EHS Specialist

What to Expect

Tesla is seeking an ambitious EHS Specialist to support our dynamic network of Tesla locations in Tilburg. Reporting to the regional EHS Leader of the Benelux and East Europe, you will use human and organizational principles to drive ownership of safety, health, and environmental impacts, with a focus on engagement, learning from events, training and systems-level problem solving.

The overall charter is achieving compliance and risk control within the company’s and regulatory agencies’ standards in environmental, health and safety. You must work well on both self-initiated projects and those driven by stakeholders. You appreciate an environment where superior work is encouraged, noticed, and rewarded.

This position is based in Tilburg, NL and will require on-site presence on a day-to-day basis. The primary focus of the role will be Tilburg Campus, containing two parts distribution centers and one large remanufacturing center. This role requires you to adapt to market expansion needs as the business is growing and also provide support to the Tesla team in Benelux.

What You’ll Do

• Analyze incident trends and use risk-assessment methods to identify continuous improvement projects that reduce injury, illness, and environmental impact events.
• Interface with local regulatory agencies on permitting, reporting and related issues.
• Be a visible model in the field and teach, train and coach business teams and support staff on fundamental EHS concepts and principles to reduce risk, and influence, inspire and empower business teams and staff to minimize the risk per our Tesla EHS vision, values, and principles.
• Develop and maintain a partnership with and serve as a key advisor on EHS matters to Tesla operations leaders and stakeholders, associates, EHS members, and contracting partners.
• Conduct proactive and zero-blame, learning-focused field observations to verify that work in progress meets EHS goals and document findings.
• Identify operational gaps and creative solution facilitation, including identifying key stakeholders and driving innovative EHS solutions with cross-functional teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, Industrial Safety, Environmental Health or Industrial Hygiene
• Or significant work experience in environmental, health and safety
• Knowledge of Dutch work regulations, and requirements
• Excellent written and verbal language skills in English and Dutch
• Proactive as well as detail and result oriented with strong desire to succeed
• Strong interpersonal, communicative and stakeholder relationship skills; the ability to positively interact with the full range of senior business management and regulators, frontline workers and 3rd parties.
• Ability to prioritize and support multiple departments
• Have great attention to detail, problem-solving skills, multi-task, prioritizing, and working in a highly fast-paced environment, and a demonstrated ability to perform duties independently and remotely with minimal supervision
• Ideally hold a valid driver’s license
• Flexible in time management and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time in the regional area