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Director Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) (m/f/d)
VBA Clarios Germany GmbH & Co.KG, Hannover

Director Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) (m/f/d)

At Clarios we are producing the world’s best batteries essential for the evolving future of transportation. Every third car battery in the world is produced by us. Join our leading team and be part of the success story of VARTA! With your experience in EH&S, strong cross-cultural communication skills and business acumen, together we can strive towards our strategy to create wins for our customers every day. Ready to power your career within a fast pace global team and bring your own ideas to life? Then take on the challenge and become part of our EMEA EH&S team!

Benefits: What we offer you

As a technology leader with strong brands (i.e. VARTA® and OPTIMA®), Clarios notably lives on the creativity, capability and satisfaction of its employees. Therefore, we offer people with drive and power many good reasons to join us:

  • Exciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement and sustainability.
  • Arrange your working hours and breaks flexible via our flexible and trust-based working hours model and combine your professional and private life even better according to our mobile work policy and company kindergarten.
  • A competitive remuneration package, including additional payments such as holiday, Christmas as well as company pension scheme.
  • Your well-being is very important to us: Take advantage of our preventive health care offers such as fitness center, physiotherapist, modern office environment, healthy canteen, team and company events or hobby clubs.
  • Stay fit whilst at the same time positively contributing to our environment: Lease your company bike and use public transportation subsidized by Clarios (Job Ticket).
  • Our well-advanced onboarding process and buddy program supports you to quickly grow into the position and team. By using the offering in our Internal Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program you will be able to further grow professionally and personally.
  • Last, but not least we support you in relocating and finding a flat in location surrounding if appliable and depending on individual factors.

Your contribution

As the Director EH&S (m/f/d) you will coordinate, guide and coach all EH&S and Risk Management activities including Security and Fire Protection across international activities in Clarios EMEA (Plant locations, Commercial offices/Sales and Headquarters), focusing on the right priorities, reporting to the top management on all EH&S matters and advise them. As Director EH&S (m/f/d) you are reporting to VP Operations, being member of the Global EH&S team, developing new concepts for the improvement of EH&S, managing important projects within the plant locations and EMEA region overall and use synergies. Furthermore, the responsibility of this position includes the ownership for the business continuity plan, rules for emergency events and guidelines for security as well as buildings and insurance matters. The position will be based in our Clarios EMEA headquarters office in Hannover, Germany.

Key Responsibilities: What you will do

  • Ownership for all EH&S activities incl. Environmental, Risk Management, Security and Fire protection issues for EMEA.
  • Execute Clarios vision and strategy including BBP & Gap analysis. Developing roadmaps to close gaps.
  • Advise top management on environmental and energy aspects of new product developments, handling of environmental investigations and proceedings.
  • Provide training to top management, local management teams and additional required stakeholders as appropriate.
  • Secure that procedures, work instructions and other necessary tools are in compliance with legal, Clarios and FM Global standards on EMEA level.
  • Advise during Corporate Risk Management summits and global environmental meetings.
  • Conduct environmental and EH&S site assessments, base line studies and remediation programs in cooperation with external consultants.
  • Identify projects, develop and roll-out new concepts for the improvement of EH&S and fire protection issues. Manage multi plant important projects on EH&S.
  • Advice plant managers on applications and permits for operations and buildings.
  • Ensure that the Environmental and Energy management system and the Health and Safety Systems are audited and maintained in all plants throughout EMEA in accordance with the requirements.
  • Coordinate H&S issues like prevention of accidents, safe use of heavy metals and other chemicals, blood lead reduction.
  • Develop and maintain standard reporting processes and reports.
  • Coordinate maintenance and improvement activities for HQ building.
  • Drives corporate-wide EH&S initiatives in liaison with Global EH&S and corporate Risk Management.
  • Coordinate property insurance and company liability issues with corporate Risk Management.
  • Liaise and cooperate with Legal department in all matters that might expose the cooperation to legal actions from authorities or other third parties.
  • Coordinate EH&S lobbying activities in EMEA and European countries.
  • Coordinate all activities to comply with the European regulations e.g. ELV, REACH and Battery Directive.
  • Represent Clarios on EH&S in the key associations.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: What we look for

  • University degree in Engineering, Business Management, Chemist PHD or related studies, preferable with an EH&S background
  • Advanced work experience within an international matrix organization including functional expertise in EH&S
  • Mastery EH&S skills including risk management, security and fire protection, and environmental investigations, and proceedings
  • Ability to understand business needs, developing strategies and roadmaps and putting those plans into action
  • Ability to prioritize, working toward deadlines, multi-tasking and operating in an environment with shifting priorities
  • Ability to build strong working relationships with various functions and levels in an international environment as well as external suppliers
  • Strong customer service focus, including strong cross-cultural communication and presentation skills
  • Solid leadership skills and the ability to coach and train top management and local management teams
  • Excellent proficiency in working with Microsoft Office Package, Microsoft Teams and Outlook
  • Fluency in English language – both in written and spoken, German language skills are a plus

You want to learn more about the position and our EMEA region? Check out our regional page and get in touch with our recruiting team.

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About Clarios:
Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. We power progress through ever-smarter solutions for virtually every kind of vehicle. With 16,000 employees in over 140 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous ESG focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We recover, recycle and reuse up to 99% of our battery materials. Clarios is a Brookfield portfolio company.


To all recruitment agencies: Clarios does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Please do not forward resumes/CVs to our careers email addresses, Clarios employees or any other company location. Clarios is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.

Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email Special.Accommodations@Clarios.com.

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