HSE & Permit Officer

Elestor has a job opportunity for a: HSE & Permit Officer

Do you want to power the energy transition? Are you a team player; ready, able and willing to take on varied and complex challenges?

As one of the most innovative and fast-growing companies in The Netherlands, Elestor offers exciting and competitive career opportunities with plenty of scope for both personal and professional development.

Elestor's Mission & Relevance

Imagine a world without polluting power plants, powered purely by clean electricity.

This world is closer than you think. The sun and the wind are powerful enough, and so are the technologies to harvest their energy. However, possibilities to store renewable energy (sustainably, cost-effectively) are lacking; Long-Duration Electricity Storage (LDES) is ‘’the missing link’’ in the energy transition.

It is Elestor’s mission to cut the cost of electricity storage. We develop large-scale, cost-effective HBr storage technologies that are carbon neutral and durable, thereby unifying the interests of the planet, people, and business profitability.

Elestor - Facts & Figures

Long Duration Electricity Storage deep tech company

• Winner of several (inter-)national awards

Ultra rapid growth path; Elestor is expanding in every direction

• Passionate team of 50 highly skilled professionals with the ambition to increase towards 100 fte within 1,5 years
• Closed €30M funding round in August 2022

Concrete and very fast-growing international market pull

• Agreements with clients strategically adopting the innovative storage technology in commercial settings

Technology & Roadmap

Elestor has been recognised as 1 of the 10 most innovative companies in the Netherlands by both the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. The revolutionary low-cost flow battery systems have received several (inter)national awards in recognition of the ability to reduce the cost of storing electricity to an absolute minimum. For more understanding, feel free to visit Elestor's website. Here you'll find more about the underlying fundamentals and the triple cost reduction strategy, making Elestor’s solution unique on the world stage. Elestor is backed by a €30 million investment and is now ready to implement an ultra-rapid growth strategy to accelerate the commercialisation and operationalization of its proven hydrogen bromine flow battery technology. The segment is expected to represent a market potential of approximately €20 billion by 2025. The international market pull is already concrete and very fast growing!

People & Growth

At Elestor you will be in the middle of genuinely unprecedented developments, made possible by an international group of researchers and engineers of remarkable talent and diversity. In future years, the company will expand literally in every direction. In anticipation of this steep growth, Elestor will look forward to meeting sincere, thoughtful, and entrepreneurial individuals feeling energized to empower necessary change: towards a 100% clean electricity supply. Elestor is an equal opportunities employer: We believe diversity aids creativity and innovation, so whatever your race, colour, nationality, national or ethnic origin, sex, gender, marital status, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability, you are welcome to join our ranks. We actively promote inclusion and we abhor discrimination. We treat all our employees, contractors, workers, job applicants, suppliers, clients and everyone else with respect.

Position

As HSE & Permit Officer, you will find yourself in a front-end and pioneering environment where you will go where no one has before. You will be dealing with HSE aspects in a genuinely innovative field, working on a new class of large-scale process installations for energy storage. As HSE & Permit Officer, you are ultimately responsible for owning all permit-related matters and strengthening Elestor's safety culture by leading HSE compliance and improvement programs.

The HSE & Permit Officer improves Elestor's safe working methods by implementing industry best practices across the company (test- and large-scale installations, laboratory, and production). You will formulate, instruct, educate, and ensure everything involving safety (e.g., tools, personal protective equipment, procedures) is managed. While doing so, you are supporting a high-tech manufacturing company in its hyper-growth and becoming a world leader in long-duration energy storage.

Elestor's HSE & Permit Officer reports to the Team Leader of Systems Engineering (but is connected with every corner of the organization!). The role of HSE & Permit Officer provides the opportunity to deepen your skills and challenge your abilities to lead and deal with true ownership. For those who are motivated, there are plenty of opportunities within the growing Elestor organization (e.g., Compliance Officer, Project Manager, HSE Team Leader).

Tasks and responsibilities

• Responsible for the development and implementation of internal HSE procedures
• Coordinate the Elestor HSE team to implement the HSE improvement agenda
• Lead risk assessments with expert advice on HSE matters
• Train staff for HSE-related matters
• Responsible for permit applications
• Responsible for a thoughtful approach concerning permit related matters
• Responsbile for timely implementation of permit related actions (e.g., applications, safety studies (QRA, ATEX), documentations, compliance)
• Support to Elestor clients for HSE and permit-related matters
• Coordinate standardization of PPE and Emergency
• Response across all areas (installations, laboratory, production)
• Coordinate internal Near Miss & Incident reporting and follow-up
• Lead incident investigations (personal and process safety)

Profile

The ideal candidate is organizationally sensitive and can work with a broad range of experts (scientists, engineers, technicians, operators). You thrive effortlessly in the Elestor culture (positive mindset, agile, and proactive) but are uncompromisable in personal and process safety. You combine good interpersonal communication skills, tact, and persistence to implement (long-duration) continuous improvement programs. You lead by example, and it's your ambition to bring Elestor to a world-class level for Health, Safety, and Environment!

Education, skills and experience

• Minimum of 5 working experience implementing HSE policies in a company working with chemicals or industrial gases
  - Or 5 years of relevant working experience in a comparable industry (with high norms regarding safety)
• Thorough understanding of scope and application procedures regarding the environmental permits as well as permitting procedures in other countries
• Experience working with BRZO / Seveso III framework Experience with ATEX
• Fluent in Dutch (written) and English (oral, written)
• BSc. or MSc. in environment studies, chemistry or chemical/process engineering is a plus
• Nice-to-haves:
  - MVK or HVK certification is a big plus
  - Experience leading internal audits
  - Experience leading incident investigations
  - Experience with (and trained at) emergency response and BHV
  - Experience with HSE in laboratory or manufacturing environment
  - Experience with QRA risk modelling
• An entrepreneurial mindset

Our offer

Elestor offers an open, action-oriented and exciting working environment in a diverse and international team of highly skilled professionals. The company has a flat management structure and offers many opportunities to excel and grow.

Terms of employment are competitive and include participation in a Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) program. When we succeed, we all benefit. Especially in caring for what we share the most: a healthy planet.