Sandra Sanchez

Director of Health and Safety
GKN AUTOMOTIVE
Technical Engineering in Chemistry, Higher Engineering in Organisation, Higher Master’s in Safety and Quality and the Environment.
She has worked at GKN Automotive since 2005. First in Legazpi, as a forging and quality Engineer for 5 years, later in the departments of Prevention and Human Resources, and the last 4 years as Quality and Risks Manager. After 6 months as Production Manager, in 2018 she took charge of the Zumaia and Legazpi plants, where she was the head of Quality and Risk Management.
In 2021 she took up the position at the multinational of general director of HSE (Health, Safety and Environment), at GKN Driveline. Since January 2023 she holds the position of Director of H&S (Health and Safety) at GKN Automotive.
During her years in Legazpi she was a member and head of the Basque Language Commission. Now she is in direct contact with the multinational’s General Communications Group and it is her responsibility to make any communication they generate accessible in all languages, trying to ensure that the message is understood in the same way in the different languages and taking into account the different cultures for this purpose. GKN Automotive is a British company that works in the automotive industry, specifically in the production of vehicle drive systems.