HSE Support Specialist

At AkzoNobel health, safety and the environment are core principles for our daily work and business. It?s essential for us to care about the safety of our colleagues and everyone we deal with, and focus on people, product and process safety. We take sustainability seriously and has been ranked number one on the influential Dow Jones Sustainability Index for four consecutive years.

Do you want to be a part of the team that keeps AkzoNobel in the front end concerning HSE? Do you want to make a difference? Are you passionate about health, safety and the environment? If you are, we have the right position for you!


Main duties and responsibilities
In this position you will support our sites in Europe and Asia as a HSE specialist. You can be seated at any location where we are represented in Europe (Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Germany for example). You will ensure that all European and Asian sites adheres to their local legislation and meets the Akzo Nobel standards. This means identify and helping the sites deviating from the plan of achieving the common platform targets. You will:
- Ensure a close follow-up of the people and process safety programs like Behavior Based Safety, Process Safety Management, SAQ compliance etc
- Analyze the gaps, agree on correction plans and support the sites in the progress
- Providing adapted trainings, advices and support
- Acting as internal consultant, formulating possible solutions
- Conducting risks assessments and other investigations like root cause analyses
- Establish and maintain a solid best practice platform between the HSE business partners through networking

Qualifications
- Minimum five years of experience from operation including HSE responsibilities
- Knowledge of the AkzoNobel HSE functional role and HSE management systems and programs
- Degree in HSE, chemical engineering or related discipline or equivalent by experience
- Ability to drive continuous improvement of the processes, policies, standards
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Good verbal and written English language skills


What can AkzoNobel offer you?
If you share our values and ambitions, we can give you a career where your knowledge and ambitions will be recognized and rewarded. You will be working in an international environment with many possibilities to develop, both personally and professionally. You will be offered interesting and challenging projects that open your view and challenges your enterprise. You will be working with likeminded people that share your attitude and enthusiasm. By working for AkzoNobel you will also help us to achieve our ambition ? to be the first choice by our customers, shareholders and employees, all over the world.

Additional information
This is a permanent position on a full time basis, reporting to the Akzonobel Pulp and Performance chemicals HSE director. Please apply via our online recruitment system. We perform drug tests on all employees as a part of our effort to maintain a drug-free environment.

For additional information about the vacancy please contact Philippe Castermans, HSE director, phone +33 635595973.

For information about the recruitment process, please contact Matilda Bolin, Talent Resourcing Partner phone +46702893322.

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