Job Description
Head of EHS Plant Saalfelden
Posting Start Date:
6/26/26
Main Location:
Saalfelden
Requisition ID:
52932
You may be our new
Head of EHS Plant Saalfelden
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate and provide functional guidance to local EHS team, ensuring alignment with global EHS policies and standards.
- Act as the primary interface to the Global/Regional EHS function, ensuring effective two-way communication and deployment of global initiatives and standards.
- Implement and maintain Health & Safety management, including hazard identification, risk assessments, training events, information sessions, and instruction courses and preventive measures tailored needs for the plant and if relevant for service activities.
- Consolidate and review plant EHS reporting for both, for plant and if relevant service activities, including incidents, near misses, KPIs, internal and external audits/assessments, compliance status, behavioral based observation program and projects.
- Ensure consistent incident reporting and incident management in the plant and if relevant for service operations, including investigation quality, root cause analysis, and follow-up of corrective actions.
- Coordinate regulatory compliance activities, ensuring permits, inspections, and legal requirements are met for plant and if relevant for service organization.
- Roll out and monitor global EHS programs, campaigns, and standards, facilitate best practice sharing and capability building among the plant departments and if relevant with service teams.
- Identify local EHS risks, trends, and systemic issues (including service-related risks such as customer-site work, travel, and contractor management, if relevant) and proactively escalate them.
- Support local emergency preparedness, crisis management, and safety drills, including coordination of response for serious incidents involving plants or field engineers.
- Supporting EHS projects (local new machinery / local machinery modification) regarding EHS, to cover legal and corporate requirements during the design/engineering/construction phase including the pre-startup-safety-review (PSSR)
- Provision of expert consulting services to management on plant related topics such as safety, ISO14001/45001 activities, Fire Protection, SEDEX, GHG emission, Pollution-, Waste-, Water -and Biodiversity-Management
You bring these skills, experience & education
- University degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Master craftsman or a related discipline.
- Legal local required safety specialist exam.
- Formal qualification in occupational health and safety (e.g. NEBOSH, IOSH, Lead Auditor OHS or Environment or equivalent) is a strong advantage.
SIG competencies
We are looking for people who are willing to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances, employees who create a climate where everyone is motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. If you actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged, if you develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals, SIG is the place for you. To deliver better for our customers, our future colleagues build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. Finally, we are looking for colleagues who build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Are you someone who applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals? Are you someone who can create new and better ways for the organization to be successful? If the answer is 'yes', come and join us.
Our promise
SIG is the place for you to build something incredible. We offer competitive compensation and an opportunity to partially work from home. If you join us, you will be part of a globally successful international company, which is leading its industry in sustainability, technology, and more. We think of ourselves as the career launchpad - a place to develop yourself fast with real work, real experience, real opportunities to build skills. You will be part of a highly motivated and dynamic team, you will have personal development opportunities, trainings and coaching opportunities from senior team members. If you show skill and willingness to learn, we'll back you all the way.
About SIG
SIG is a leading provider of packaging systems and solutions for better. We work in partnership with our customers to bring food products to consumers around the world in a safe, sustainable, and affordable way. We are the only packaging system supplier covering carton, pouch, and bag-in-box. Our versatile technology and product innovation capacity enable us to deliver better for customers, for consumers, and for the world. Sustainability guides us, technology empowers us, but it's the passion and drive of our people that truly enable us to deliver better. Founded in 1853, SIG is headquartered in Neuhausen, Switzerland, and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange.
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Contact
SIG Talent Acquisition Team
Phone: +49 246 279 1436
Email: recruiting@sig.biz
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Head of EHS Plant Saalfelden