Health and Safety Specialist

Make Safety Matter — Every Day

At BME, the mission of our Health & Safety teams is clear: protect people, strengthen wellbeing, and create safer workplaces across our international organization. We go beyond compliance — we actively lead positive behavioural change, reduce risk, and continuously improve working conditions.

Our vision is to lead by example, ensuring safety is always top of mind for everyone operating on our premises. Through care, innovation, and continuous investment in our buildings, equipment, and people, we contribute to sustainable operations and business continuity across Europe.

To further strengthen our Group Health & Safety organization, we are looking for a Group Health & Safety Specialist who combines structure, ownership and collaboration with a passion for continuous improvement.


🚀 Your Role

As Group Health & Safety Specialist, you will support the Group Director Health & Safety in implementing group-wide policies, driving alignment, and strengthening collaboration with Health & Safety teams across our Operating Companies (OpCo’s).

You will play a key role in connecting strategy with execution — ensuring consistent standards, reliable reporting, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide Health & Safety leadership support, guidance and training to BME and OpCo teams.
  • Support the design, implementation and monitoring of group H&S strategies and policies.
  • Coordinate and improve group-wide H&S audit programs and follow-up actions.
  • Ensure accurate and timely monthly reporting and analyse accident & incident trends.
  • Prepare reporting and materials for H&S Managers, H&S Steering Committee and Executive Management.
  • Implement and improve digital tools to enhance and automate H&S processes.
  • Support knowledge sharing and best-practice exchange across OpCo’s.
  • Lead and contribute to autonomous group-wide projects (e.g. digitalisation initiatives).
  • Help develop a true Center of Excellence for Health & Safety within BME.


This role is for 16 hours a week, ideally based on-site in Amsterdam, or fully remote from Barcelona, Berlin, Kiel or Madrid.

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