Senior QHSE Advisor
Amersfoort - Netherlands
Job Summary
At Yokogawa we believe a sustainable future starts with smarter safer operations. From industrial automation to AI and cybersecurity were building technologies that make a difference and were looking for people who want to make one too.
Lead the European QHSE function across 18 countries with a team of more than 20 professionals. You own the regional integrated management system covering ISO 9001 ISO 45001 ISO 14001 and ISO/IEC 27001 and connect quality health and safety environment and information security to how the business actually runs.
What youll do
Set the regional direction
Develop and lead the European QHSE strategy. Translate Group requirements and business priorities into objectives annual plans and measurable improvements agree them with European and country leadership and secure the resources to deliver.
Lead and develop the team
Directly manage more than 20 QHSE professionals across Europe. Set responsibilities and performance expectations coach build specialist capability and plan succession. Manage the regional budget and resources balancing consistent standards with local needs.
Own the integrated management system
Lead the development and continual improvement of the integrated management system across all four standards. Maintain certification within the agreed scope with common processes clear ownership and effective management reviews across the region.
Drive quality and customer satisfaction
Work with sales engineering procurement project delivery and service to improve process performance and the quality of products and services. Lead the response to significant customer complaints and recurring nonconformities reduce the cost of poor quality and verify that corrective actions prevent recurrence.
Strengthen safety and environmental performance
Lead regional programmes to prevent injury and ill health control operational risk and improve environmental performance across offices customer sites and projects. Make employee participation and accountable leadership the norm.
Coordinate information security governance
Own the integration of information security into the management system working with IT information security specialists and process owners. Risks responsibilities supplier controls awareness and corrective actions are managed consistently; technical controls stay with the specialists.
Lead assurance compliance and investigations
Set the regional audit strategy and run a risk-based internal audit programme across all four disciplines. Maintain oversight of applicable obligations with local management and subject-matter experts. Escalate significant gaps verify corrective-action effectiveness and prepare the region for certification and customer audits. Lead or oversee investigations into serious safety and environmental incidents significant quality failures and management-system nonconformities and coordinate information security investigations with the responsible specialists. Establish a consistent root-cause approach that turns lessons into changes across the region.
Advise senior leadership
Act as the senior regional adviser on QHSE. Challenge decisions where risks are unacceptable recommend practical solutions and escalate what needs executive action. Represent Yokogawa with customers regulators and certification bodies.
Turn performance data into decisions
Own regional objectives KPIs and reporting across the integrated management system. Give European leadership a clear view of performance emerging risks and overdue commitments. Lead management reviews that result in decisions accountable owners and follow-through.
Bring QHSE into business decisions early
Embed QHSE and information security requirements into bids contracts supplier selection projects and organisational change. Support sustainability reporting with reliable environmental and safety data and prepare the region for changes in legislation and standards.
What you bring
- 8 years in QHSE integrated management systems or a related compliance function including 3 years in a multi-country or multi-site leadership role
- 5 years of direct people management leading a large geographically dispersed team managing performance and developing future leaders
- Background in industrial automation process industries engineering or a comparable operational environment
- Hands-on leadership of integrated management systems covering ISO 9001 ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 plus practical experience governing or integrating ISO/IEC 27001 requirements
- A track record managing certification leading audit programmes and delivering measurable improvement in quality safety and environmental performance
- Experience overseeing serious incident investigations significant customer complaints and complex corrective-action programmes
- Experience managing regional budgets resources priorities and organisational change
- The confidence to influence senior leaders challenge constructively and turn technical requirements into business decisions
- A degree in engineering quality occupational safety environmental management or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience
- Fluent English; other European languages are an advantage
- Regular travel across Europe
Who you are
- Accountable you own outcomes across 18 countries not just your own teams output
- Analytical you break down complexity find clarity in data and act on what you find
- Influential you build trust with managing directors project leaders and site teams and hold the line when it matters
Why Yokogawa
Were not just engineering smarter systems were enabling a better planet. With over 18000 employees across 60 countries we bring deep expertise and a shared purpose to everything we do. Whether its supporting the energy transition advancing biotech or protecting critical infrastructure your work here will matter.
Were also proud to be recognized for Best Asset Monitoring and Best Digital Twin Technology and even prouder of the diverse inclusive culture behind that success.
Not just a job but a career
Yokogawa award winner for Best Asset Monitoring Technology and Best Digital Twin Technology at the HP Awards is a leading provider of industrial automation test and measurement information systems and industrial services in several industries.
Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition (bio)technology artificial intelligence industrial cybersecurity etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.
About the Team
Our 18000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission to co-innovate tomorrow. We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our return we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect value creation collaboration integrity and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.
Diverse Equitable & Inclusive culture
Yokogawa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Yokogawa wants a diverse equitable and inclusive will actively recruit develop and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience knowledge thinking styles perspective cultural background and socioeconomic will not discriminate based on race skin color age sex gender identity and expression sexual orientation religion belief political opinion nationality ethnicity place of origin disability family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong contribute succeed and demonstrate their full potential.
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About Company
Yokogawa is a leading provider of Industrial Automation and Test and Measurement solutions. Combining superior technology with engineering services, project management, and maintenance, Yokogawa delivers field proven operational efficiency, safety, quality, and reliability.