Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a [Job title] to join us at [place of work, country, specific entity] . If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

JOB MISSION: (Briefly describe the main objectives of the position)

Plan, coordinate, and enable actions that ensure safety, hygiene, and occupational health conditions, as well as control the environmental impacts of all manufacturing units of Wavin Brazil, aiming to comply with safety and environmental legislation applicable to the industrial activities carried out. Act in the management of SSMA (Safety, Health, and Environmental Management) and ISRS (International Safety Rating System) ensuring the control and updating of relevant documentation, as well as assisting the SGI (Integrated Management System) area in obtaining certifications for all units in Brazil. Implement corporate guidelines for safety, hygiene, occupational health, and the environment throughout the territory, supporting SSMA programs, ISRS, and legal requirements.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the SSMA (Safety, Health, and Environmental Management) department to ensure compliance with standards, legislation, ISRS requirements, and applicable corporate procedures.
• Ensure the development, planning, and execution of safety and environmental activities at the corporate level.
• Define labor and environmental monitoring plans for all manufacturing units.
• Ensure technical alignment of concepts so that projects, equipment installations, and processes comply with corporate SSMA guidelines.
• Evaluate and ensure legal compliance of operations at the corporate level (obtaining and renewing operating licenses, fire department permits, chemical product licenses, etc.).
• Ensure that SSMA procedures are updated and in accordance with the Integrated Management System (SGI).
• Plan and ensure the approval of suppliers for environmental and safety services.
• Ensure that SSMA operational practices in Wavin's manufacturing units are aligned with applicable legislation.
• Ensure that SSMA operational practices in Mexichem's manufacturing units align with corporate safety, hygiene, occupational health, and environmental guidelines.
• Prepare and validate technical responses directed to internal/external stakeholders regarding safety and environmental performance inquiries.
• Monitor the progress of requests from official agencies and represent the company before them (FATMA, Health Surveillance, Fire Department, Public Ministry, Ministry of Labor, IBAMA, etc.), ensuring the accuracy of information and compliance with the requester.
• Ensure confidentiality of information related to Occupational Safety Engineering (labor processes, etc.).
• Collaborate with management to develop the annual budget and investment program for the area, defining expenses for payroll, staffing, and related costs.
• Participate in and conduct lectures, training sessions, and workshops related to Environment, Health, and Safety aimed at improving departmental processes.
• Prepare and validate defenses in labor lawsuits when requested by the legal department.
• Represent the company as a representative in labor and environmental lawsuits when requested.
• Serve as the legal technical responsible according to NR4.
• Lead, develop, and engage the team across different shifts and units to ensure compliance with all SSMA norms, policies, and practices.

REQUIREMENTS

• Chemical, Sanitary, Environmental Engineering and related fields. Specialization in Safety Engineering (is a must).
• Advanced level of English.
• Experience on the roll 5 years 

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE RECOMMENDED/REQUIRED FOR THE POSITION (Qualifications, knowledge, and experiences recommended for good performance in this role):

• Experience in Integrated Management System;
• Experience with the ISRS - International Safety Rating System;
• Experience with the Senior System - Management of PPRA, Work Accidents, PPP, CIPA Management;
• Experience with SAP – DMS, QM, PRD;
• Experience with risk assessment tools;
• Experience in industrial activities; environment, process engineering, commissioning of units/start-up of new plants, process auditing, process safety, occupational health and safety;
• Experience and knowledge in regulatory matters of SSMA, Health and Safety, and Environmental

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Contact us

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