Global Human Performance Expert - Remote

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Town of Texas, Dallas (WI, TX); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic HSE professional to lead cultural transformation initiatives within a global manufacturing environment. This role involves developing and implementing HSE learning activities, driving organizational change through Human and Organizational Performance principles, and enhancing HSE standards across the company. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and communication skills, with a proven track record in HSE practices. If you are passionate about safety and organizational development, this opportunity offers the chance to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking company.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of global HSE experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• Strong leadership and excellent communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Drives functional cultural transformation initiatives across the company.
• Guides and advises on transformational HSE programs focusing on life-changing injury elimination.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Decision-Making Skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in Safety

Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Development

Tools

ISO-45001

ISO-14001

Job description

Description

Role overview

Culture and leadership

• Develops and implements functional (i.e., HSE) learning and cultural development activities, in alignment with Hitachi Energy’s HSE strategy, including but not limited to the Hitachi Energy’s HSE cultural assessments.
• Drives functional cultural transformation initiatives across Hitachi Energy, in close collaboration with the Business Units, with a hands-on approach that engages shop floor employees and front-line leaders.
• Drives transformation initiatives linked to Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles – learning from successes and failures by instilling an open and transparent reporting environment in HSE.
• Guides, coaches, and advises on transformational HSE programs to focus on a culture of LIFE* (*Life-changing Injury and Fatality Elimination).

Communication and learnings

• Builds functional competence and capacity through innovative HSE cultural assessment solutions to ensure that HSE commitments, standards, processes, and procedures are communicated, implemented, and measured throughout the company value chain.
• Partners and collaborates with the Business Units to drive learning and best practices to fully integrate the HOP principles in HSE.

Digitalization and analytics

• Contributes to Hitachi Energy’s acceleration in its HSE transformation by identifying, assessing, and reporting on global emerging HSE trends related to Human Performance.
• Supports digital innovation initiatives in Human Performance, new trends, and forays to help advance and transform HSE through emerging digital trends.

Operations and risk management

• Contributes to the continual improvement of Hitachi Energy’s HSE Operating System (HSE-OS) standards to support Hitachi Energy’s ambition for world-class HSE performance.
• Supports the implementation of the HSE-OS standards, expectations, and learning mechanisms to improve Hitachi Energy’s HSE performance for frontline operations teams.

Governance and competency

• Benchmarks current HSE processes and culture assessment and improvement mechanisms with internal and external best practices and challenges status quo at all levels.
• Influences key stakeholders to accept new practices and innovative approaches, and ability to communicate and influence senior leadership.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, safety, or organizational development.
• 8+ years of relevant global HSE experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• 3+ years of practical Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) experience implementing the principles of HOP to drive cultural change in an international manufacturing or project environment.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
• Problem-solving and initiative-taking and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills to work in a complex and global organization.
• Ability to prepare clear, accurate, business-oriented, and concise reports, correspondence, and other written materials.
• Global travel up to 50%.
• Capable of working autonomously with remote and global teams and delivering in complex working environments and across multiple time zones (flexible working hours when required).

Preferred

• Experience with industrial and organizational psychology.
• Experience and/or familiarity with ISO-45001 & ISO-14001.
• Ability to work within and support matrixed global leadership and functional teams.