Additional information
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Position, Tasks, and responsibilities
As part of his growth strategy, there is unique opportunity for a Health & Safety Manager & Prevention Advisor to join our Knauf Energy Solutions management team to:
- Establish, update, and maintain the company H&S policy up to the best standards
- Ensure a practical and performing implementation of H&S standards on our Construction sites, mainly in Belgium, Netherlands and exceptionally in the United Kingdom, driving our teams and partnering contractors toward excellence
The HSE Manager & Prevention Advisor is responsible for a safe, ergonomical, and sustainable work place for all KES employees worldwide.
The HSE Manager & Prevention Advisor will be assisted by a team external HSE experts.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
H&S Policy
- Serves as H&S point of contact for authorities, customers, and internal safety audits. Reports to the MD in the role as legal Safety Advisor (Preventie Adviseur)
- Develops, maintains, and coordinates a standardised Audit program Belgium wide; aligns with the overall European organization for ISO certification (45001).
- Functions as a Senior Auditor/Lead Auditor according to the standards OHSAS 18001 (ISO 45001)
- You report Key Performance Indicators, gap analysis and action plans to the Executive Committee (EXCO)
- Develop and operationally deploy the KES Way, and HSE policy in close cooperation with the different internal stakeholders (Operations, Sales, Data Science, Public Affairs)
- Supports the Managing Directors to drive improvement by developing and providing leadership, training, and resources for Health&Safety.
- Creates Safety Awareness and encourages a safety driven culture through training and education solutions
- Interacts with the C-suite to advise necessary continuous improvement efforts so that systems and processes are in line with overall company strategy
Teams support
- You support the site in the implementation and application of the HSE Policy and HSE related procedures
- You establish constructive working relationships with the Site, Construction Manager and operational leaders
- You follow and support operational activities (HSE aspects) from mobilization till demobilization of the site, this includes subcontractors
- Cultivates a strong safety management culture in all functional areas to drive standardization, improve efficiency, and reduce injury rates
- Builds and maintain sustainable working relations with external stakeholders, such as safety auditors and external HSE advisors
- Conduct incident investigations based on incident classification and liaise with engineers, management and health and safety regulatory authorities to identify causes of accidents and prevent their recurrence
- Create action plans by identifying potential emergency situations, creating emergency communication plans that addresses operation or business disruptions, recovery, testing and validating the emergency action plans
- Consulting on risk assessment (planning, implementation, and operations) for all site locations
- You provide training for subjects related to your specific HSE related competences
Place of work safety
- Assist in fire alarm drills, and training of first aid helpers
- Identify and review hazard, risk and opportunities on an ongoing and proactive basis and ensure that appropriate follow up actions are being implemented on all KES offices locations
- Participate in the development of offices & production related emergency response procedures
- You perform internal HSE inspections & audits in line with the internal audit & inspection planning that you developed
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Construction or Technical area with specialization in Safety Management or equivalent through experience
- 10 years relevant professional experience within a production environment with at least 3 years in a Safety Advisor role
- You are Health and Safety advisor – level 2 (Belgian Law)
- You master the current HSE related legislation on construction and are aware of the latest developments
- Excellent verbal and written Dutch & English language skills, French will be appreciated
- Computer skills: at ease in an IT mature company, mastering MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), online resources and Outlook is a minimum
- Demonstrated knowledge of UK CDM regulation and/or Netherlands Safety regulation is a real asset
Qualities
- Supporting & facilitating change: enables and shapes change, helps others (including 3rd parties) to understand the need for change and adapt to it
- Resilience – Maintains self-control, direction and effectiveness in high-pressure situations.
- Strategic thinking – Creates a clear, long-term and shared vision and mission for KES integrating information from internal and external resources.
- Translating work methods into thorough risk analysis is nothing new
- You possess an entrepreneurial mind, self-motivated, showing flexibility, being innovative and result-oriented while promoting teamwork
- Very open, adaptative and flexible mindset, with the ability to learn from, and communicate with, people from very different backgrounds.
- Strong communication skills and business acumen
Benefits
We Offer:
- A “start-up” company culture with the support of a major group, driven by innovation and the will to open new markets
- A unique career growth opportunity in the very dynamic market of energy efficiency retrofit at Belgian and European level,
- A great benefits package, including among others: 7 weeks holidays, company car; health & group insurances; meal/eco vouchers,
- A multicultural work environment
If this is your dream role, then we’d love to hear from you.
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Part of the Knauf Group, we are the building performance solution for asset owners. We support the delivery of high-quality energy efficiency outcomes for new build and retrofit, as well as providing smart home services.
Key to what we do is a technology breakthrough – the negaWatt hour meter. For the first time energy efficiency can be measured the same way as energy generation. A kiloWatt hour of energy saved is now equivalent to a kiloWatt hour of energy supplied.
This technology means that asset owners can:
- Calculate the real energy savings day-after-day for building retrofits
- Properly benchmark the fabric energy performance of new builds and retrofits
- Create the necessary feedback loops to significantly improve the design and quality of work on-site
Part of the service we provide are the associated retrofit design and works, delivered with the highest Quality and Health & Safety standards.