Process Safety Excellence Manager

About this position

The Process Safety Excellence Manager plays a critical global role in strengthening and standardizing process safety performance across all Adhesives sites. In this position, you will act as a key subject matter expert, responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating process safety risks across approximately 150 manufacturing locations worldwide.

What you’ll do

• Identify, analyze, and evaluate process safety risks across all regions and sites.
• Lead process safety audits of approximately 150 Adhesives sites globally, aimed at gap closure by providing subject matter expertise and guidance.
• Govern action closure from all audits and events to drive continuous improvements in process safety.
• Run applicability assessments for events across sites when needed, including accountability for action closure.
• Improve capability building and maturity in process safety across Adhesives by identifying functional training and development needs per site and delivering them.
• Collaborate closely with multiple internal stakeholders.
• Support the ambition of achieving zero process safety incidents.

Key stakeholders

Regional Process Safety Managers Network, Process Engineers, Project Management, Head SHEQ Managers (including Strategy), Site and Production Managers, Regional Cluster Managers

What makes you a good fit

• Bachelor’s degree in Process Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in process engineering or process safety
• Process Engineering and Process Safety Management expertise
• Strong collaboration, communication, and teamwork skills
• Automation and digitalization mindset with entrepreneurial thinking
• Fluency in English; other languages are a plus
• Ability to constructively manage conflicts
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Ability to embrace and drive change

Key performance indicators

• Reduction of process safety events
• Improvement of process safety audit scorecard results
• Reduction of open actions from process safety events, applicability assessments, and audits
• Horizontal deployment and effectiveness of process safety standards

Some perks of joining Henkel

• Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
• Diverse national and international growth opportunities
• Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
• Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
• Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
• Pension Fund
• Disability Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Canteen