Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety Manager

We at Yunex Traffic are a leading global intelligent traffic solutions company with US headquarters in Austin, Texas. We have more than 3,000 passionate employees across the globe who pioneer, develop, create, install, and maintain innovative road traffic and mobility technology all over the world. We make our roads smarter, safer, and greener. Yunex Traffic helps make public agencies more intuitive by providing a path to a digital transportation ecosystem, connected, and integrated and deliver solutions in the areas of Central and Adaptive Control, Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS), Connected Vehicle solutions (V2I) and Mobility-as-a-Service Job Summary The Quality and Environmental Health & Safety Manager is a senior functional leader responsible for the strategic direction, governance, and continuous improvement of manufacturing quality and environmental, health, and safety (EHS) across the company’s U.S. operations. Reporting to the Managing Director, this role leads a small team responsible for manufacturing quality and EHS/safety compliance. The Manager establishes an integrated management approach that protects employees, customers, and the environment while strengthening product quality, operational reliability, regulatory compliance, and business performance. The role partners with manufacturing, engineering, field services, project management, supply chain, Human Resources, Legal, and senior leadership. It provides visible leadership, uses data and risk-based decision-making, and ensures corrective actions are implemented, sustained, and communicated across affected operations. Essential Responsibilities Leadership and Functional Governance Provide overall leadership and governance for Quality, Environmental, Health, and Safety (QEHS) across Yunex Traffic North America, escalating significant matters to North American and global leadership as appropriate. Establish the annual QEHS strategy, objectives, operating plan and key performance indicators in alignment with business priorities. Own and govern the North American Integrated Management System (IMS), ensuring policies have designated functional owners, are regularly reviewed and updated, and are effectively implemented across all relevant departments. Partner with global leadership to interpret and deploy corporate policies and requirements, including those related to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001, and ensure employees receive appropriate communication and training. Maintain a centralized North American SharePoint repository for approved QEHS policies, procedures, and related IMS documentation, ensuring information is current and accessible to employees. Establish and maintain the North American risk and opportunity register in collaboration with senior leaders, and review progress on mitigation and improvement actions at least quarterly. Conduct monthly QEHS performance reviews with North American senior leadership, presenting key metrics, significant risks, compliance status, corrective actions, and required decisions. Prepare and facilitate the annual management review, ensuring required QEHS inputs, agreed business performance metrics, risks, opportunities, and improvement actions are presented and evaluated by senior leadership. Lead or coordinate internal, external, customer, and certification audits related to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and other assigned requirements, and ensure findings are resolved promptly and effectively. Integrate Quality and EHS requirements into business planning, operational reviews, organizational changes, supplier decisions, and project execution. Promote a culture of accountability, prevention, continuous improvement, employee engagement, and stop-work responsibility. Manufacturing Quality Provide oversight of the manufacturing quality management system for traffic control, intelligent transportation, electronic, electrical, and related hardware products. Ensure appropriate quality standards, inspection plans, test methods, acceptance criteria, control plans, and documentation are established and maintained. Oversee nonconformance management, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, change control, internal audits, and verification of action effectiveness. Oversee applicable ISO quality certification requirements, including ISO 9001, and coordinate integration with environmental and occupational health and safety management systems. Support customer, registrar, and supplier audits and ensure timely closure of findings. Provide governance for supplier quality, incoming inspection, supplier corrective actions, qualification activities, and quality improvement plans. Environmental, Health and Safety Provide strategic oversight of EHS programs for the Austin manufacturing operation and applicable U.S. offices, warehouses, field sites, customer locations, vehicles, and project activities. Ensure programs address applicable federal, state, and local requirements, including occupational safety, environmental protection, hazard communication, personal protective equipment, emergency preparedness, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, and hazardous materials or waste. Direct risk assessments, site inspections, audits, job safety analyses, safe-work practices, contractor safety reviews, and corrective action tracking. Ensure incidents, injuries, illnesses, near misses, vehicle events, environmental events, and serious hazards are promptly reported, investigated, documented, and escalated as required. Oversee root cause investigations and confirm corrective actions are assigned, completed, communicated, and evaluated for effectiveness. Ensure required safety training is developed, assigned, delivered, documented, and periodically evaluated. Monitor regulatory changes, assess business impact, and update programs, policies, and training accordingly. Maintain or oversee required EHS records, permits, logs, reports, and regulatory submissions, including OSHA recordkeeping and applicable environmental documentation. Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Medical Coordination Provide functional oversight of work-related injury response and workers’ compensation coordination in partnership with Human Resources, the workers’ compensation carrier or administrator, Legal, managers, and the company’s established occupational medical provider. Ensure injured employees receive timely directions to the designated medical provider when appropriate, while facilitating emergency care when required. Coordinate job-related medical guidance, work-status documentation, functional restrictions, follow-up care, and return-to-work information received through authorized providers and claims partners. Partner with Human Resources and operational leadership to support compliant transitional-duty or return-to-work planning based on documented restrictions and available work. Maintain appropriate separation and confidentiality of medical information and limit access to those with a legitimate business need. Analyze injury trends and claim drivers to identify preventive actions. This role does not independently diagnose conditions, provide medical treatment, or make employment-law determinations. Metrics, Audits and Continuous Improvement Establish dashboards and management reviews across quality, EHS, workers’ compensation, and corrective action performance. Use trend analysis, risk assessment, lessons learned, and operational feedback to prioritize improvement initiatives and allocate resources. Present concise reports and recommendations to the Managing Director and senior leadership, including significant risks, compliance status, performance trends, and required decisions. Promote consistent standards across locations while recognizing site, customer, project, contractual, and regulatory requirements. Decision-Making Authority May stop or suspend work when conditions present an immediate or unacceptable risk to people, product, property, customers, o