Assistant Manager – Corporate EHS (Group Governance)

Company Overview

Our client is a premier, Bursa Malaysia-listed global industrial giant and a world-class market leader in sustainable manufacturing. With extensive high-capacity smelting, extrusion, and advanced manufacturing footprints across Malaysia and internationally, they supply Tier-1 global industrial, automotive, and technological supply chains.

Committed to uncompromising workplace safety, ESG excellence, and sustainable manufacturing practices, their Corporate Group EHS division is seeking an experienced, proactive Assistant Manager – Corporate EHS to anchor group-level governance, policy standardization, and multi-site safety compliance.

Mission

Operating from the Group Headquarters, the Assistant Manager – Corporate EHS serves as the strategic corporate bridge between executive leadership and site-level entity EHS teams. This role provides technical advisory and corporate governance to ensure all operating business units adhere strictly to Group safety benchmarks, ISO management standards, and Malaysian statutory mandates.

Key responsibilities include standardizing corporate EHS frameworks, leading Group-level compliance audits, steering deep-dive root cause analyses (RCA) on significant incidents, consolidating multi-site analytics for executive review, and driving a unified zero-harm culture across the conglomerate.

Key Responsibilities & Activities1. Group EHS Policy, Strategy & Framework Governance

• Policy Harmonization: Support the development, continuous review, and group-wide standardization of corporate EHS policies, operational SOPs, and risk management systems.

• Corporate Oversight: Provide technical guidance and corporate governance to site-level EHS leads across multiple operating entities to ensure standard implementation of Group directives.

• Regulatory Compliance: Monitor and enforce group-wide compliance with national occupational safety, health, and environmental legislation (OSHA 1994 & Amendments, Environmental Quality Act, and related statutory guidelines).

2. Group Audits, Risk Assessments & Incident Review

• Audit Execution: Plan, coordinate, and lead comprehensive Group-level EHS compliance audits, baseline environmental assessments, and multi-site risk reviews.

• RCA & Incident Investigation: Review and evaluate significant site-level incidents and near-misses, conducting deep-dive Root Cause Analyses (RCA) and verifying that robust Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) are standardized across all entities.

• Action Tracking: Monitor and follow up systematically on audit findings, non-conformity closures, and statutory inspection recommendations with entity teams.