Quality & HSE Manager for a leading industry company

Norden Machinery Aktiebolag · Full-time

Prästkragevägen 15, Kalmar, Sweden

Norden is a world-leading machinery manufacturing company headquartered in Kalmar, Sweden. As a key player in the production flow, we specialize in advanced solutions for tube filling, cartoning, and packaging automation. Our packaging solutions handle everything from the smallest tubes to the largest, with production speeds from 40 tubes per minute up to 1,000 tubes per minute. We serve our customers, from pre-sales consulting, through production and delivery systems, to after-market services. Our business portfolio encompasses a broad range of innovative solutions for use in the food, toothpaste, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and industrial segments. We strive to continuously expand our product portfolio and improve our capacity to meet our customers' changing needs. For more detailed information about Norden and our operations, visit www.nordenmachinery.com. Norden is part of Coesia, a group of innovation-based companies in industrial and packaging solutions with global operations and headquarters in Bologna, Italy. Coesia operates in 34 countries with 20 different companies and has over 8,000 employees. Quality and HSE Manager for a growing operation Do you want to be part of creating a safe, sustainable, and quality-driven operation where you have a strong mandate to make an impact? Are you an engaged leader with a passion for quality, work environment, and continuous improvements? Then this might be your next career step. About the role As Quality and HSE Manager, you will have a key role in the operation with responsibility for leading, developing, and ensuring the company's systematic work in quality, health, safety, and environment (HSE). You will be an important part of the management team and work closely with the operation to ensure that quality and HSE matters are a natural part of the company's culture, processes, and business development. Your main responsibilities As Quality and HSE Manager, you have overall responsibility for developing, driving, and ensuring the company's work in quality, health, safety, and environment. You work both strategically and operatively and have a central function in the operation's continued development. Through close collaboration with management, supervisors, and employees, you contribute to creating a culture where quality, safety, and continuous improvements are a natural part of daily work. You are responsible for the company's management system and ensure that processes, procedures, and working methods are continuously developed to meet both business objectives and regulatory requirements and customer expectations. An important part of the assignment is to analyze the operation's results, identify improvement areas, and implement these into concrete actions that strengthen both quality and efficiency. The role also involves you being the company's expert in this area and keeping the organization updated on changes in legislation, standards, and other external requirements. You drive the work of integrating quality and HSE perspectives into the operation's processes and ensure that effective methods for monitoring and control are in place. As a member of the management team, you have the opportunity to influence the company's development at both strategic and operational levels. You are a natural change leader who engages and motivates the organization in the work toward high quality, safety, and sustainability goals. Some of your responsibility areas are to: Lead and further develop the company's systematic quality and HSE work. Responsible for internal and external audits and follow-up of action plans. Drive improvement initiatives with a focus on reduced complaint costs and improved quality results. Lead the work of the occupational health and safety committee and actively contribute to management team meetings and follow-ups. Collaborate with customers, suppliers, authorities, and other external stakeholders. Ensure compliance with laws, regulatory requirements, agreements, and internal policies within your area of responsibility. Responsibility for systematic fire safety work and the assignment as safety responsible for the company's work as a Known Consignor within air freight. This is a role for you who wants to combine operational work with strategic influence and who is driven by creating long-term improvements in quality, work environment, safety, and sustainability. Who are you? We are looking for you who have strong commitment to quality, safety, and sustainable development and who thrive in a role where you can combine strategic work with operational presence. We believe you have: University education in quality, environment, occupational health, or equivalent. Several years of experience in quality and HSE work within manufacturing industry. Experience in leadership and successfully driving change and improvement initiatives. Good knowledge of current legislation in quality, occupational health, and environment. Very good skills in Swedish and English, both spoken and written. To succeed in the role We are looking for you who are a natural leader with a strong drive and ability to translate ideas and strategies into concrete results. You thrive in a role where you can take initiative, drive change, and create engagement in the organization. Through your clear and trustworthy leadership, you bring people along and build good relationships at all levels of the operation. As a person, you are analytical and structured with a good ability to identify improvement areas and solve problems efficiently. You have a pragmatic approach and can balance long-term goals with the operation's daily needs. At the same time, you are solution-oriented and see opportunities where others see challenges. To thrive and succeed in the role, you need to be engaged, action-oriented, and communicative, with the ability to create understanding for quality, work environment, safety, and sustainability throughout the organization. You work independently, take responsibility for your areas, and are motivated by developing people, processes, and operations. Interested? Welcome to contact Mary Winblad, HRBP via [email protected]. You can reach the union representatives at Norden Machinery via the company switchboard, tel. 0480-44 77 00. You apply for the position via our website www.nordenmachinery.se no later than September 27, 2026. We look forward to your application!