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Blue Phoenix is looking for a proactive and experienced Country Health & Safety Manager to lead, support and continuously improve health and safety performance across our Dutch operations. You will play a key role in implementing and maintaining health and safety standards, driving risk reduction, strengthening safety culture and ensuring that critical operational risks are effectively controlled. This role involves travel across various sites in the Netherlands, reports to the Managing Director Netherlands, and includes functional alignment to Group Health & Safety.
Benefits
- A challenging role within an internationally operating organisation. You will join a motivated team in an informal and dynamic work culture.
- An attractive salary with a 13th month.
- 8% holiday allowance based on the gross annual salary.
- 27 vacation days per year.
- Extensive opportunities for personal development and training.
- A solid pension scheme.
- Mobility options.
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of health and safety policy, procedures and standards across the Netherlands
- Advise the Managing Director, site managers, supervisors and employees on health and safety matters
- Ensure compliance with Dutch health and safety legislation, RI&E requirements, internal standards and industry good practice
- Conduct and review risk assessments, inspections, audits and workplace observations
- Facilitate incident, accident and near-miss investigations, including root cause analysis and corrective action follow-up
- Support critical risk management, including mobile plant, vehicle/pedestrian segregation, energy isolation, work at height, lifting operations, contractor control, fire, dust, noise and occupational exposure
- Develop and deliver safety training, toolbox talks, awareness campaigns and management briefings
- Monitor H&S performance, report trends and ensure actions are closed effectively
- Promote a positive safety culture where unsafe work is challenged and stopped when required
- Work with Group Health & Safety to standardise reporting, procedures, Life Saving Rules and continuous improvement across Blue Phoenix
Qualifications
- 8-10+ years of health and safety experience, preferably in waste/recycling, heavy industry, manufacturing, construction, logistics, utilities or another high-risk operational environment
- Strong operational H&S experience across multiple sites
- HVK qualification, or MVK with commitment to achieve HVK
- NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent
- NEBOSH Diploma or working towards NEBOSH Diploma would be highly advantageous
- Strong knowledge of Dutch health and safety legislation and practical application of RI&E
- Experience with ISO 45001-style health and safety management systems
- Experience in contractor management, permit to work, RAMS/JSA review, inspections, audits and incident investigation
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both shopfloor teams and senior management
- Fluent in English, written and spoken. Dutch is considered an advantage
Start Date
To be agreed upon.
Please note: providing a certificate of good conduct (VOG) is part of our recruitment process.
Blue Phoenix does not accept resumes from staffing, search, or recruitment firms without a signed agreement. If you send us a resume without such an agreement, we may contact the candidate directly without any obligation whatsoever and no fee of any kind will be paid should we hire the candidate.
About Blue Phoenix
Blue Phoenix is a global resource company. Every day, we recover value from materials others discard. From incinerator bottom ash and construction waste to contaminated soil and tar-containing asphalt. We specialise in transforming complex materials into renewed resources for construction and infrastructure. Operating on four continents, Blue Phoenix teams are on a daily mission to shift the world's mindset from seeing waste as a problem to recognising it as potential. Through smart sorting, recycling and recovery, we give materials new life, with safety as our core value and guiding principle. We partner with clients, plant operators, contractors, regulators and the wider society to create a truly circular economy. Working together towards our mission of nothing wasted, every resource reborn. Do you want to contribute to a reliable organisation and a sustainable future? Then we would love to meet you!
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