Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

Job Title

Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

Job Description

The Health & Safety, Environmental specialist will Implement, maintain and improve a Health & Safety Management System for Philips. Identify and prioritise the most significant H&S risks and implement programs to reduce any impacts from such risks to an acceptable level. Set and achieve objectives to continually improve EH&S performance to meet changing business and regulatory needs. Communicate the policies to employees and other stakeholders. Train and develop employees to enable them to support EH&S programs.

In this role, you have the opportunity to:

Influence EHS operations in CEE region and support CEE management in EHS related projects.

You are responsible for:

• Coordinating Environmental, Health & Safety failure investigation and verify effectiveness of corrective actions implemented.
• Providing EHS & Fire Prevention training to new employees, as well as visitors and contractors employees.
• Maintaining and updating Philips Corporate Safety Standards
• Performing Risks Assessments according with Philips Corporate Safety Standards and Romanian legislative requirements for all activities.
• Providing H&S support at the activities in Offices, Research and Development locations, Field Service Operations and other activities including activities at Customer and Supplier premises, trade shows, conferences, travelling on business etc.
• Continuous Improvement of the Environmental, Safety and Health performance at the site, with the reduction/elimination of recordable incidents, to avoid fines due to not compliance with legal requirements, to enhance the Safety culture improvement. 
• Organizing and coordinating the EHS activities of the site in order to achieve the company expectation and goals. 
• Working closely with the EH&S Leader to implement EHS Plans and EHS goals for the region. 
• Implementing and coordinating the EHS Programs, Policies and Procedures for the location. Monitor and take action to ensure compliance with local EHS regulations 
• Supporting the H&S leadership team in managing H&S in Philips as required.
• Acting as technical expert in Accident Investigation

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Higher education, necessary according to Romanian legal requirements in Occupational Health and Safety;
• More than 3 years in EHS management experience 
• Language skills: Fluency in English is required
• Demonstrated ability to set and lead priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a global environment.
• Strong H&S risk assessment skills
• Experience of managing Safety Programs
• Being familiar with Occupational Health and Safety management systems standards such as ISO 45001 is required

How we work at Philips

Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

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