EH&S Regional Leader, APAC

Essential Functions

Improve EH&S Performance

• The Regional EH&S Leader evaluates performance, prioritizes opportunities and effectively implements solutions to continuously improve EHS&S performance in the region.  The Leader works closely with facility leaders to provide expertise, tools, and training to enable facility leaders to successfully accomplish EH&S objectives. The EH&S Leader identifies current industry best practices and appropriately implements improvements in our corporate EH&S management system.

Enforce EH&S Operating Discipline

• The regional EH&S leader advises, coaches, enables and enforces the use of our EH&S management system. The management system includes: EH&S policies; standards; work processes; procedures; rules; tools; applications; good practices; etc. The EH&S regional leader is familiar with all aspects of the management system, and fluent in many areas of EH&S expertise.
• Responsible Care® Focal Point for Region – ensure operational obligations for membership are met

Coach and Lead Site/ Regional EH&S roles

• The regional EH&S leader trains, develops, and coaches site RCL’s (responsible care leaders); plant EH&S coordinators; and site/production leaders on EH&S responsibilities. The regional EH&S leader provides needed resources and expertise to site EH&S staff.  The regional EH&S leader manages regional EH&S specialist staff to support EH&S compliance in the region

Maintain EH&S compliance

• The EH&S regional leader reviews, improves, endorses, redirects, and otherwise assists in the EH&S compliance plan and EH&S variance work processes. The regional EH&S leader serves on EH&S integrated audit teams, and reviews all EH&S integrated audits.
• The EH&S Leader implements effective management system solutions to address common audit gaps.
• The EH&S regional leader prepares plant personnel for regulatory inspections and supports follow-up actions to findings in collaboration with legal counsel.
• The EH&S regional leaders supports facilities in their compliance to new / changing regulatory requirements.

Facilitate Regional EH&S networks

• The EH&S regional leader facilitates a regional network of EH&S personnel. The EH&S regional leader provides EH&S orientation and training for people new in their EH&S roles, (includes responsible care leaders EH&S coordinators, and site/production leaders). The EH&S regional leader manages, coordinates, and implements EH&S improvements in the region. The EH&S regional leader coordinates Safety on Purpose program implementation, refresher training, and regional connections meetings.

Facilitate investigations

• The regional EH&S leader facilitates and/or participates in root cause investigations of EH&S incidents, and prepares clear company wide communication of the results for learning across the company. The regional EH&S leader ensure investigations are thorough and identify a management system cause and appropriate corrective and preventive actions.