Coordinate workplace safety and prevention from Petten, with regular travel to Arnhem. The role covers risk assessments, audits and inspections, and helping implement improvements. Workload: 0.6 FTE.
The role
As an HSE Coordinator and safety professional at our client company, you will take a leading role in achieving safety objectives and further improving safe working practices. Your main focus is occupational health and safety; you will also be the unit’s contact for environmental matters. You report to the unit manager.
Responsibilities
- Advise management and employees on safety matters, both on request and proactively.
- Act as the prevention officer: prepare and maintain risk inventories and evaluations (RI&Es), and monitor progress on the action plan.
- Maintain VCA documentation in the management system.
- Accompany external audits and carry out internal audits and inspections.
- Identify problem areas and unsafe situations, and help develop and implement improvements.
- As head of the in-house emergency response team (BHV), ensure the team in the building is adequately staffed and trained.
- Provide information and instruction on safe working practices.
The work takes place in laboratories, workshops and offices. Working from home is possible. Some tasks are carried out at third-party locations in the Netherlands and abroad.
What you bring
- A safety qualification at least at MVK level.
- A completed technical higher professional education qualification (HBO), for example in chemical technology.
- At least two years of comparable experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills across all levels of an organisation.
- A good command of Dutch and English.
- An SB-CD certificate as a radiation protection expert, or willingness to obtain it.
- The ability to inspire and motivate colleagues, bring them along in change and influence behaviour.
- You lead by example, plan and organise well, and work effectively in a team.
- Willingness to undertake further training and education.
Practical details
- Workload: 0.6 FTE.
- Fixed base: Petten, with regular travel to Arnhem.