Environmental Health Safety Specialist (Fluent German Required))

German speaking (C1 Level) & Fluent English required

The role is to support and ensure services are delivered in a safe and responsible manner, in addition to assuring effectiveness and implementation of management systems designed to ensure the quality of services provided.

The position will provide professional Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) support functional leadership to nominated/various contracts in an assigned Country, ensuring Company and Regulatory compliance, governance and general environmental services, waste management, grounds maintenance industry best practice.

The position foresees the maintenance in the assigned Country and Operations of the Quality Management, Health and Safety and Environmental, IT Security and IT Service Management Systems.

He/she is also responsible for the compliance to all local applicable laws and regulations related to QHSE.

• Purpose of the Role
• To provide competent, professional Health, Safety, Environment and Quality support and guidance to European assigned contracts and to be the main point of contact for HSEQ matters for allocated contracts.
• To support the Europe Business Unit in the execution of the HSEQ strategy for the Europe business and ensure processes are established and in place at contract level to regularly monitor progress; leading on the coordination of action plans to correct where and if appropriate.
• Help to deliver key QHSE improvement plans, KPIs and objectives, taking into account the key risks faced by the contracts and report on progress.
• To support the review, development and improvement of the management system and support its implementation at contract/site level.
• In addition to general and traditional Health, Safety, Environment and Quality, to support and advise on 'Country specific' safety and compliance related topics.
• Conduct inspections and audits and assist contracts to achieve compliance where performance improvement observations have been identified.
• Ensure correct and suitable 'performance' information is obtained, maintained and managed within local, regulatory systems in suitable formats and timescales.

Key Responsibilities

Primary

Responsible for the health and safety of the assigned country contracts within the nominated sectors, noting that accountability for ensuring high standards of health and safety practice lies with contracts and operational teams.

• To manage and oversee contracts to defined standards for HSE compliance, including:
• HSE statutory and SMS compliance being effectively managed by the contract.
• HSE actions being managed and closed out in a timely manner.
• To manage and develop team members, ensuring appropriate work allocation and that all activities are completed on time and to a high professional standard.
• To ensure that all incidents, accidents, and other QHSE data and information are entered into relevant applications accurately and in accordance with agreed reporting procedures.
• To review generic working procedures and risk assessments.
• To conduct site inspections, planned general inspections, engagement activities, and security inspections/checks (either physical on-site, virtual, or remote).
• Attendance at H&S Committee meetings (either physical on-site or remotely).
• Attendance at local management/leadership meetings.
• To produce QHSE performance reports where necessary.
• To drive cultural change within the business to improve
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