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Job Purpose and Impact

As an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist, you are the expert in your field. Together with the EHS manager, you will steer the course for the environment, health and safety within the complex facility in Sas van Gent. Your mission? Leading initiatives that not only comply with stringent regulations, but also ensure continuous improvement in the areas of environmental management, health and safety. You do this in an environment with an increased risk of serious injuries, environmental effects or process accidents. In short, a role in which your expertise makes a difference to the safety and health of others and to the preservation of our environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the plant in leading the external reputation and facilitate the community and governmental interaction and prepare required reports, requests for information and inquiry responses and facilitate governmental inspections, customer visits and company audits.
• Identify contractor support and needs and oversee onsite contractor activity and understand local risks applicable to contractor and external service providers, implement, monitor and evaluate approved processes to control local environmental, health and safety risks with contractors.
• Develop suitable training content and delivery models in line with global, regional and legal requirements, conduct gap assessment to identify competence needs, adjust curriculum to reflect site specific demand and organize and provide appropriate training.
• Understand, implement and execute environmental, health and safety controls and programs and work processes such as risk identification and assessment, emergency action planning and incident management, agency inspections and audit and internal inspections to ensure they work as intended.
• Partner with plant and project leaders and the local EHS team to promote and drive a strong environmental, health and safety culture in the facility team by building a mindset where a continuous improvement mentality is viewed as essential to success.
• Participate as a member of the site EHS team and consult on planning, issue and incident response and operational environment, health and safety and process safety compliance, understanding systems, integrated processes, regulatory issues and workforce conditions.
• Ensure strong alignment of environment, health and safety goals, metrics and targets with plant vision and targets and govern site performance targets together with plant manager.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Hogere Veiligheidskunde and/or Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Fluent level of English and Dutch

Preferred Qualifications

• Confirmed ability to deliver processes effectively to optimize business resources
• Strong scientific and mathematical knowledge
• Working knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards
• Basic business acumen and the ability to partner and communicate effectively with business counterparts

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