Sr HSE Engineer @ Honeywell

Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.

Describe the key tasks / activities that are necessary to fulfil the purpose of the role – remember these actions should not be key “goals” – these should be reviewed and allocated annually as part of the performance development program

HSE Cultural Change

• Facilitate cultural change to improve HSE awareness in the workplace to reduce injuries, illness, and environmental impact by personally providing a strong example of HSE leadership presence across operational sites within China.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with Business Leaders, managers, site Engineers / operational staff and customers based on trust to promote the HSE Management System and to communicate the benefits of a planned and documented approach to the management of health and safety, to increase safety awareness and the commitment necessary to achieve a high level of HSE performance.

HSE Implementation

• Participate with Business leaders / FSM and their teams in the development and implementation of strategic health, safety, and environment annual plans for each relevant projects / contracts, including actions required to maintain China business HSE Certification to ISO45001, ISO 14001 and local safety council safety certification.
• Using internal resources and systems, monitor HSE lead and lag performance indicators to identify target business units, adverse trends, and predominant injury characteristics.
• In collaboration with relevant stakeholders, develop and implement injury prevention programs, including the preparation of business cases, the development and coordination of delivery strategies, and program evaluation.
• Provide expert advice and assistance to management and employees on work health and safety strategies, programs, systems, policies, standards, and processes, including:
• proposed changes in legislation and new legislation
• legal requirements affecting health and safety
• WHS Codes of Practice
• provision, selection and use of protective clothing and equipment
• review and distribution of Safety Alerts
• new working methods, equipment or materials that could reduce risks
• Facilitate the development and maintenance of Risk Registers on sites listing identified hazards and safety issues, risk levels and all controls implemented to manage risks to a level as low as reasonably practicable.
• Design and deliver health and safety training, arranging safety training courses where required and ensures that the appropriate records are maintained.
• Temporarily suspend or stop any unsafe system of work or process where they have reason to believe that the health and safety of employees or others is at risk and require the relevant parties to take immediate action.
• Ensure representation at safety committee meetings and ensure that effective safety consultation is taking place and being incorporated into policies and practices.
• Support all tender work and motivate employees to achieve their annual HSE targets
• Manage the sub-Contractor, conduct fatigue assessment and Ergonomic risk assessment
• Ensure compliance to customer in-House HSE requirement together with Honeywell requirement

HSE Oversight

• Develop schedules of planned workplace site observations, formal site inspections, HSE site audits and risk assessments in collaboration with “risk control owners” and involving management, leaders, and operational staff to analyse risks and to identify risk levels and risk acceptability.
• Deliver high quality reports and presentations to influence and drive a culture of safety within the relevant Districts.
• Oversee the provision of audit/inspection reports, with corrective actions, to the relevant manager for action and then carry out follow-up visits to ensure that corrective actions have been taken.
• Oversee the preparation and review of safe work method statements (SWMS) in consultation with relevant employees.
• Conduct the structured investigation and analysis of incidents (including significant and other reportable incidents), the identification of system causes, and the development of evidence-based recommendations, to improve systems and prevent incident recurrence, and to meet the reporting requirements of safety regulators.
• Develop strong relationships and act as liaison with workplace health and safety regulators and environment regulators on safety and environmental matters and accompany them during inspections.
• HSE representation in LOB leadership meeting, Management review meetings, customer site meeting, committee meeting etc.

Injury Management

• Develop strategies to promote compliance with Return-to-Work obligations as provided by Workers Compensation Legislation and ensure that managers and supervisors meet their injury management obligations.
• Provide advice to management on injury management and employee health and wellness, related legislation and best practice, and the benefits to staff and to Honeywell operations.
• Consult with injured employees to explain the injury management and workers compensation process and the obligations of the employee and the employer.
• Develop Return to Work (RTW) Plans for injured employees.
• Manage the implementation of the RTW Plan, monitor treatments and review and adjust the Plan as necessary, to ensure it is appropriate and to seek to progressively return the employee to pre-injury duties.
• Confer with and coordinate advice and information between multiple parties in injury management and related workers compensation management, including the employee, the employee’s supervisor, the Union delegate, the treating doctor, rehabilitation providers, the insurer’s Case Manager, Honeywell Payroll and Human Resources.
• Liaise with the Workers Compensation Insurer to maintain regular contact with the case manager and attend claims reviews.

General

• Compliance to Honeywell corporate requirements and legislation
• Contribute actively to global IA HSE Centre of Excellence projects such as upgrade of HSE online training system and upgrade of SOS database for example.
• Provide HSE review and approval for Electronic Contract Approval Process (eCAP) where required.
• Participate in Level 1 and Level 2 contract risk reviews.
• Assist in the development and review of safety management plans
• Audit Honeywell managed facilities to ensure the Company is compliant to statutory and corporate requirements and working to approved risk management practices.

Core skills

• Field HSE leadership
• Hazard recognition and risk management
• Coaching frontline employees and operational leaders on safe behaviors
• Translating HSE requirements into practical field controls
• Working effectively across multiple locations and operational teams

These align directly with the internal Senior HSE Engineer responsibilities around risk management, hazard recognition, safety culture, and partnering with operations.

• HSE Management Systems & compliance
• HSE Management Systems (HSEMS)
• Regulatory compliance
• Safety, environmental, occupational health and industrial hygiene fundamentals
• Crisis & Emergency Response Management
• Management-system conformance and assurance processes
• Incident investigation
• Root Cause Analysis
• Significant injury/incident investigations
• Investigation report writing
• Corrective-action development, monitoring, verification, and recurrence prevention
• Audit & assurance
• Internal HSE audits
• Corporate audit participation
• Progression toward Lead Auditor capability
• Audit preparation
• Corrective-action verification
• Assurance processes
• Operational improvement
• Continuous improvement
• Structured project execution
• Lean / Six Sigma capability
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to implement change across multiple organizational levels

Critical Senior-level soft skills

For the Sr. level, I would explicitly include:

• Influencing without authority
• Leadership coaching
• Effective communication
• Stakeholder management
• Tact and diplomacy
• Strong interpersonal relationship building
• Independent decision-making
• Cross-functional teamwork
• Organization and analytical problem solving

The internal role specifically emphasizes communication, influencing, interpersonal relationships, diplomacy, independent/team working, and implementing change across multiple levels.

Digital / business skills

• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Teams
• SharePoint
• Project-management tools and structured execution methods