Vice-President, Global Health Safety and Environment

Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is global fully integrated professional services and project management company and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure.

From offices around the world, SNC-Lavalin's employees are proud to build what matters. Our teams provide comprehensive end-to-end project solutions – including capital investment, consulting, design, engineering, construction management, sustaining capital and operations and maintenance – to clients across oil and gas, mining and metallurgy, infrastructure, clean power, nuclear and EDPM (engineering design and project management).

In 2017, SNC-Lavalin acquired Atkins, one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, which has been integrated into our sectors. Atkins is now the Engineering, Design and Project Management sector (EDPM). It operates primarily across UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and US.

Overview

The role reports into the Senior Vice-President, Global Projects Support and is accountable for health, safety and environment (HSE) program execution and compliance globally for SNC-Lavalin.

Job Description:

• In charge of leading the strategy for company-wide leadership and management of the HSE policies, procedures and operational guidance that will enable a culture of workforce behaviors directed towards safety, health, incident and accident prevention, regulatory compliance, environmental management and performance outcomes that engage the connection of the workforce to the Company and its culture.
• Provide expertise and leadership that will engage the Operational leaders in driving the culture of safety and compliance throughout the organization. A culture that keeps our employees safe, protects the loss exposure of the company, and is focused on compliance with applicable government regulations and internal standards and values.
• As part of our Digital transformation, provide functional leadership for ongoing development of mobile applications and develop strategies for leveraging emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence
• Directs all Regional HSE Leads and influences site, region and global business partners to drive prioritization of regulatory compliance, continuous performance improvement, and integration of HSE performance objectives into standard work processes
• Models strong compliance mind set, develops strategies to achieve HSE objectives in alignment with company business goals and values
• Develops new and innovative programs to motivate the workforce to participate and engage in HSE
• Ensures HSE strategies/programs are implemented at a global level
• Develop and implement strategy for streamlining of ISO certifications across the company
• Leads a team of dedicated HSE professionals with responsibility for talent development and mentoring related to technical expertise and leadership capability
• Responsible for ensuring HSE culture engagement efforts are implemented and well-aligned with the business strategies across the regions
• Full understanding of the business strategies in order to conceptualize, recommend and implement HSE business processes that ensure alignment with the corporation strategy.

Requirements:
 

• Bachelors’ degree in health sciences, safety engineering, environmental engineering or related field.

• Minimum of 15 years with at least 5 years in leadership role in multi-national organization
• Must have sound knowledge of global environmental, health and safety regulatory and statutory requirements including ISO certifications
• Good understanding of current technology applications used in HSE and a curiosity and willingness to embrace future technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to further improve HSE performance and to enable the next step change in industry safety
• Exercises vision and sound judgment at both global and local levels. Must be willing to tackle tough issues with tact and diplomacy in a timely fashion.
• Strong leadership, talent management, change execution, and financial management skills. Readily and actively contributes to the success of the global team.
• Ability to act as change agent through interactions with others