QHSE Lead – Belgium

NHV Group is a European based helicopter service provider, specialised in business-to-business helicopter services both offshore & onshore.

Job Summary

The QHSE Lead supports the effective operation, assurance and continual improvement of the QHSE Management System, providing day-to-day leadership across group QHSE activities.

A central purpose of the role is to lead the Group approach to Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental management, with particular responsibility for coordinating ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 across the Group. The role establishes a consistent framework, supports local process owners and ensures that assurance, performance, and improvement actions are managed effectively across countries, approvals and business functions. Travel between Group locations as required.

Responsibilities & areas

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

The role leads and coordinates the Group framework for quality management: –

• Develop, maintain and continually improve a consistent Group Quality Management System framework aligned with ISO 9001, company requirements and operational needs.
• Coordinate the Group assessment of organisational context, interested parties, customer and statutory requirements, and quality risks and opportunities that could affect intended outcomes.
• Work with Group and local process owners to define process purpose, responsibilities, interfaces, controls, inputs, outputs, measures and retained evidence.
• Coordinate Group quality objectives and performance measures, ensuring that targets, owners, timescales and reporting arrangements are clearly established.
• Set common expectations for document and record control, including approval, review, version control, availability, retention and withdrawal of obsolete information.
• Develop and coordinate a risk-based Group internal audit programme covering ISO 9001 processes, shared functions and selected local implementation; issue clear findings and verify corrective-action effectiveness.
• Maintain a consistent Group approach to nonconformities and corrective actions, including containment, root cause analysis, ownership, due dates, escalation and effectiveness review.
• Support common controls for externally provided products and services, including supplier evaluation, performance monitoring and escalation of quality concerns.
• Consolidate and analyse customer feedback, audit results, process performance, nonconformities and trend data to identify systemic and local improvement opportunities.
• Prepare Group quality inputs for management review and track resulting decisions and actions through to verified closure.
• Coordinate Group and site support for certification, surveillance and recertification audits, including evidence preparation, interview schedules, corrective-action responses and closure records.
• Responsible for complying with Information Security Management System (ISMS) policies, procedures, and controls and supporting information security objectives.

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The role leads and coordinates the Group framework for environmental management:-

• Develop, maintain and continually improve a consistent Group Environmental Management System framework aligned with ISO 14001 and company environmental policy.
• Coordinate a common methodology for identifying and reviewing environmental aspects and impacts across normal, abnormal and reasonably foreseeable emergency conditions.
• Establish the Group process for identifying environmental compliance obligations and require local owners to evaluate compliance against the legislation and permits applicable in their jurisdiction.
• Work with local managers to establish and evidence operational controls for significant environmental aspects, including waste, hazardous materials, spills, energy, fuel, emissions, water and contractor activities.
• Coordinate Group environmental objectives, programmes and performance indicators, ensuring that responsibilities, resources, milestones and evaluation arrangements are defined.
• Consolidate environmental performance data, analyse trends and report material risks, compliance concerns and opportunities for improved resource efficiency to Group management.
• Set common expectations for environmental emergency preparedness and response, including exercises, lessons learned and follow‑up actions.
• Coordinate environmental audits and assurance activity, record nonconformities and observations, and verify that corrective actions are effective.
• Promote environmental awareness and support local leaders in communicating significant aspects, operational controls and consequences relevant to personnel and contractors.
• Prepare Group environmental inputs for management review and coordinate support for external certificati