Hsse Manager

At VARO Energy we're looking for a HSSE Manager to join our team.

Full-time - Cressier, Switzerland

**About us**:
At VARO, we believe in the power of energy. Energy enables our society to be mobile, comfortable, connected and innovative.

Our conventional energies are either produced at our two manufacturing hubs or purchased at other locations and marketed through our large network of distribution points, retail locations and via delivery services across Europe. This process enables VARO to offer a variety of products such as diesel and gasoline, heating oil, fuel oil and more.

Our sustainable energies business is about creating access to sustainable energies by building new infrastructure and partnerships. We are helping our customers to decarbonize and ultimately reach Net Zero.

We believe that providing high quality energy goes hand in hand with high security and environmental standards. Conducting our business with zero injuries is our top priority. Working according to our best-practices means that we undertake our operations in a way that protects our people, the environment and respects our neighbours.
- The energy industry is changing and we need the right people to grow with us as we rise to the challenge. Our continued success depends on our people, so we make sure that we are creating opportunities for professional development that respond to the aspirations of our employees.**About the job**:

- As HSSE Manager, you will report directly to the HSSE-Operational Excellence Director. Your primary focus will be to improve HSSE and the safety culture within our manufacturing and distribution sites throughout Europe.**Tasks and responsibilities**:

- Perform regular site visits to guide and coach our local HSSE resources and site management to drive improvement of our safety culture and assure compliance with our corporate policies
- Ensure that our HSSE competencies in VARO are monitored following a structured approach, understand the gaps and initiate VARO wide training programs to improve our safety culture, competencies and close the gaps
- Initiate LFI 's (Learnings From Incidents) on HSSE high risk incidents, maintain a database and ensure follow up actions are taken on our different sites and integrate these in our training program
- Maintain and analyse HSSE KPI's (Key Performance Indicators), audit data and LFI's in order to find underlying causes, report on them and takes action to drive continuous improvements
- Identify with the sites the high HSSE risks within our VARO sites, ensure that barriers with the correct strength to mitigate these risks are applied on our sites
- Prepare yearly plans with the sites followed by reports in order to steer the HSSE plans towards new goals and continuous improvement in the context of Operational Excellence
- Ensure HSSE management systems or future OEMS are implemented, audited and integrated in yearly plans
- Keep up to date with HSSE trends and acquire understanding of what is being done worldwide
- Interface with projects to ensure risks are covered from design to start-up and assure local organization handover
- Participate and guide preparation of high risk tasks such as Turnarounds and start-ups and keep a constant on-site presence during these tasks
- Oversee VARO's crisis plan and organize regular crisis trainings to keep up with international standards

**About you**:

- BSc/MSc degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- Vast experience in leading HSSE teams in a production site (oil & gas industry will be considered an asset)- Excellent English language skills (spoken & written)
- Fluency in French, German or Dutch will be considered an Asset**Required skills**:

- Result oriented and "hands-on" approach
- Strong sense of ethics and integrity
- High level of flexibility and adaptability and a good capacity to manage stress
- Excellent analytical skills, curiosity and perseverance in order to find the root causes of potential risks and incidents and resolve them timely
- Outstanding team player

**We offer**:

- A professional and well connected work environment within a young and international team in a fast growing company
- An attractive workplace with great development opportunities
- Indeterminate employment contract
- Advantageous and competitive work conditions and social benefits

Do you want to join our team as our new HSSE Manager? Then we'd love to hear about you