Quality & Environment Manager, Nordics & Baltics

As Quality and Environment Manager you will collaborate and act as driver for our Quality & Environmental strategy, performance and culture. Ensuring that our activities always meet customers and business needs, third party and KONE Corporation requirements, processes and standards. You will facilitate and evaluate the implementation and contribute to the development of KONE Quality Management System and monitor the organizations quality and environmental performance via KPI supervision and audits.
In this role you will Lead the Nordics Quality & Environment team of six direct reports that work across country borders in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Finland and Baltics. You report to the Delivery Operations Director for Nordics and are a part of the Delivery Operations leadership team.

Responsibilities

• The Quality and Environmental Manager is responsible for implementing local and global Q&E strategies and setting long-term unit level KPIs in line with business strategies together with the business and business stakeholders.
• Promotes and deploys Quality & Sustainability as part of the KONE Strategy and proactive Quality culture, actively communicates the importance of Q&E and engages the organization.
• Assures that functional and operational leaders and teams globally and locally analyze, develop, and execute continuous quality improvements based on performance data and proactively gathers and analyses other relevant data to identify continuous improvement opportunities in the processes in full chain// end-to-end.
• Drives progress and monitors effectiveness of continuous improvement projects, corrective and preventative actions which are being logged within the organization and provides direction and support where needed.
• Leads and supports any required corrective actions required due to non-conformance.
• Lead and coordinate unit´s improvement activities and development programs related to environmental, climate or sustainability matters.
• Create Q&E action plans in the unit with objectives and KPIs, evidence of the performance and continuous improvement relevant to Q&E requirements.
• Collaborate with marketing, sales and Customer Solutions Engineering to ensure relevant customer requirements in KONE solutions and operations are fulfilled and communicated in line with e.g. customers´ climate targets, green building requirements. (e.g. LEED, BREEAM, local accreditation programs) and other Q&E customer requirements

KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

To succeed in your role, you need:

• Mature leader, able to drive change, develop high performing teams and collaborate closely with the business to develop the Q&E aspects of the business.
• Several years´ experience with Quality & Environmental Management systems and audits

ISO 9001:2015 compliance, preferably also with ISO 14001:201

• Experience with legislative compliance in Nordics counties
• Excellent in building strong stakeholder networks, leading across borders and working in an international and multicultural environment/matrix organization.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in English (verbal and written) with wide variety of audiences.
• A University degree in Engineering or similar technical background

We are looking for you with an ability to lead and coach your employees towards common goals and guidelines together with a business-oriented approach. You are a leader who identifies and breaks down barriers to open up communication. You encourage colleagues and team members to collaborate between different functions and to share and implement their ideas. You must be proactive and ambitious and at the same time enjoy working in a structured way.

We offer

We offer you an interesting and challenging position in a dynamic and international working environment.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Apply for the position

We look forward receiving your application as soon as possible since we are interviewing on a regular basis. If you have any questions, please contact our recruitment Consultant at JUREK Recruitment & Consulting, Ylva Ottosson at ylva.ottosson@jurek.se, +46 733 914108. Please notice we do not accept applications via email.