Quality/EHS Manager

Fiskars Group; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fiskars Group is seeking a Manager for Quality, Environment, Health, & Safety at their Billnäs factory. This role involves leading QEHS initiatives, ensuring compliance with regulations, and developing a safety culture. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in QEHS, project management skills, and fluency in Finnish and English.

Benefits

Occupational health care

Health fund

Bicycle benefit

Gym access at the plant

Product discounts

Participation in the MyFiskars share savings program

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in QEHS.
• Experience in an industrial environment, engineering, or manufacturing is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic goals for QEHS aligned with factory objectives.
• Set and monitor KPIs for safety culture and compliance.
• Lead safety incident investigations and compliance audits.

Skills

Project management

Process design

Fluency in Finnish

Fluency in English

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field

Job description

At Fiskars Group, we are unified and driven by our common purpose: pioneering design to make the everyday extraordinary. Join our team and seize the extraordinary opportunity to influence the everyday!

At Fiskars’ Billnäs factory in Western Uusimaa, we produce Fiskars’ well-known scissors, axes, snow tools, and forged products with around 200 employees. We are looking for a Manager, Quality, Environment, Health, & Safety (QEHS), who will provide leadership for implementing and developing QEHS standards and procedures. This role will partner with the Billnäs factory leadership on compliance, project management, reporting, and related QEHS management issues.

This position will actively participate in site leadership, focusing on planning, QEHS governance, auditing, management systems, best practice sharing, compliance initiatives, and governmental/regulatory reporting. The primary purpose is to grow the safety culture to achieve world-class QEHS performance and strategically deploy the factory's vision. The goal is to elevate safety and environmental performance to world-class levels.

Main responsibility areas

1. Strategic goals: Develop a strategic framework for QEHS objectives aligned with group-level goals. Define factory action plans with occupational safety and health delegates and ensure their implementation.
2. Metering and follow-up: Set, monitor, and improve the factory safety culture. Establish KPIs for QEHS and actively manage performance to meet these KPIs, including reporting safety and environmental metrics.
3. Compliance: Ensure safety and environmental activities comply with legislative requirements and standards, including ISO and FSC regulations. Conduct ISO audits and represent the factory in QEHS systems.
4. Working environment: Lead investigations of safety incidents, accidents, and issues. Participate in developing factory 5S and lean activities.
5. Cooperation: Collaborate with local team leaders, production, other Fiskars sites, and the group QEHS community.
6. Training: Develop and deliver QEHS training materials. Provide technical guidance on health, safety, and quality issues organization-wide.

Qualifications

We seek a dedicated professional with a strong commitment to QEHS development, capable of improving processes and performance. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field and at least 5 years of relevant experience are required. Experience in an industrial environment, engineering, manufacturing, or technology development is advantageous. Project management and process design skills are relevant. Fluency in Finnish and English, both written and verbal, is essential.

What we offer

An opportunity to work with Finland’s oldest company, known for its rich history and excellent products. You will have a diverse, flexible role with professional development opportunities in a supportive environment. Our salary package is competitive, complemented by employee benefits such as occupational health care, health fund, ePassi, bicycle benefit, gym access at the plant, product discounts, and participation in the MyFiskars share savings program.

For questions, contact:

• Olle Löfgren (interim QEHS manager, KAM Forged products): 21.5. from 14-15, tel. [phone]
• Merja Laitinen (HR Manager): 27.5. from 15-16, tel. [phone]

Apply by June 6th via our career website. We review applications continuously.

Additional benefits

We offer competitive compensation, health and wellness programs, work-life balance support, professional development, an inclusive environment, recognition programs, employee share purchase plans, and product discounts. Benefits may vary by location.

Fiskars Group, listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, owns brands like Fiskars, Georg Jensen, Gerber, Iittala, Moomin Arabia, Royal Copenhagen, Waterford, and Wedgwood. Present in over 100 countries, with nearly 7,000 employees and EUR 1.1 billion in net sales in 2023. Since 1649, we have been pioneering design to make the everyday extraordinary, celebrating our 375th anniversary in 2024. More at fiskarsgroup.com.