Lead Operational Safety & Asset Management Specialist

Vattenfall is one of the largest energy companies in Europe. We generate electricity and heat and supply energy to millions of customers. We do this in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands.

With approximately 21,000 employees, we are making a future possible in which we are less dependent on the use of fossil fuels for our energy. We are at the forefront of the transition to a sustainable energy system. To be able to achieve this ambitious goal, we are looking for talented individuals who, alongside their passion for their own role, also have a strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Do you want to apply your expertise in operational safety where it truly matters? As Lead Operational Safety & Asset Management Specialist, you will help ensure that safety is not just well-documented, but is a visible and effective part of the work every single day.

Within Operations & Asset Management, we manage and maintain power plants and technically complex production installations in the Netherlands. These installations play a vital role in a safe, reliable, and flexible energy supply and evolve alongside changes in the energy system.

As Lead Operational Safety & Asset Management Specialist, you are the dedicated H&S partner for Plant Management, Operations, Maintenance, and Asset Management. You support the operational organization in managing risks surrounding business operations, maintenance, and changes. You do not take over ownership of safety, but rather strengthen managers and teams through coaching, technical advice, and targeted verification in the field.

The focus of this role, therefore, is not behind a desk, but at our locations. There, you build relationships with the people performing the work and see firsthand what your contribution means for a safe and reliable operation.

What will you do?

You work in a technically complex industrial environment involving production installations, electrical systems, maintenance activities, overhauls, changes, and contractors. Together with our H&S specialists, you ensure cohesion, clear escalation, and a consistent application of safety processes and critical control measures.

Specifically:

• You coach and advise Plant & Asset Management, Operations, and Maintenance on operational risk assessments, work permits, securing/LOTO, critical controls, Management of Change and asset integrity.
• You are visibly present in the field. You do not just check if procedures and agreements exist, but primarily whether critical control measures are actually effective during the work.
• You lead or support incident reporting and investigation and help translate lessons from incidents and observations into concrete improvements in daily practice.
• You contribute your H&S expertise to operational reviews, maintenance preparation, changes, commissioning, and handover, working closely with others such as the Safety Specialist for Overhauls and Projects, Electrical Safety Engineer, and Occupational Hygienist.
• You provide coaching and training and help teams to continuously improve. You make the current situation transparent, bring obstacles to light, support small learning experiments, and help to close the PDCA cycle.

In doing so, you work according to principles of continuous improvement: you look at the current situation, help to define a desired future state, investigate obstacles together, and support small learning experiments. In this way, you help teams close the PDCA cycle and make improvements a sustainable part of the daily work.

For this position, you will regularly travel to various locations in the Netherlands. Meetings, audits, training, or temporary support at other locations may require additional travel.

Location:  
Diemen

Who are you? You combine solid H&S expertise with the ability to make safety a part of daily operations. You feel at home in a technically complex environment and know how to bring people along through collaboration, technical knowledge, and persuasiveness.

We offer  You will receive a position in which you can directly connect your H&S expertise to the daily practice of technically complex energy installations. You will spend much of your time in the field, working with various technical disciplines, and will be given the space to contribute to further strengthening safety within the operation.

Your salary level will be based on your education and relevant work experience. The salary for this position is between € 4862,- and € 6077,- gross per month, excluding holiday allowance, based on a 38-hour work week.

Additionally, the employment benefits package for Dutch vacancies consists of, among other things, the following according to current internal standards:

• 8% holiday allowance, a year-end bonus of 4.5%, and a profit share of up to 3.5% of your annual salary based on the results of Vattenfall Netherlands;
• an NS Business Card for commuting or a travel allowance of € 0.23 per kilometer up to a maximum of 50 kilometers one way, plus a home office allowance of € 3.05;
• 20 vacation days, 5 non-statutory vacation days, 3.5 vitality days, and 13 ADV days with a 38-hour contract based on a 40-hour work week;
• Mijn Budget Mijn Keuze, with which you can, among other things, buy or sell extra vacation days or purchase a bicycle;
• pension at ABP, where Vattenfall contributes 70% of the premium and you contribute 30%;
• a training budget for your personal development.

About Vattenfall

Within our energy production, safety and reliability are central. As Senior Operational Safety & Asset Management Specialist, you contribute to this very concretely by bringing people, technology, and safe working methods together.

We believe that complex challenges can be solved when we bring together knowledge, experience, and different perspectives.

There is a way.

Apply / Want to know more?

Does this sound like an environment where your expertise in operational safety can truly flourish? We would love to receive your application no later than November 22nd.

For questions about the position or the application process, please contact  Thijs Suurmond via thijs.suurmond@vattenfall.com

At Vattenfall, we are convinced that diversity makes a great contribution to our organization. Therefore, we constantly strive for a harmonious balance between our employees in terms of age, sexual orientation, religious belief, gender identity, (work) disability, and cultural or ethnic background. 

The safety of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. Therefore, a pre-employment screening is part of the selection process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening is carried out by a third party,  DISA Global Solutions AB. 

We look forward to your application!