Head, QESH Americas

Sulzer; Humble (TX); Sur place; USD 150 000 - 230 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

PTO and 12 company-paid holidays

401K plan with a 6% match

Comprehensive health plan including Rx

Health savings account matching

Wellness program

Employee Assistance Program

Paid paternal leave

Gym reimbursement

Résumé du poste

Sulzer is seeking a Head of QESH for the Americas to lead Quality, Environment, Safety, and Health initiatives across the region. You will drive a culture of safety and quality, aligning with Sulzer standards and customer requirements while overseeing multiple sites and operations.

The role requires extensive experience in QESH leadership, ISO management systems, and incident investigations, with a focus on continuous improvement and risk management across manufacturing, service, and project

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Quality, Safety, Environmental, Health, or Operational Excellence leadership.
• Minimum 5 years leading multi-site QESH organizations.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, field service, and industrial operations.
• Strong knowledge of ISO standards and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with incident investigations and CAPA processes.

Responsabilités

• Lead QESH strategy across MTCS Americas and establish KPIs.
• Maintain ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 integrated management systems.
• Oversee internal audits, management reviews, and external certification audits.
• Drive safety, quality, environmental stewardship and risk management.
• Develop training programs for QESH.
• Collaborate with Operations, Service, Sales, and HR to drive operational excellence.
• Lead NCR, CAPA, Lessons Learned programs.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and customer requirements.

Connaissances

QESH leadership

ISO 9001 knowledge

ISO 14001 knowledge

ISO 45001 knowledge

OSHA knowledge

Incident investigations

Continuous improvement

Multi-site leadership

Risk management

Formation

Bachelor degree in Engineering or related discipline

Description du poste

Sulzer is a leading engineering company with a proud heritage of innovation. Join our global team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.

About the role

The Head, QESH Americas is responsible for leading Quality, Environment, Safety, and Health (QESH) activities across the Americas region, ensuring compliance with Sulzer standards, customer requirements, regulatory obligations, and applicable management system certifications. The role provides strategic and functional leadership to manufacturing sites, service operations, project execution activities, and office locations while driving a culture of safety, quality excellence, environmental stewardship, risk management, and continuous improvement.

Essential Functions

• Lead the QESH strategy, objectives, and performance management processes across MTCS Americas.
• Develop and promote a culture where safety is the highest operational priority and quality is embedded in all activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, corporate, MTCS and ChemTech policies, and customer requirements across all Americas locations.
• Maintain and continuously improve integrated management systems including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001.
• Lead internal audit programs, management reviews, and external certification audits.
• Oversee incident investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive actions.
• Develop and maintain safety, quality, environmental, and compliance training programs.
• Support manufacturing, service operations, and project teams in identifying and mitigating operational risks.
• Establish and monitor regional QESH KPIs, dashboards, and management review processes.
• Produce monthly ESH MIS and QESH reports as necessary.
• Lead environmental compliance activities, sustainability initiatives, and reporting requirements.
• Support field service safety programs, contractor management processes, and customer site compliance requirements.
• Ensure TFS operations are compliant with Sulzer, ChemTech and MTCS ESH requirements.
• Partner with Operations, Service Operations, APT, Sales, and HR to drive operational excellence.
• Lead the regional NCR, CAPA, and Lessons Learned processes across manufacturing, service, and project execution activities.
• Establish and maintain a structured Lessons Learned program for Quality, Environment, Safety, and Health events, audit findings, customer complaints, and project execution issues.
• Ensure lessons learned are communicated, tracked, and incorporated into standards, procedures, training, and best practices across MTCS Americas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Safety, Environmental Sciences, Industrial Management, Quality Management, or related discipline required.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in Quality, Safety, Environmental, Health, or Operational Excellence leadership roles.
• Minimum 5 years leading multi-site QESH organizations.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, field service, and industrial operations environments.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, OSHA requirements, incident investigations, and continuous improvement methodologies.

Success Measures

• Major Accident Frequency Rate, Accident Severity Rate and Toal Accident Rate performance is below corporate targets
• Leading Indicator Reporting: Including Near Miss reporting, Safety Observations, Safety Walks and Safety Walks With Management are above target.
• Audit performance and compliance
• Corrective action closure effectiveness
• Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
• Customer quality complaints
• ISO certification compliance
• Environmental compliance performance. Environmental Indicators to meet. Corporate Requirements – Waste Recycling >70%. Waste to Landfill <10%.
• Training completion rates
• NCR closure performance
• Recurrence rate of Quality and ESH incidents
• Lessons Learned implementation effectiveness
• CAPA completion rate

What we offer you

What We Offer You

• PTO and 12 company-paid holidays
• 401K plan with a 6% match
• Comprehensive health plan including medical, dental, vision, Life, short-term & long-term disability
• Health savings account matching
• Motivating wellness program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid paternal leave
• Gym reimbursement

Sulzer is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in the strength of a diverse workforce and are committed to offering an inclusive work environment.

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