Job opportunity
Director QHSE
GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.
Job information
Reference Number
JR-0030943
Job function
QHSE
Position type
Full time
Site
Beekakker 11, 5761 EN Bakel
Your responsibilities and tasks:
As Director QHSE you drive, implement and improve the Quality, Health, Safety & Environmental strategy, policy and standards in cooperation with all in- and external stakeholders. You lead the Bakel organization towards excellence in Quality, Health, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability.
Tasks:
Builds and develops the team to a high-performance team with a high professional level, driving continuous improvements and learning.
Manages improves the Safety and Quality-oriented organization.
Ensures the establishment of a Quality &HSE management system in accordance with the requirements (legal, industry standards, customers, GEA internal).
Coordinates the integral and continuous process improvement of the Quality & HSE management system.
Coordinates and manages internal and external audits including the pro-active reporting and follow-up of these audits to assure that the organization and its processes do satisfy the requirements.
Initiates, defines and implements operational quality management processes and projects, to assure the quality performance of the organization (e.g. procedures, FMEA, control plan, inspections, traceability, corrective/preventive actions, monitoring of measurement / test equipment).
Defines KPIs, sets challenging targets and manages towards results.
Ensures cost of poor Quality reduces significantly across the organization (E2E).
Functional performance reporting into the Head of QHSE within the Food and Healthcare Technologies Division.
Your profile and qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or master’s, supplemented with relevant QHSE and Operational Excellence training.
Relevant work experience in a QHSE managerial role in an industrial engineering/production environment.
ISO 9001: 2015 knowledge and certification as internal auditor.
Proven knowledge and application of 8Ds, Lean methodologies quality tools.
Ability to collect/analyze data and use of with MS Excel/Access/ or Minitab.
Used to work under pressure with time and resources constraint.
Passion for Quality and for details.
Enthusiastic, positive and pro-active approach.
Six sigma green belt/black belt would be preferable.
Fluent English, second foreign language would be a plus.
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We’re a global industrial engineering company and one of the world’s largest systems suppliers for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors, and many others. GEA offers exciting and diverse training and career opportunities around the world.
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GEA’s heritage stretches back more than 140 years. Today, we operate in resilient customer industries with a dedicated workforce of more than 18,000 employees and conduct business with more than 150 countries.
