Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist

About the job

An excellent opportunity to join the Quaker Houghton EHS team in a position where you can gain experience working in our EMEA HQ site in The Netherlands. You will be able to engage with production, office and lab teams to promote our EHSQ standards to ensure sustainability and the drive for continuous improvement.

Safety is the core of our culture. You will be key in the effort to engage with all company staff operating within the Uithoorn site to ensure adherence to Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Quality requirements. Work with your key stakeholders to identify priorities and create an EHS focused environment where staff feel comfortable raising concerns and helping to minimize any EHS risks. Participate in different European and Global projects that drive innovation and exceed customer expectations.

Tasks

What will you do?

• Serve as the focal point for support and implementation of the corporate EHS programs and software systems.
• Lead and/or participate in incident investigations, near misses and hazard identifications and ensure appropriate root causes are identified and corrective actions are implemented in line with corporate requirements. Perform EHSQ audits/inspections and ensure appropriate corrective actions are developed and implemented on a timely basis.
• Provide support of appropriate occupational hygiene related policies and programs.
• Support implementation of the Company s EHS management systems strategy (ISO14001 and 45001)
• Provide EHS knowledge, guidance, coaching and training to establish a positive progressive EHS culture. Act as a key resource for EHS training requirements.
• Become the technical expert to implement the Corporate EHS online training system
• Serve as a technical resource in the coordination of emergency preparedness on the site.
• Work closely with the Regional EHS Manager, Local/Regional Engineering, site operations and the external firms to effectively identify and manage loss prevention issues.
• Coordinate with Operations/Engineering personnel work around MOC processes.
• Coordinate with Local/Regional Engineering on any facility construction/demolition projects
• Supervise EHS consultants and contractors hired to perform EHS services such as EHS legal compliance audit, samples collection, noise measurements, air emissions, industrial hygiene testing, fit testing, etc.
• Interact with regulatory agencies during compliance inspections. Responds to written correspondence and inquiries from outside regulatory agencies
• Analyze and interpret regulatory requirements and permit conditions that apply to Quaker Houghton operations (manufacturing locations and chemical management activities) and work closely with plant management to address EHS requirements and concerns.

Requirements

What do we look for?

Experience: A minimum of 3 years experience in the environmental, health and safety discipline with a strong focus on safety required. Ideally within a manufacturing environment in the chemical, oil & gas, food or similar sector.

Education: Bachelor's degree is a must. Advance certification, additional specialized environment and safety education is highly valued.

Technical skills:

• Solid technical and regulatory expertise in relevant environmental, health and safety regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of and some implementation experience with applicable industry standards including but not limited to ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, Responsible Care, etc.
• Solid technical and regulatory expertise in relevant regional and national product safety/stewardship regulatory requirements and associated management systems and programs.
• Process risk management best practices.
• Best practice knowledge related to unsafe acts and at risk behaviors.
• Incident investigation experience, root cause analysis and corrective action management.

Language: English & Dutch high language skills; written and spoken.

IT skills: (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Location: Uithoorn area.

Benefits

What s in it For You?

• Excellent onboarding and training programs as part of our QH University platform.
• Competitive compensation policy.
• Attractive Wellbeing, CSR, Sustainability, Women Inclusion & Diversity programs.
• Monthly gross payment of your health insurance costs.
• Great pension scheme.
• Discount program on several gyms.
• Fresh fruit service on site.
• Bicycle program.
• Joining a team where career opportunities are real and where empowered decision making and innovative initiatives are expected.

Who are we?

We are the global leader in industrial process fluids present in 40+ countries continually improving and innovating so the world s steel, aluminum, automotive, aircraft, machinery and industrial parts manufacturers can stay ahead in a changing world. Throughout our 100+ locations, our chemists, engineers and industry experts partner with our customers to continually improve their operations so they can run even more efficiently, even more effectively, whatever comes next.

Our values:

• Live Safe
• Exceed Customer Expectations
• Drive Results
• Embrace Diversity
• Do Great Things Together
• Act with integrity

Our core values embody who we are as a company, guide our decisions and inspire us. Our commitment to these values, in words and actions, builds a safer, stronger Quaker Houghton. They are the fundamental beliefs that guide our internal conduct and our relationship with the outside world.