Would you like to champion a culture of health, safety and compliance on a global scale? As our Global Health & Safety Lead, you'll be part of the driving force behind strategic initiatives that help keep our employees healthy and safe.
What you do as Global Health & Safety Lead
You play a crucial role in advancing our worldwide H&S culture by driving strategic initiatives and fostering a healthy, safe and compliant work environment. The primary responsibility of this role is to lead global transformative initiatives and foster cultural shifts to reach the desired H&S culture. As global Health & Safety Lead you also:
- Further develop and lead the growth and execution of our global H&S program, ensuring alignment with our company goals.
- Provide guidance and leadership to H&S professionals across the globe.
- Oversee H&S governance, ensuring proper policies and processes are in place and are managed for among others emergency preparedness, incident management and business travel.
- Take charge of evaluating and reporting on H&S metrics, using data-driven insights to steer continuous improvements.
- Review and refine H&S operational processes and procedures, incorporating feedback from users and clients.
- Work on the ongoing enhancement of our Integrated Quality Management System, maintain adherence to ISO45001 standards.
- Establish and maintain mechanisms to ensure H&S compliancy in our projects and services.
- Manage external H&S service providers.
- Coordinate corporate crisis and incident management teams and overseeing office emergency response organizations in different countries.
- Collaborate closely with your colleagues within the Operational Excellence team to achieve shared objectives on H&S.
Where you will work
Royal HaskoningDHV is a worldwide independent engineering, project management and consultancy firm which integrates 140 years of engineering expertise with digital technologies and software solutions. Our 6,000 colleagues are working from offices in more than 25 countries across the world. Through our mission Enhancing Society Together, we take responsibility for having a positive impact on the world.
As Global Health & Safety Lead, you become part of the global Operational Excellence & Risk Management team. Our team plays a leading role in helping our organization achieve its operational and strategic goals through process enhancements, directing key improvement initiatives and ensuring regulatory compliance. You collaborate closely with 15 professionals in QHSE, project management and risk management roles. We are mainly based in the Netherlands and the UK, but we also have colleagues in Southeast Asia. You report directly to the Corporate Director Operational Excellence and Risk Management.
What you bring
A global perspective and a passion for health and safety. We are looking for a candidate who is experienced in managing H&S culture and behaviour programmes in an international setting. Our ideal candidate has:
- A master's degree in a relevant field and over 10 years of experience working in H&S, preferably in an international engineering environment or related field. You also have a relevant post master education in the field of H&S (such as MoSHE).
- Passion for H&S, and a good understanding of how to link processes and behaviour to corporate strategy, as well as dealing with complex stakeholder management.
- A good understanding of the latest insights in H&S.
- Strong knowledge of ISO45001 and related standards and has experience in working with and improving integrated management systems.
- Can build robust programmes and see through their implementation, building on strong programme and change management experience having led programmes before.
You are familiar with MS Office Tools and PowerBI and can speak and write English fluently.
What we offer you
- Generous Annual Leave: Enjoy 25 days of annual leave, complemented by designated bank holidays. For extended respite, you can purchase up to 10 additional days. Furthermore, you have the flexibility to exchange Easter Good Friday and Easter Monday for alternative religious observance.
- Hybrid Working Model: We embrace flexibility with a hybrid work arrangement-a perfect blend of remote and office-based work.
- Secure Your Future: Our 7% employer pension contributions ensure financial security (3% employee contributions). You can contribute more through salary sacrifice.
- Health and Well-Being: Benefit from private medical and dental cover (fully paid by the company) and extend it to your family at discounted rates. We also offer life insurance, maternity, adoption, and paternity pay, as well as specialised programs for menopause and fertility support.
- Travel Perks: Commute with ease using our discounted rail travel options.
- Peace of Mind: Opt for voluntary critical illness cover for added peace of mind.
- Retail Discounts: Unlock exclusive discounts through our retail discount scheme.
- Support Services: Access our Employee Assistance Program and face-to-face counselling services.
- Career Growth: Explore development opportunities and chart your career path in our dynamic environment.
As an employee-owned organization, we take immense pride in our unique structure. Picture this-a path to ownership. Through our profit share scheme, you have the opportunity to invest in the company by purchasing shares. It's a win-win: you save, you own, and you are part of our success story.
Are you our new colleague?
Then we would like to meet you! Apply now via the button. Would you like to know more about the job or the procedure? Please contact Recruiter Max Kapteijn at max.kapteijn@rhdhv.com.
After applying and initial CV screening, the procedure consists of two interviews, each attended by two colleagues.
Acquisition by agencies is not appreciated.