Senior Expert Project Safety

**Job Function**:
Environmental Health, Safety (EH&S) and Facilities Services (FS)
**Job Sub Function**:
Environmental Health & Safety
**Job Category**:
Professional
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

J&J Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a **Senior Expert Project Safety** reporting to the EH&S Manager and to be based in Geel (Belgium)

The **Senior Expert Project Safety** will support the Johnson & Johnson manufacturing site in Geel, Belgium.

Geel is the largest chemical production site for small molecule API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) within the J&J Innovative Medicines Supply Chain. We ensure lifesaving medicines reach the patient, safely, optimality, competitively and always. Beside production of API's, the site has a launch & grow mission for new pharmaceutical products. To accomplish this mission, we keep investing in new technologies, people, and partnerships. We work together in a dynamic environment where innovation and a 'can do' state of mind are common good.

As a Senior Expert Project Safety, you’re a member of the Site EH&S Occupational Safety & Process Safety Team, you will feel the beating heart of our pharmaceutical manufacturing. You support and advise the site in implementation of safety policies and practices during capital investment projects.

If you are a detail-oriented, solution driven, collaborative and passionate about Occupational & Technical Safety, and like to work with many functions and levels of the organization, then this job might be perfect for you.

**Key responsibilities**:

- You guide all aspects of the EH&S Policy in capital investment projects at various stages of projects at the Geel site.
- As a generalist in the field of EH&S, you can provide advice on various areas (process safety, personnel safety, environmental issues, etc.) during changes or design. For specialized knowledge, you can reach out to various other experts.
- Legal commissioning and all the administration that goes with it of new or modified equipment/workplaces.
- Support of the project teams in their actions: guidance/participation in risk assessments (incl. HAZOP, JSA, )
- You will have ownership for specific EH&S topics linked to Project or Technical Safety: for example Management of Change process, Construction Safety, Fall Prevention, Machine Safety, Electrical Safety,.
- You will address as first point of contact daily related to EH&S questions, investigation, technical changes, and continuous improvement initiatives for a part of production.
- You promote a culture of continuous improvement and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of operational and EH&S processes.
- You assist internal and external EH&S audits and inspections.
- You participate in an on-call system in the context of internal emergency planning at the Geel site.

**Qualification**:
**Education**
- You are technical bachelor or equivalent through experience.
- You are prevention advisor level 1 or 2.

**Experience and Skill**:
**Required**:

- You have knowledge and first experience in the field of EH&S in a highly regulated industrial context.
- You have experience in EH&S commissioning and qualification
- You enjoy achieving results, both independently and with diverse teams
- You can deal with people at all levels within a large and complex organization.
- You can take initiative to achieve goals and achieve results in a timely manner. Being able to plan your own tasks in advance is therefore important.

**Preferred**:

- You are business focused, proactive and can be a true teammate.
- You like to work in a sophisticated and constantly evolving international environment.
- You take initiative, are capable of accurately assessing priorities, even under time pressure and you are a decision-maker.
- You are willing to further develop by taking additional training courses.
- You have Construction Safety experience

**Other**:

- You are proficiency in spoken and written English and Dutch
- You are willing to travel (10%)