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You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.\nThis position reports to:\nManufacturing Unit Manager__\nYour role and responsibilities\nIn this role, you will have the opportunity to lead ABB's Health, Safety, Environment (HSE), Compliance, and Facilities Management programs, ensuring a safe, compliant, and high-performing workplace. You will drive a culture of operational excellence by ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, managing risk, and supporting continuous improvement across the site. Beyond HSE leadership, you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing ABB's facilities and physical assets, ensuring they are fit for purpose, compliant, well-maintained, and provide a positive environment for employees and visitors. This includes overseeing facility improvement initiatives, asset maintenance programs, site infrastructure projects, contractor management, and workplace enhancements that support both operational effectiveness and employee experience.\nWorking closely with leaders across the business, you will lead HSE, compliance, facilities management, and site training activities, helping to create a safe, compliant, and high-performing workplace.\n\n The work model for this role is: Onsite #LI-Onsite\nThis role is contributing to ABB's Electrification Critical Power business in Napier, New Zealand. Key stakeholders include operational leaders, manufacturing teams, facilities and site management, employees, contractors, regulatory authorities, and regional HSE stakeholders. \nTogether, you will help create a safe, compliant, well-maintained, and engaging workplace that enables our people and business to succeed.\nYou will be mainly accountable for:\nLeading health, safety, environmental, and compliance management systems while driving a proactive safety culture across all business activities. \nCoaching leaders to ensure compliance with legislation, ABB standards, policies, and internal requirements.\nManaging regulatory compliance obligations, permits, audits, inspections, and corrective actions. \nOverseeing Site & Facilities activities to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient operations.\nLeading risk assessments, maintaining risk registers, and reporting significant risks to leadership.\nOverseeing all training requirements, including HSE programs, manufacturing skills matrices, and ABB-mandated training, while coordinating delivery with the Training Coordinator. Managing incident reporting, investigations, corrective actions, and trend analysis to drive continuous improvement.\nSupporting environmental, quality, and ISO compliance requirements, while tracking and reporting safety and compliance KPIs to leadership and regulatory bodies.\nDriving behavioural change initiatives and ensuring HSE and compliance capabilities are aligned to best practices and business objectives.\nYou will join a talented and collaborative team where you can thrive while contributing to a culture of safety, integrity, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.\nQualifications for the role\nTertiary qualification in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Management, Risk Management, Compliance, Engineering, or a related discipline. \nMinimum 5 years of experience in a safety, compliance, or risk management role within a manufacturing or industrial environment. \nStrong knowledge of health and safety legislation, with demonstrated experience conducting incident investigations, audits, inspections, and risk assessments. \n Working knowledge of ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and ISO 9001 management systems. \nProven success driving behavioural and cultural change initiatives that improve safety performance and organizational capability. \nDemonstrated leadership experience, including stakeholder engagement, talent development, coaching, and performance management. \nAbility to motivate, influence, and support cross-functional teams while building strong relationships at all levels of the organization. \nStrong analytical, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills. Experience working within a management team environment and contributing to strategic business decisions is highly regarded.\nWhat's in it for you?\nJoin ABB's Electrification Service team in Napier, delivering innovative electrical solutions to customers across New Zealand. \nBe part of a safety-first culture focused on operational excellence, customer success, and continuous improvement. \nPlay a key role in shaping the site's safety, compliance, and operational performance agenda. \nCollaborate with experienced professionals while contributing to critical infrastructure and sustainable growth. \nGrow your career with a global technology leader committed to innovation, inclusion, and development.\nMore about us \n ABB Critical Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division’s technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division’s portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world’s largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division’s ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.\nBuilding a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. 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