Global Head of EHS Governance (f/m/d)

Take on global responsibility for Environment, Health and Safety and drive our EHS strategy worldwide. At Innomotics, you will have the opportunity to influence standards across regions andproduction plants.

We are looking for an experienced leader who combines strategic vision with hands-on execution and inspires teams towards excellence in safety and sustainability.

Your Responsibilities:

Strategic leadership:

• Developing and executing the global EHS strategy, ensuring it aligns with the company's overall goals and values.
• Advising senior leadership on environmental protection, health and safety trends, risks and opportunities, regulatory compliance requirements.
• Defines and develops the EHS targets, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with global and Division EHS strategies.
• Advocates for and promotes the Innomotics Zero Harm safety culture that protects the wellbeing of employees, subcontractors, and customers.
• Coordination and facilitation of EHS governance activities in collaboration with the Division EHS heads for Systems and Solutions, Customer Services, Low Voltage and production factories.
• Ensure and promote a global harmonization of corporate standards and guidelines across all Innomotics operations worldwide.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define, develop and drive EHS programs and initiatives.
• Prepare departmental forecasting and budget tracking.

Drive and lead Zero Harm Culture:

• Design and roll out Zero Harm Culture initiatives, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements in our key locations (Americas, Germany, Czech Republic and China).
• Working in close alignment with the Division EHS heads to lead comprehensive risk assessments and mitigation measures across all operational high risk activities.
• Promote and implement the Environment, Health and Safety Essentials across all business units.
• Implement strong health and safety initiatives across our Factories, predominantly in Germany and Czech Republic.

Compliance and risk management:

• Conduct global EHS governance assessments ensuring standardisation of the global Innomotics EHS Management system and EHS Framework.
• Working with the Quality Management department, oversee the ISO Certification for ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 50001.
• Drive incident investigations from HQ, root cause analysis, and preventative measures to ensure no future reoccurrence.
• Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams to address health and safety issues and emergencies, ensuring compliance with regulations worldwide.
• Actively maintain the governance and oversight of the organisational product stewardship initiatives to ensure product related environmental protection, working in close collaboration with the Divisions and other relevant stakeholders.
• Coordinate with our German heads of factories to implementation proactive measures and roadmap to achieve zero harm.

What You Will Bring:

• 10+ years of experience in EHS roles, ideally in production and manufacturing.
• A strong safety leadership mindset.
• Proven leadership in building and executing EHS strategies across multiple locations and operational units.
• Strong international experience, preferably in Europe, Americas and China.
• Expert organization and influence across functional and operational departments.
• Experience with high-risk operations in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success in developing and implementing standardized processes and systems across organizations.
• Experience and understanding of local German regulatory OHS regulations and standards.
• Fluent in German and English is a plus.
• Experience participating in or leading incident investigations such as Serious Incidents and Fatality (SIF) analysis.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and proven leadership in working with cross-functional and global teams.
• Demonstrated experience working on cross-functional teams and leading EHS targets and objectives.
• Willingness to travel.

We Offer You:

• Flexibility: trustful environment with an inclusive and flexible way of working driven by results; hybrid and remote working enabled by innovative tools and devices, personal computer and smartphone.
• Broad range of wellbeing offerings.
• Responsibility and the opportunity to influence and change.
• Daily use of English or German language.
• Never stop growing: plenty opportunities for continuous and individual learning journeys.
• An inclusive team culture where you can be yourself.