EHS officer

The job

The EHS Officer is responsible for maintaining the environmental management system (ISO14001) and the ISO45001, world’s international standard for occupational health and safety, issued to protect employees and visitors from work related diseases and accidents.

In this position you execute and guard the company policy related to Environment, Health and Safety. Further on, you notice and solve bottlenecks and advise/ instruct and share knowledge within the organization. You manage (including audit planning, execution and reporting) and maintain the 14001 and 45001 management systems, in which you are the expert. Related to management systems, you support departments by solving issues on a pragmatic way. You conduct and support internal audits, including preparation, documentation and the follow up of action points and during external audits you guide and support as well.

Next to that, the EHS Officer executes other operational topics that are related to Environment, Health and Safety (EHS), like the planning, execution and reporting of Safety Patrols. Besides that you keep the database for unsafe situations/ incidents up to date and you support during incident investigations. In the EHS team, you support the EHS engineer and EHS manager.

Your back ground
You have an educational background related to this job, like for instance IVK or MVK, preferably supplemented with experience in a similar position in industrial/commercial organization.

Preferably you have knowledge of both management systems for this position, but at least knowledge of either ISO14001 or ISO45001 with the intention to learn and to get acquainted with the missing management system.

We request a high level of responsibility and a firm personality who is able to balance between compliance on the one hand and pragmatic solutions on the other hand. Innovative, pragmatic, independent and representative describes you as a person.

Good knowledge and command of MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint). Proficiency of the English language is required. For the sake of visualisation and reporting, good knowledge of PowerBi is a preference.