QEHS Manager

QEHS Manager within Volvo Autonomous Solutions!
This is us, your new colleagues
At Volvo Group we are driving prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions – to shape the world we want to live in. Volvo springs from a genuine humanistic approach and builds upon a history of innovation. We strongly believe that sustainable and efficient transport solutions are essential for any society to prosper. Our solutions improve the everyday life of our customers and for society at large, today and tomorrow. We are committed to making a change, for people by people. The health, safety and wellbeing of people is our main priority. Sustainability including climate change are the challenges of our generation. Our contribution is to offer leading transport and infrastructure solutions enabling societies to prosper in a sustainable way.


Volvo Autonomous Solutions is a new business area within Volvo Group. We accelerate the development, commercialization and sales of autonomous transport solutions. The combination of strong technology expertise and skilled customer solutions creates innovative transport offers never seen before. We are constantly pushing our own skills and ability to drive change in a traditional industry to meet a growing customer demand.


You will be part of the Process, Certification and Documentation team. The cornerstones for our team are teamwork and engagement, having fun together and supporting each other in our daily work. We are responsible for Volvo Autonomous Solutions development processes, the complete product documentation and we also ensure full compliance to all applicable regulations, certificates and standards. In our team, we value the strength given by differences in background, knowledge, age, gender, and nationality.


We are now looking for a great Quality, Environment, Health and Safety (QEHS) manager to establish, develop and drive the QEHS agenda for Volvo Autonomous Solutions.


This is what you will do
You will integrate Quality, Environment, Health and Safety (QEHS) into how we run our business to ensure that management of risk and regulatory compliance are overseen at the highest levels. You establish, develop, implement and manage the overall governing QEHS instruments, business principles, policies and processes and proactively work with stakeholders to define our operating model and implement it. To manage and coordinate enterprise-wide governance related efforts and establish sub-committees and working groups are also part of your mission, and you’re responsible to maintain, revise and develop our management system. Acting as our ISO expert you continuously develop our management system and identify weaknesses and gaps in our current processes where you address and support the process owners in their improvement activities.


Your will work cross-functionally with stakeholders across the whole Volvo Autonomous Solutions organization as well as with relevant stakeholders within other parts of the Volvo Group in order to jointly develop and maintain strategic plans and manage activities to minimize liability and/or exposure to the company for quality, environmental, health and safety issues. Together with your network you are also expected to monitor current and future applicable regulatory requirements, perform regulatory impact evaluations and implementation planning, while at the same time, ensuring operational management is informed of all potential impacts.


We are currently introducing new development tools and defining the way we want to run our business, where you will play a key role. Being an entity within the Volvo Group provides us with a solid foundation to stand on when it comes to Quality, Environment, Health and Safety, which we build upon in our context and services.


Who are you? Are we a perfect match?
We believe that you have experience from working in complex and global organizations. To be successful in this position, you also need knowledge in change management and transformation projects as well as experience in building and establishing QEHS management systems. Previous work with QEHS in general is beneficial.


Your outstanding communication and collaboration skills enable you to build strong and stable relationships across cultural boarders based on honesty and trust. You are driven, proactive and result oriented and you take great pride in delivering high quality in a timely manner. And naturally, safety is always your number one priority.


We believe you are a person with great people skills, who enjoys developing teams and yourself, as well as interacting with different stakeholders. You have a positive mind-set and can-do attitude. Since an important part of this position is to establish and maintain a close collaboration with different stakeholders across the whole organization, it is crucial that you enjoy collaborating with others. As a person, you are solution-oriented and enjoy using your structured approach and analytical side. You are also open to work in a completely new context where we together are the motivators to make the future of automated transport solutions happen.


Other important qualifications for the position:
M.Sc. degree within a relevant engineering area.
Experience from working with implementation and continuous improvement within the field of quality, environment, health and safety from industry or a production site.
Knowledge in proactive safety work for example CE marking and risk assessments.
Knowledge in and working experience from environmental legislation, working environmental law and ISO certification.
Fluency in English, both written and spoken.



What can we offer?
You get an opportunity to work together with highly skilled and supportive colleagues in an exciting, global environment that provides opportunities to develop both professionally and personally. Our daily work is performed in an international environment allowing interaction with highly committed colleagues from different cultures. We trust each other and act as a team, stay close to the product and provide opportunities for professional and personal growth. This is where you fit right in!


We look forward to receiving your application!


If you have any questions, please get in touch:
Sead Canovic, Global Technology Manager for Process, Certification and Documentation,
Phone +46 76 5536482


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