Senior EHS Manager, Americas Region

Overview

Company:Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:Facilities & Security Group, Facilities & Security Group > Environment Health & Safety

Job Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

+ Being accountable for EHS performance metrics and implementation of improvement plans

+ Design, develop, implement, execute and maintain all EHS programs, procedures, processes and systems to ensure regional and site-level compliance with EHS laws and regulations, and align with Corporate EHS standards and strategies

+ Perform EHS compliance applicability reviews and EHS risk assessments and implement effective programs to ensure regulatory compliance and protection of employees, and the environment

+ Conduct workplace inspections / assessments at regional sites at various intervals

+ Provide EHS service, solutions, programs, best practices and guidance to functional and operational teams, site operations management and site EHS Representatives to effectively manage compliance assurance and EHS risk mitigation

+ Develop and provide training on company and regulatory technical safety and environmental requirements

+ Support EHS incident investigations to determine and implement root cause corrective actions

+ Oversee EHS corrective and preventative actions; drive actions to closure

+ Create, collect, measure and analyze regional and site EHS metrics and KPI’s to discover trends for continuous improvement or to initiate targeted prevention programs

+ Perform management reviews and report on EHS performance and tactical and strategic improvement planning

+ Manage regulatory agency and external stakeholder EHS activities, including reporting, visits, or inspections

+ Monitor developments, trends, emerging issues, legislation, and regulations related to EHS, and best practice trends in the industry and interpret and incorporate changes/updates to EHS programs

+ Serve as a thought partner and strategic advisor on the EHS Leadership team to shape strategy on critical business and/or program issues

IT Core Competencies

+ Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint) and SharePoint

+ Adapts to technology quickly to complete work objectives; confidently uses new techniques and/or technologies as a routine part of work assignments; has firm grasp of how to use core computer programs

Required Competencies

+ In depth experience in EHS tactical and strategic leadership

+ Exceptional strategic consulting skills balanced with a drive for execution, thinks with an enterprise-wide mindset. Demonstrates strong judgment in decision making and quickly gains trust. Able to consider the best solution/outcome for Qualcomm. Responds with agility in navigating complex business and organizational dynamics

+ Experience establishing metrics, analyzing data and developing dashboards and reporting, including executive reporting

+ Broad experience managing efficient operations, including ensuring effective business process and metrics-driven alignment to achieve goals. Excellent planning and prioritization skills with the ability to multitask and adapt in a dynamic environment

+ Highly effective team player and collaborator. Track record of partnering with and engaging others to realize change. Strong comfort working in a matrix environment, leveraging expertise across functions and building local and global networks

+ Skilled at seeing opportunities from challenges. Track record of being resilient and adaptable in navigating organizational resistance and influencing others to adopt new behaviors and approaches. Visible and dynamic champion for EHS

Additional Competencies

NA

Minimum Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s degree in environmental, health, safety or scientific or related engineering field

+ 10+ years’ experience in EHS, with demonstrated experience in managing EHS programs in a company with global operations

+ 3+ years managing teams

+ 3+ years’ experience in OHSAS18001, ISO14001, ISO45001 or similar accredited EHS management systems

+ Experience prioritizing and managing multiple and technical assignments concurrently

+ Analytical, problem-solver, and project management experience

+ Experience establishing and maintaining cross-functional working relationships

+ Broad communication skills and demonstrated experience in understanding of business value drivers

+ Ability to travel, 25-30%, including international

Preferred Qualifications

+ Advanced degree in environmental, health, safety or scientific or related engineering field

+ Certification as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), or other EHS-related certification/certificate

Physical Requirements

+ May involve occasional work in a cold, hot, high noise, at heights, or wet environment

+ Work may be required outside of the standard 8-hour workday, including weekends

+ Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

+ Must be able to lift, push, pull and carry up to 25 lbs. and remain standing or walking for extended periods in the performance of site inspection and compliance activities

+ Perform tasks requiring bending, stooping, kneeling, standing, and walking significant distances

+ In general, the position requires a combination of sedentary work and walking around observing conditions

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