Regional EHS Manager

JLL; George Town; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL is seeking a Regional EHS Manager to lead environmental health and safety initiatives across the APAC region from Bayan Lepas, Malaysia. You will drive regional programs, audits, KPI monitoring and risk mitigation while mentoring site EHS teams and coordinating with client accounts.

Applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree with 7–10 years in EHS, international experience, and strong leadership skills to influence across the organization and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of EHS risk and mitigation aligned with company values.
• Proven experience in EHS with strong technical acumen.
• Experience handling complex/regulatory EHS issues and stakeholder engagement.
• Influence across organizational boundaries and drive EHS culture improvement.
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001 and related systems.

Responsibilities

• Build regional talent in EHS discipline and mentor site staff.
• Implement global EHS programs, policies and procedures.
• Measure, report and improve EHS initiatives at client sites.
• Support M&A activities with EHS due diligence and guidance.
• Coordinate internal communication and escalation on EHS risks.

Skills

EHS leadership

Regulatory knowledge

ISO 14001 familiarity

MS Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

MS Office

Job description

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.

Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

The Regional EHS Manager is an operational role reporting to the APAC Regional Account Lead, supporting the global EHS strategy, initiatives and compliance oversight for the account. Responsible to manage, plan and implement regional level environmental health and safety programs and systems to assure due diligence of regulatory and internal expectations.

This role is responsible for the development and performance of some global programs and systems, support for global and regional EHS including KPI monitoring, trending and reporting; best practice proliferation, cost reduction, EHS programs and audits.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Development

• Build regional talent in EHS discipline
• Assist in recruiting and development of site EHS experts, as needed.
• Identify individual and team strengths and development needs on a regular, ongoing basis.
• Ensure effective performance measurement techniques to assess direct report performance
• Identify and develop succession plan
• Coach and mentor staff to deliver on time excellence to every internal and external customer

Communication

• Ensure regular and effective communication with direct staff as well as site and client EHS professionals.
• Responsible for reports to Account Director and Regional Account Lead. Both rapid responses to risk when requested and the performance of EHS programs and initiatives.

Operational Deliverables

• Implement global EHS programs, policies, procedures
• Represent JLL global EHS strategy at client’s sites and drive integration and accountability as critical component of business success
• Measure and report EHS initiatives and activities
• Identify and mitigate internal risk, anticipate new risks
• Assist in establishing technical leadership, adopting the standards and technologies that enable best-in-class working environment related to EHS
• Support sites by performing EHS Audits – mentoring site EHS resources in the mitigation of compliance gaps and general EHS risk.
• Provide technical guidance for M&A activities and oversight to projects requiring external EHS consulting services (MSA).

Cost Management

• Identify creative ways to implement corrective actions in cost effective manner.
• Utilize tools to track changes and identify cost impact and cost avoidance and provide forecasted expenses when needed.

Internal working relationships

• Operate across organizational boundaries driving the company’s EHS policy, strategy and goal implementation with limited direct authority over business leaders who must be influenced
• Work with account team and EHS leadership to communicate, influence and build consensus among other senior leadership across the company to advance EHS policies and programs
• Regularly update account leadership team on EHS performance of responsible sites
• Build trusting internal relationships as a central point of contact and expert in EHS decision-making regarding issues affecting company
• Motivate and engage line level employees
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

• Knowledge of EHS risk, assess to drive actions supporting core values regarding mitigation and prevention related to the health and safety of employees and the environmental impact of client’s operations.
• Extremely adept in technical aspects of EHS, proven experience in EHS field.
• Experience dealing with complex and sensitive issues related to EHS
• Emotional, political and business acumen
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and influence EHS culture
• High level of appreciation for and ability to conceptualize EHS culture
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001 Standard and system
• Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and e-mail skills required.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree
• Seven (7) to ten (10) years experience in EHS field, preferably in a global/international, electronic-manufacturing company
• Previous international / global experience a plus
• 5 years experience in leadership/management/supervisory role
• Industry consortium and stakeholder engagement (e.g. government) acumen
• Or an equivalent combination of education, experience and / or training.

JLL is committed to providing a safe, healthy, and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from qualified candidates of all backgrounds.

Location:

On-site -Bayan Lepas, Malaysia

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