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location:	Melbourne

BASIC FUNCTION:

The EHS Manager at the Signcraft Group entails National responsibility for the performance of the group in terms of both safety and quality management.

The EHS Manager facilitates the establishment of policy and procedure in both disciplines of quality and safety, implements, monitors, reviews and upgrades as required to ensure total compliance.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

A.  Quality : Assesses existing policies and procedures and upgrades as required to establish a current, effective and manageable quality system in accordance with ISO9001.

B.  Quality : Implements agreed policies and procedures nationally and in conjunction with production managers and interstate colleagues ensures commitments and compliance of all staff.  This will entail some interstate travel.

C.  Quality : Reviews all policy and procedure to ensure effective, achievable and practical outcomes. Revises and upgrades process and procedure as required to attain improved business performance through zero/minimal instances of quality non-conformance.

D.  Quality : Educates all colleagues on the quality system, its benefits and workings to ensure the across the board understanding.

E.  Quality : Focuses upon the instances of non-conformance to establish appropriate corrective action to ensure zero prospect of re-occurrence.

F.  Safety : Oversees and maintains the accredited AS4801 management system in both the local and interstate plants.

G.  Safety : Provides considered input and opinion as to the most suitable and resource effective options and methods in the context of safety and quality for each client task.

H.  Maintains a thorough understanding and a suitable level of control over allocated quality and safety projects.

I.  Interfaces effectively with the production team, project team, management teams and administration – actively problem solving and consulting on quality and safety issues.

J.  Retains focus on resource cost and usage, minimizing risks and assisting all projects returning acceptable levels of margin to the organization.

K.  Attends clients' sites as and if required to assess safety/quality needs.  Establishes client/site requirements, issues and obstacles.

L.  Balances time effectively between the quality function and safety function of the group.

M.  Attends regular project/production meetings as required, adding to and providing quality and safety feedback to production, installation, project and management team members.

REPORTING STRUCTURE:

The EHS Manager reports to the National Operations Manager located in Melbourne.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

A:  Planning and Organizational Skills.

The EHS Manager is a specialised professional who demonstrates exemplary planning and organizational skills and is capable of managing multiple tasks at once.

Demonstrated Behaviors:

·      Adopts a calm and considered approach to all tasks.

·      Is a team player, aware of and committed to organizational and team targets.

·      Establishes and maintains effective systems the measure of safety and quality performance.

·      Consults affected parties before making commitments on behalf of the business.

·      Demonstrates an ability to plan and organize multiple tasks and commitments without difficulty.

·      Is conscious of the need for time frames at all organisational levels to ensure task success and manages accordingly.

·      Employs a multiple management style ad is capable of planning for the short medium and long term concurrently.

Managerial Capabilities.

The EHS Manager impacts the culture within the Signcraft Group team.  Leadership and the personal demonstration of the highest levels of professionalism, attendance, punctuality and presentation are imperative to ensure role models are established for clients to observe and others to emulate and follow.

B: Demonstrated Behaviors.

·      Professionally manages the relationship and understanding between the Signcraft Group resource base and its quality/safety systems.

·      Identifies short, medium and long term objectives and manages appropriately and effectively to ensure all are attained.

·      Displays calm, considered and timely decision making.

·      Is insightful and visionary, anticipating issues and managing for acceptable outcomes at all times.

·      Is appreciative of the different types of clients, managers and colleagues and therefore is flexible and adaptive in appropriate management styles.

·      Demonstrates sensitivity and alertness to issues/problems in servicing the needs of clients, colleagues and managers with an emphasis on early detection and rectification.

·      Has an appreciation of the limits of his/her authority and demonstrates a willingness to consult senior management for direction where appropriate.

·      Remains conscious at all times of the financial health of the organization and the impact of decision and actions upon the financial performance of the business.

C: Communication Skills.

Quality communication in multiple directions in both written and verbal forms is essential within the management function of The Signcraft Group.  The EHS Manager must demonstrate effective and efficient communication skills to critical recipients including :

- All levels of the manufacturing and installation process, locally and interstate

- Clients at multiple levels – local, national and international

- The project management team, both local and interstate

- The business development team

- Senior managers and The Signcraft Group

Demonstrated Behaviors:

·      Demonstrates a flexible style, written and verbal, to accommodate people at all levels, internally and externally

·      Is sensitive to the timeliness of communication and acts appropriately

·      Carefully interprets needs/problems/difficulties to ensure rapid and effective solutions or resolutions

·      Considers The Signcraft Group's management teams' need to know about all quality and safety matters, especially problems or difficulties and communicates accordingly.

·      Is aware of the importance of the maintenance of the AS4801 certification.

D.        KPI's

The Key Performance Indicators applicable for the measurement of effectiveness of the EHS Manager revolve around core business performance and are in part published in the Marketing Plan in the form of revenue targets, market share growth and profit levels.  Others reflect minimum standards of general performance and are summarized as follows :

·      Company Earnings before Taxes as measured against Group Sales.

·      Adherence to company procedures relating to reporting, QA, OH&S, Vantage and the defined cultural imperatives.

·      Level of interactivity and successful cohesion between the OHS&E and Quality Officer, the project management function, production facilities locally and interstate and the senior management group.

·      Successful balancing time between the quality function and safety function.

·      Demonstration of effective and timely communication at all times.

·      Adherence to the defined cultural goals of the Company.

E.             REVIEW AND FEEDBACK.

The EHS Manager is assessed, reviewed against Key Performance Indicators and provided opportunity for feedback on a 12 monthly basis, unless informed otherwise. Nominally the review process is undertaken in the period of June / July of any given year.

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