About Veolia
Veolia Group aims to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Present on five continents with nearly 213,000 employees, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical solutions for the management of water, waste and energy that are contributing to a radical turnaround of the current situation. Through its three complementary activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, to preserve available resources and to renew them.
In 2022, the Veolia group provided 111 million inhabitants with drinking water and 97 million with sanitation, produced nearly 44 million megawatt hours and recovered 61 million tonnes of waste.
About Veolia Singapore
At Veolia Singapore, we're more than the world’s leading provider of environmental solutions - we’re dedicated to customized, cost-effective solutions that reflect best practices, environmental protection and a better quality of life.
We help customers in the industrial, commercial and governmental sectors safely manage, treat, recycle and dispose of hazardous and regulated wastes. Our industry leading team is equipped with unmatched knowledge, experience and technology in order to provide value-added services that protect people and the environment.
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the environment and promoting ecological transformation? Come, join us and embark on a rewarding career with Veolia Singapore!
Role overview
The QEHS Manager’s role is to lead the QEHS department whose purposes are to roll out the health & safety policy and programs of the company, to ensure a reliable environmental reporting (including CO2 and energy) and the compliance with Singapore regulations (from a licencing viewpoint), and to guarantee the effectiveness of the quality system.
Environment and health & safety being the fundamentals of both Veolia and hazardous waste management, the QEHS Manager, together with his team, has a direct impact on the activity, which stretches from the HW treatment operations (on Tuas site) to HW collection at customer’s sites, assisting in business development.
The QEHS Manager is part of the Management Team of the Hazardous Waste business of Veolia in Singapore and reports to the General Manager. The QEHS Manager interacts actively and transversely with the Veolia Group OHS and other functions relevant to environment, health & safety and quality, is involved in the QEHS community, oversees the reporting, guidelines and procedures implementation, etc.
Job Description:
- Manage the QEHS department (including its budget), setting up the objectives of the team members, defining and rolling out the QEHS action plan, monitoring the QEHS KPIs
- Responsible for the compliance with the Singapore regulations including terms of licenses to operate
- Responsible for providing the necessary information in view of the Veolia EHS reporting
- Take part of the QEHS Veolia community, communicating and implementing Veolia Group standards within the HW business in Singapore (for instance, organise the Veolia Safety Week within the premises of HW plant)
- Responsible for maintaining the Integrated Management System (IMS) up-to-date and for the ISO certifications by interacting transversely and on a regular basis with the other HODs (including, update of SOPs & RAs, organisation of internal audits, follow up of IMS certification audits and any other related responsibility)
- Build a genuine relationship with the HODs in order to deploy in an effective way the safety policy of the company (including but not limited to the following: safety visits, incident reporting & root cause analysis, incident actions tracking, development of BBSO, identification of risks and particularly of High Potential situations)
- Develop a multifaceted and centralised environmental reporting, including CO2 and energy topics with the support of engineering team
- Responsible, together with the Fire Safety Manager (FSM) who is a member of the QEHS department, for the effective deployment of the Emergency Response Plan: submission and approval of the authorities, developing the emergency scenario, training strategy of the CERT, internal communication
- Responsible for the Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) studies carried out within HW business
- Participate in the WSH committee
- Safety is a core value at Veolia, and a precondition for employment. You are expected to uphold the Veolia Always Safe rules and set an example to all colleagues in your daily work routine
- Ethics and compliance are two areas where our rules and our standards are strictly non-negotiable. You are expected to stick to ethics and compliance rules and standards which ultimately mean doing your job properly and conducting our business like true professionals, whatever our missions and our place in the Group.
Job Requirements:
- Degree in Process Safety / Chemical Engineering / QEHS / Environmental Engineering, WSQ Specialist Diploma in Workplace Safety and Health (SDWSH), or related fields
- Minimum 10 years of experience in chemical, refinery, pharmaceutical, power plant or green business;
- Having demonstrated leadership in conducting the change
- Experience in management, but also in transversal management
- High ethical standards at the workplace;
- Results oriented individual with robust process safety management abilities;
- Able to lead a cross-functional team to achieve departmental goal of lean production and operational excellence
- Have the necessary certifications, qualifications and accreditations to carry out this role effectively.
