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Engineering
Process Engineering
Environmental, Health & Safety
Process Engineering
Environmental, Health & Safety
Quality
Compliance
Compliance
Regulatory Affairs
Regulatory compliance
Regulatory compliance
Staff
Project Management
Project Management
About Your Next Job
- Co-lead and further strengthen occupational safety and process safety management across laboratories, production areas, engineering environments, and capital projects.
- Ensure safe operations, regulatory compliance, robust risk controls, and continuous improvement of safety systems in a dynamic biotech and advanced therapies environment.
- Combine strong technical safety expertise with practical operational experience, sound judgement, and the ability to influence stakeholders across functions.
About Your Next Colleagues
- Part of the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) team in Leiden.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including operators, engineers, laboratory staff, contractors, and operational leaders.
About Your Tasks and Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and maintain occupational safety and process safety management programs, policies, procedures, and standards across laboratory, production, and engineering areas.
- Co-lead and coordinate process hazard analyses and related PSM activities, and management of change.
- Conduct workplace and process risk assessments and translate findings into effective technical, procedural, and organizational controls.
- Strengthen key safe-work systems, including permit to work, confined space entry, hot work, lockout/tagout, contractor safety, and energy control.
- Lead or support incident investigations, root cause analyses, and the timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
- Drive compliance with applicable Dutch and international occupational safety and process safety requirements, standards, and best practices, including ISO 45001 and recognized PSM frameworks.
- Prepare for and support internal audits, external audits, regulatory inspections, and required EHS reporting.
- Design and deliver practical training on occupational safety, process safety, and safe work practices for operators, engineers, laboratory staff, and contractors.
- Act as safety advisor during design, commissioning, qualification, and change-control activities to embed safety by design and fit-for-purpose risk controls.
- Coach standard owners, subject-matter experts, and operational leaders to promote ownership, proactive risk management, and a strong safety culture.
About Your Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, Biology, or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
- Completed HVK qualification or equivalent senior occupational safety qualification.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in occupational safety and process safety management within biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical, manufacturing, or another high-hazard technical environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading or facilitating HAZOPs, LOPA studies, risk assessments, hazard evaluations, and incident investigations.
- Strong knowledge of occupational safety legislation, process safety principles, ISO 45001, and relevant industry standards and best practices.
- Practical understanding of laboratory and production safety systems, mechanical and electrical safety, energy isolation, and process safety barriers.
- Proven ability to influence, advise, and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams in a complex organization.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Fluency in Dutch and English, both spoken and written.
About Your Benefits
- An annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions.
- Vacation days.
- Parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks.
- Bereavement leave.
- Caregiver leave.
- Volunteer leave.
- Well-being reimbursement.
- Programs for financial, physical and mental health.
- Service anniversary and recognition awards.
- Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans.
Where Molecules Meet Opportunities
- Johnson & Johnson is responsible to its employees who work with them throughout the world, providing an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual.
- Respect for the diversity and dignity of employees and recognition of their merit.
- Focus on Innovative Medicine and MedTech to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions.
- Commitment to preventing, treating, and curing complex diseases, delivering breakthroughs that profoundly impact health for humanity.
Only apply if...
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, Biology, or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
- Completed HVK qualification or equivalent senior occupational safety qualification.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in occupational safety and process safety management within biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical, manufacturing, or another high-hazard technical environment.
Contact person
Frank Helmus
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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com