Industrial Risk Manager

Electrochem; Georgia; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Saft seeks an Industrial Risk Manager to lead the company’s risk program and critical safety barriers. You will identify, assess, and mitigate major risks, coordinate with departments, and guide safety initiatives across sites. You will act as a technical authority on risk analyses and ensure regulatory alignment.

You will steer process safety activities, train staff, and participate in HSE leadership discussions, driving continuous improvement in safety culture and barrier integrity.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in industrial risk management.
• A thorough understanding of applicable industrial safety regulations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Fluency in English is a must, fluency in French is a plus.
• Experience in the battery industry.
• Experience using risk analysis tools.
• Experience implementing industrial safety programs.
• Experience training employees on industrial safety.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess, and mitigate major risks (fire, explosion, pollution and toxicity) associated with the company's operations.
• Develop and implement an industrial risk management program, including the critical safety barriers.
• Work closely with other departments to ensure safety and regulatory compliance.
• Provide guidance and training on industrial safety to employees.
• Participate in safety audits across Saft sites in the region.
• Coordinate inspections and regulatory communications.
• Ensure methodology consistency with group directives.
• Manage process safety risk analyses and allocate resources.

Skills

Strategic vision

Company spirit

Customer focus

Management & coaching

Teamwork

Business acumen

Sense of communication

Innovation/creativity

Organizational relationships

Maturity & decisiveness

Organizational change management

Adaptability

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent in safety, environmental, or engineering

Job description

This position has an industrial risk management responsibility function of a SEVESO or SEVESO equivalent site attached to the site General Manager, and with a functional link to the Corporate Director of HSE.
Industrial Risk Manager is responsible for the implementation and maintenance of an effective industrial risk management program. They will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with the company's operations. They work closely with other departments in the company to ensure that activities are conducted safely and in compliance with applicable regulations. They are in charge of the integrity management program (safety critical barriers management).

Mission

Industrial Risk management
Identify, assess, and mitigate major risks (fire, explosion, pollution and toxicity) associated with the company's operations
Develop and implement an industrial risk management program, including the critical safety barriers
Work closely with other departments in the company to ensure that activities are conducted safely and in compliance with applicable regulations
Provide guidance and training on industrial safety to employees.
Determine action plans required to manage industrial risks
A member of the site Emergency & Crisis Management team
Participate in safety audits across Saft sites in the region
- Manages the Technological Risks process
- Advises Management in their area of expertise.
- Is a member of HSE’s Leadership Team.
- Represent the Site’s Technology Risk management activities vis-à-vis the Saft and TotalEnergies and authorities (DREAL, Prefecture, EPA, local government agencies, etc.).
- Coordinates inspections, replies and endorses the letters and studies sent in his field (Environment regulation, Group audit, etc.)
- As the site’s reference for technology risk analysis methods, he ensures methodological consistency with the group and business directives.
- Manages process safety risk analyses by ensuring that specialist resources (internal and/or outsourcing) are available and competent. Ensures that the Safety actions of the Priority and Critical Processes with regard to the major accident and/or the maintenance of authorizations are taken into account.
- It develops the methodological skills of its employees and the skills to manage technological risks within the site by organizing the dissemination of best practices and a process safety culture on the platform.
- He is the guarantor of the site safety management system and, together with the relevant HSE department heads, validates the change requests on the Industrial Risk aspect.
- Ensures, with his team, the consistency of the regulatory watch on the Technological Risks aspects.
- It tracks the activity’s budget and validates purchase requests and receipts as part of the Industrial Risk amount.
- It ensures compliance with regulatory deadlines for the delivery of unit hazard studies.
- It proposes the reporting elements to meet the various requirements in its field (regulatory, normative, indicators relevant to the activity, etc.)

Asset integiry Management

- Steering and coordination of the implementation of the Group integrity program within the entity
- Identifies processes that ensure the functionality of safety barriers; ensures that these processes are managed by a guarantor, who is responsible for demonstrating that the barriers under their control are working well
- Supports operational teams to properly manage situations where barriers are not functioning as intended, or gate controls have not been executed as planned.
- Participates in the analysis of integrity incidents and anomalies using appropriate methodology
- Conducts internal audits on the integrity program..
- Periodically organizes a steering committee and sector reviews of the integrity of installations.
- Coordinates the process of mapping major risks (integrity threats and level 1 scenarios). Promotion and awareness of facility integrity in the entity
- Builds a culture of integrity by including management, operational teams and guarantors.
- Conducts internal integrity training

Division HSE Coordination

For all division sites

Follow up site action plan (TRA, REX, machine safety audit, Safety Diag, Saft Guard…)
Management Business Review HSE dashboard
Saft Guard deploiement support/assistance
Industrial Risk support (TRA & integrity plan)
Investigation of accident / industrial incident - REX & expertise

General HSE support

- Part of the Saft HSE community
- Participate to the Saft HSE Monthly meeting
- Support the deploiement of the TRA process and integrity plan of other factories
- Control (audit) and assure the reporting on industrial risk KPI

Academic background

Engineering degree or equivalent in safety, environmental, or engineering

Experience / requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in industrial risk management
• A thorough understanding of applicable industrial safety regulations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Fluency in English is a must, fluency in French is a plus
• Experience in the battery industry
• Experience using risk analysis tools
• Experience implementing industrial safety programs
• Experience training employees on industrial safety

Specific Job requirements

• STRATEGIC VISION
• INNOVATION CHANGE / CREATIVITY
• COMPANY SPIRIT
• BUILD ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
• CUSTOMER FOCUS
• MATURITY & DECISIVENESS
• MANAGEMENT & COACHING ABILITIES
• ADAPTABILITY
• TEAMWORK
• SENSE OF COMMUNICATION
• BUSINESS ACUMEN

SKILLS

STRATEGIC VISION -Provide clear direction and priorities. Clarify roles and responsibilities. See that broad strategies are translated into clear and specific objectives. Align the organisation and resources to strategic priorities. Foster the development of a common vision. Have a global, long-term vision for the business.

COMPANY SPIRIT- Behave in accordance with expressed beliefs and commitments. Maintain high standards of personal integrity. Demonstrate a strong commitment to organisational success.

CUSTOMER FOCUS- Focus effort, resources on delivering creative solutions that meet customers’ needs. Focus effort, resources, people on delivering creative solutions that meet customers’ needs. Work to anticipate customer’ needs and understand how to add value to their business. Seek feedback from customers.

MANAGEMENT & COACHING ABILITIES- Delegate and empower others to fulfil their responsibilities. Assign appropriate resources and remove obstacles. Encourage others to achieve beyond their expectations. Drive issues to conclusions. Set clear and challenging time frames. Use performance measures to track progress. Give specific and constructive feedback. Develop successors and talent pool for key positions. Realistically assess strengths and weaknesses in others. Provide challenging assignments that stimulate people’s development, even outside their own area.

TEAMWORK-Build effective teams committed to organisational goals. Act himself/herself as a team player. Place team success above individual gain. Seek to maximise the interest of the group before « local » interests. Seek to involve or integrate people of different cultures.

BUSINESS ACUMEN-Understand the meaning and implications of key financial or other business performance indicators. Foresee obstacles and opportunities. Stay abreast of technological and market developments.

SENSE OF COMMUNICATION-Promote a free flow of information and communication throughout the organisation. Encourage open expression of ideas and opinions. Listen actively to input and feedback. Help all team members understand the company’s strategy and goals.

INNOVATION CHANGE / CREATIVITY-Support and lead implementation of change. Challenge existing practices. Create an environment that encourages innovation and risk-taking. Generate new perspectives and breakthrough ideas. Pursue new business opportunities.

BUILD ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS- Relate well to colleague. Cultivate an active network of relationships inside and outside the organisation. Bring substantive conflicts and disagreements into the open. Attempt to resolve conflicts collaboratively.

MATURITY & DECISIVENESS- Realistically appraise own strengths and weaknesses. Give opportunities for visibility and credit to others. Accept responsibility for own mistakes. Take sound decisions in a timely manner. Take tough and pragmatic decisions when necessary. Know how to get things done in a complex, multi-cultural organisation. Define issues clearly despite incomplete or ambiguous information. Separate facts from perceptions.

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT-Ability to create (then update) a business case for organisation change. Assess organisation readiness for change. Monitor assumptions, risks, dependencies, costs, return on investment, drawbacks and cultural issues. Effective & continuous communication that informs various stakeholders of the reasons for the change (why?), the benefits of successful implementation (what does it mean for me?) as well as the details of the change (when? where? who is involved? how much will it cost? etc.). Advocate an effective socialization of the expected change, training and/or skills upgrading scheme for the organization. Ability to accelerate the speed of adoption of planned changes from the employees by maintaining a high level of engagement.

ADAPTABILITY-Willing and able to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change. Work constructively under stress and pressure. Show resilience in the face of constraints or adversity. Adapt style and approach to match the needs of different individuals and teams. Adapt own behaviour or style to respect cultural, language or other individual differences.