to capture, data mine and report incidents
- Safety leadership for HSQE professionals and non-HSQE staff alike
- Practical experience of the development and implementation of the various management systems
- Project management experience would be advantageous
Qualifications
- Recognised safety qualification (minimum NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent) and professional membership of recognised HSQE Institution (CMIOSH, IEMA, IIRSM or equivalent) or equivalent such as American Society of Safety Engineers required.
- Degree or master's degree in occupational safety or relevant
- Holds a valid driving licence
- GWO BST and BTT where appropriate
At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.
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