- Professional
- Ufficio in Sunderland
We’re looking for a strategic and detail-oriented EHS Coordinator & Program Lead to drive corporate environmental, health, and safety (EHS) strategy across AESC Europe. This high-impact role will focus on EHS KPI tracking, continuous improvement, compliance, training, and program leadership, ensuring best-in-class environmental and safety practices.
You will play a key leadership role, driving EHS initiatives in the region, and ensuring operational excellence through effective project and program management.
Key Responsibilities
Project Management & Performance Reporting
- Define, track, and monitor success metrics, ensuring clarity on key program objectives.
- Own and facilitate operating rhythms for EHS initiatives, keeping teams on task, target, and timeline.
- Ensure effective cross-functional communication, managing project schedules, budgets, and stakeholder engagement.
- Analyze and report on overall program health, providing detailed insights on KPIs and project effectiveness.
- Keep management informed of key changes, challenges, and areas where additional support is needed.
EHS Strategy & Compliance
- Support with developing, implementing, and drive EHS corporate strategy, ensuring alignment with regulatory and business objectives.
- Facilitate, lead, and measure EHS KPI’s, ensuring continual improvement across global teams.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant legislative requirements, industry best practices, and corporate environmental policies.
- Monitor regulatory compliance through regular audits, inspections, and program tracking.
Program Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- Design and facilitate organisational EHS improvements, helping teams implement change initiatives that drive safety culture.
- Identify EHS best practices, providing lessons learned and recommendations for improvement across departments.
- Develop and maintain policies & procedures on key risk control systems.
- Ensure implementation of corrective and preventive actions from audits and investigations.
Training & Stakeholder Engagement
- Support EHS training programs, ensuring strategic alignment with business needs.
- Support delivery of toolbox talks, engaging employees on key EHS topics and responsibilities.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for coordinating and managing cross-functional EHS programs and projects.
- Support management in engaging employees on health, safety, and environmental matters, fostering a safety-first culture.
Qualifications & Experience
To succeed in this role, you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Business Management, Organizational Development, etc.).
- Experience in program or project management, with a focus on EHS compliance and improvement strategies.
- Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
- Strong expertise in defining program requirements and using data and metrics to track performance and improvements.
- Proven ability to engage with regional and global teams, ensuring alignment with corporate safety objectives.
- Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities.
- Familiarity with process safety, asset integrity, audits, and inspections in hazardous industries.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, project management software, and compliance tracking tools.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP certification or project management expertise in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Master’s Degree or MBA, with a focus on business operations or organizational strategy.
- Experience liaising with regulators and steering EHS regulations at a policy level.
- Health & Safety Management experience, with exposure to upper-tier COMAH regulatory standards.
AESC Benefits
- 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Holiday purchase / sell scheme
- Enhanced life assurance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity / paternity pay
- Dental plan
- Summer and Christmas savings club
- Flexible working *office roles
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pay based appraisal
- Employee referral scheme
- Discounted gym membership
