Sr. Manager, Health, Safety & Environment Management
Alcon · Johor Bahru
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In the Sr. Manager, Health, Safety & Environment Management role, you will oversee multiple projects related to health, safety, and environmental management, ensuring goals are met through self-directed work and effective oversight. You will create and implement comprehensive health, safety and environmental programs to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses, and environmental accidents.
Alcon is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Senior HSE Manager to lead Health, Safety & Environment programs for one of our largest manufacturing sites. This role is responsible for driving a strong safety culture, ensuring regulatory compliance, advancing ESG and sustainability initiatives, and leveraging digital technologies to improve HSE performance across a large workforce.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership & Stewardship - Review and report to site management new or existing regulatory requirements and corporate policies/programs and associated impacts. Review and develop HSE policies in line with legislation.
- Develops systems and tools for site leaders to use to ensure compliance with all pertinent HSE regulations, HSE guidelines, HSE standards, permits, statutes, local ordinances and/or other externally driven requirements.
- Develops and drives incident response procedures and guides leaders in effective implementation of the procedures.
- Develops and drives the risk management program for the site.
- Lead site-wide HSE strategy, compliance, risk management, and environmental programs.
- Drive ESG initiatives, including sustainability, carbon reduction, resource efficiency, and environmental stewardship.
- Champion a proactive safety culture and continuous improvement mindset.
- Utilize data, analytics, and digital tools to enhance decision-making and incident prevention.
- Partner with operations, engineering, facilities, quality, and HR teams to deliver world-class HSE performance.
- Ensures goals/targets are achieved within agreed-upon timelines.
- Ensures that audit-generated action items or agency-generated findings at the site are closed within the agreed-upon timelines and in a manner which prevents recurrence.
- Prepares and submits all reports, as required by external agencies and by Alcon internal data collection processes, in a complete and accurate manner within agreed upon timelines.
- Be a role model and encourage the company’s Values ethos at all levels in the organization.
Key Performance Indicators
- Assigned documents, programs and systems meet externally driven compliance requirement as assessed by the appropriate external agencies during inspection, report reviews, analytical data reviews, or as assessed by 3rd party or internal compliance audits.
- Assigned portions of the Alcon HSE Programs are fully implemented, as assessed by internal and external audits.
- All site HSE indicators or programme goals/targets are achieved within agreed-upon timelines.
- Site Leadership Team, site Customers, Corporate HSE satisfaction with HSE programs and service effectiveness and timeliness.
- All audit-generated action items or agency-generated findings at the site are closed within the agreed-upon timelines and in a manner which prevents recurrence.
- Assigned reports, as required by external agencies and by Alcon internal data collection processes, are completed accurately within agreed upon timelines.
Minimum requirement:
- Fluency in English essential.
- College/university degree in safety management, industrial hygiene, environmental science, occupational health and/or medicine, engineering, or related field.
- At least five years of professional experience related to HSE and two to five years managerial experience.
- 10+ years of HSE leadership experience in a medium-to-large multinational manufacturing environment.
- Preferably from medical device, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries.
- Proven experience managing HSE programs for large employee populations and contractor workforces.
- Demonstrated success in implementing digital HSE solutions, analytics, automation, and technology-enabled risk management.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and change management capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of Malaysian HSE regulations, ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and ESG/sustainability requirements.
Technical Competencies
Knowledge of HSE Regulations/Guidelines
- Able to identify regulatory ambiguity, evaluate recommendations, and implement a course of action after careful consideration of all factors. Able to effectively host an inspection by a regulatory agency and represent Alcon in a professional manner to secure the most positive outcome possible.
Risk Management
- Possesses expert knowledge in at least one discipline, with advanced knowledge in other disciplines within HSE. Able to effectively evaluate multiple techniques and methods to avoid or reduce risk, and able to select the most appropriate action based on factors such as cost/benefit, regulatory framework, and local operating environment.
Compliance Assessment & Auditing
- Able to effectively determine underlying management system deficiencies through interviews, direct observation, and/or recordkeeping reviews.
- Able to effectively respond to audit reports by developing, implementing, and documenting action plans, which result in sustainable process and system improvements.
- Able to facilitate Regulatory or Corporate audits.
Incident Management
- Able to effectively manage the site’s incident response program in compliance with Alcon guidelines.
- Able to perform as a subject matter expert during an incident.
- Able to effectively perform response critiques and root cause analyses to continuously improve programs and reduce risk.
- Able to effectively allocate resources and clearly define roles and responsibilities for subordinate associates in relation to their participation in the program.
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