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Quality & Environment Manager
Locations: London, Den Haag
Time Type: Full-time
Posted On: 10 days ago
Purpose
The Quality & Environmental Manager is responsible for managing and continuously improving quality performance in line with targets and coordinates the management of a unit’s environmental performance, identifying and resolving environmental issues from a holistic perspective.
As Quality & Environmental Manager, you will drive the development, implementation, and follow-up of our processes, methods, and systems to analyze our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to improve our business performance. The Q&E Manager is responsible for identifying local applicable environmental regulations, business development opportunities, and risks while interacting with business lines and functions, ensuring environmental compliance and conformance to business strategies and ISO 14001 Management System.
To enable KONE to build Quality & Environment into our processes and develop a proactive Quality culture and mindset through increased competences, collaboration, communication, and best business practice sharing.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy Deployment
* Promotes and deploys Quality & Environment as part of the KONE Strategy and proactive Quality culture, actively communicating the importance of Quality and engaging the organization.
* Drives the annual quality budget planning and other quality-related target setting in their organization in line with global targets.
Quality Management
* Promotes, with Unit/function management, recognition and conformance to customer and KONE requirements.
* Collaborates with KONE Way process owners, operating model owners, and change managers to ensure the continual improvement and implementation of KONE Way in the area of responsibility.
* Assures that functional and operational leaders and teams analyze, develop, and execute continuous quality improvements based on performance data and proactively gather and analyze other relevant data to identify continuous improvement opportunities in the processes in full chain.
Environmental Management
* Leads and coordinates unit’s improvement activities and development programs related to environmental, climate, or sustainability matters.
* Ensures progress according to the unit budget preparation.
* Collaborates with sourcing, business lines, facility management, and other relevant functions to meet the unit’s long- and short-term environmental goals.
* Ensures environmental legal compliance in the unit together with local sourcing relevant to KONE solutions and operations (e.g., legal requirements coming from EU REACH, RoHS).
* Collaborates with marketing, sales, and Customer Solutions Engineering to ensure relevant customer requirements in KONE solutions and operations are fulfilled and communicated in line with customers’ climate targets and green building requirements (e.g., LEED, BREEAM, local accreditation programs).
* Demonstrates how ownership of quality & environment should be done in KONE, serving as an example for others.
Continual Improvement
* Drives progress and monitors the effectiveness of continuous improvement projects, corrective, and preventative actions logged within the organization, providing direction and support where needed.
* Facilitates and evaluates the implementation and contributes to the development of the Management System (QEHS), monitors its performance, and combines its management with other management systems, such as environment and safety.
* Responsible for planning, execution, and follow-up of audits as a tool for assuring process compliance and identifying areas for process performance and improvement.
* Represents the voice of the customer relevant to climate and environmental targets and green building requirements, using this to build motivation for continuous improvement within the unit.
* Ensures that, in the area of responsibility, the management practices are in place as defined in the Continual Improvement policy.
Skills:
* Experience of working in an international company.
* Good knowledge of Quality tools, methods, and systems.
* Practical knowledge of safety at work.
* Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (minimum).
* Management System processes (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001), quality tools, audit, and certification experience.
* Product/process management experience.
* Change management skills.
At KONE, we focus on building an innovative culture of collaboration where we value each person's contribution. Employee engagement is a key area of interest for us. We encourage participation and sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and daily operations. We practice ethical business and strive to develop a culture of collaboration where colleagues trust and respect each other, and good results are recognized among peers. As an excellent workplace, we proudly offer a wide range of opportunities that facilitate achieving professional and personal goals and enable a healthy, balanced life.
More information can be found at www.kone.com/careers
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