Job Description
Matchtech are supporting the recruitment for a Safety VP to work with a key client in Toronto.
Do you have the following key skills?
- Proven leadership skills - the ability to influence others outside of the team to deliver assurance and improvements
- ‘Big picture’ strategic thinker, able to switch between tactical and strategic agendas.
- Proven stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate large organisations with different interests and promote collaborative working.
- An empathetic candidate with high emotional intelligence, vitality, energy, and ability to create velocity inleading cultural change.
- Exceptional influencing skills and ability to act as a role model and play a wider role in the context of CPG’s executive forum.
Do you have the below skills?
- 20+ years of experience in one of the following: program and project management, project controls, engineering, technology, technical advisory, property, design etc.
- At least three years of industry-related experience, including five years in upper management required
- Degree qualified or similar, ideally in Health and Safety or Engineering is mandatory. Further educational qualification or professional membership is desired.
- Chartership with safety related industry related body such as IOSH or the IIRSM
- Established track record of driving operational safety improvements in regulated safety-critical and process-led businesses.
- Managing teams of over 15 people, with a track-record of driving performance and evolving mindset
- Previous experience of supporting businesses moving from a tactical/procedural safety context to the desired leadership based on modern behavioural-led safety strategy.
- Acting as a link between health, safety, environment, and performance and using behavioural change to address underlying performance issues.
- Able to work cross-functionally and act as a focus point of the broader team, responsible for the overall performance, not just safety.
- Has an established external safety network beyond transport / electrical industries and including HSE.
- Significant experience in the industry, having successfully led teams through strategic business objectives (i.e. organizational change management, growth & geographic expansion, etc.)
- Demonstrated expertise in business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modelling, leadership technique and coordination of people and resources
- Proven ability in building cohesive teams and facilitating goal accomplishments by aligning individual and team actions with strategies and plans to drive business results
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