Global Human Performance Expert - Remote

Role overview

Culture and leadership

• Develops, and implements functional (i.e., HSE) learning and cultural development activities, in alignment with the Hitachi Energy's HSE strategy, including but not limited to the Hitachi Energy's HSE cultural assessments.
• Drives functional cultural transformation initiatives across Hitachi Energy, in close collaboration with the Business Units with a hands-on approach that engages shop floor employees and front-line leaders.
• Drives transformation initiatives linked to Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles - learning from successes and failures by instilling an open and transparent reporting environment in HSE.
• Guides, coaches, and advises on transformational HSE programs to focus on a culture of LIFE* (*Life-changing Injury and Fatality Elimination).

Communication and learnings

• Builds functional competence and capacity through innovative HSE cultural assessment solutions to ensure that HSE commitments, standards, processes, and procedures are communicated, implemented, and measured throughout the company value chain.
• Partners and collaborates with the Business Units to drive learning and best practices to fully integrate the HOP principles in HSE.

Digitalization and analytics

• Contributes to Hitachi Energy's acceleration in its HSE transformation by identifying, assessing, and reporting on global emerging HSE trends related to Human Performance.
• Supports digital innovation initiatives in Human Performance, new trends and forays to help advance and transform HSE through emerging digital trends.

Operations and risk management

• Contributes to the continual improvement of Hitachi Energy's HSE Operating System (HSE-OS) standards to support Hitachi Energy's ambition for world-class HSE performance.
• Supports the implementation of the HSE-OS standards, expectations and learning mechanisms to improve Hitachi Energy's HSE performance for frontline operations teams.

Governance and competency

• Benchmarks current HSE processes and culture assessment and improvement mechanisms with internal and external best practices and challenges status quo at all levels.
• Influences key stakeholders to accept new practices and innovative approaches, and ability to communicate and influence senior leadership.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, safety, or organizational development
• 8+ years of relevant global HSE experience, preferably in manufacturing
• 3+ years of practical Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) experience implementing the principles of HOP to drive cultural change in an international manufacturing or project environment.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
• Problem solving and initiative-taking and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication skills to work in a complex and global organization.
• Ability to prepare clear, accurate, business-oriented, and concise reports, correspondence, and other written materials.
• Global travel up to 50%
• Capable of working autonomously with remote and global teams and delivering in complex working environments and across multiple time zones (flexible working hours when required).

Preferred

• Experience with industrial and organizational psychology
• Experience and/or familiarity with ISO-45001 & ISO-14001
• Ability to work within and support matrixed global leadership and functional teams