Senior EH&S Engineer

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To develop, implement, and ensure continuous improvement on Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) within our European Center of Operations in Kerkrade. The primary purpose of this function is to maintain compliance with the requirements of all applicable national, state, and local regulations, and Boston Scientific’s corporate EH&S policies and requirements; drive and communicate EH&S awareness, performance, and continuous improvement. Responsible for appropriate procedures, implementations, and managing site Emergency Response and Crisis Management Team.

Acts as Expert Employee (Preventiemedewerker).

• Develops, maintains, and reviews the EH&S program to ensure compliance with current and future legal, regulatory, and corporate requirements.
• Proactively identifies and promptly addresses EH&S issues which may affect operations or may provide strategic advantage to the business and provides input for management review meetings.
• Establishes and tracks metrics for assessing EH&S effectiveness in the organization, including Environmental, Health & Safety accidents and incidents, management walks, energy, waste, emissions and develop/support plans to improve performance.
• Maintains an appropriate EH&S culture through cross‑functional cooperation, communications, promotions, and training including employee training on EH&S procedures, industrial hygiene activities, safety surveys, review and revision of local procedures.
• Responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the Energy, Environmental and Health & Safety Management System (ISO 14001, ISO 50001 & 45001).
• Responsible for the ongoing development and implementation Energy Management.
• Responsible for appropriate procedures, approvals, coordination, and control of dangerous goods and waste.
• Maintains all EH&S regulatory reporting requirements and communicates with governmental agencies.
• Serving as Coordinator of the Emergency Response Team; responsible for emergency planning and takes leadership role in EH&S emergency situations. Ensures that adequate evacuation and response arrangements are in place for fire, accidents, emissions, and all other emergency situations.
• Works in partnership with other Boston Scientific EH&S professionals to establish or adopt company demonstrated best practices relevant to our industry.
• Initiates, conducts and maintains records of safety training for the company.
• Investigates accidents, incidents and works with local management to identify necessary corrective actions and follow up.
• Monitors Risk Assessment Programmes and ensures the close out of action items.
• Maintains the EHS Corrective Action System and follows up to ensure the close out of items.
• Helps in the identification of initiatives which promote and develop improvements in EHS performance.
• Initiates, participates in and drives projects which improve on site EHS performance.
• Build quality into all aspects of their work by maintaining compliance with all quality requirements.

• Provides formal day‑to‑day coordination to the team including setting performance and productivity expectations, coaching on performance and development, coordinating activities, checking on quality and work progress.
• Reviews processes and maintains continuous improvement practices for the team.
• Implements performance evaluation tools to develop a high performance team.

• Requires tact and diplomacy to communicate standard information and exchange ideas in a concise and logical way; understands when to involve specific stakeholders.
• Assigns short‑term tasks to team members and conveys performance expectations.
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