HSEQ Manager

DP World; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DP World is seeking an experienced HSEQ Manager to deliver the HSEQ strategy across Europe’s ports and terminals. You will work with leadership, HSE professionals, operations and engineering to drive consistent safety, quality and environmental practices across multiple countries, with ~30% travel.

You will lead audits, investigations and regional standards development, while coaching leaders to strengthen accountability and a positive safety culture across the network.

Qualifications

• Extensive HSEQ experience in high-risk operations.
• Experience across ports, terminals, logistics, or heavy industry.
• Proven experience managing HSEQ across multiple sites or regions.
• Strong knowledge of risk management, incident investigations and controls.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistent implementation of HSEQ strategy across European ports/terminals.
• Champion DP World’s culture, values and HSE expectations.
• Lead by example to foster HSE ownership among leaders and staff.
• Coordinate incident investigations and share lessons regionally.
• Advise leadership on operational risks and critical controls.
• Lead audits, assurance activities and closure of actions.
• Develop regional standards and best practices with cross-functional teams.
• Support training and capability-building across terminal teams.
• Coach leaders to strengthen safety culture.

Skills

HSEQ management

Stakeholder management

Incident investigation

Audits & risk assessments

Education

HSE or related degree

NEBOSH / IOSH qualification

Job description

Location: United Kingdom, Belgium or The Netherlands

Are you ready to shape safety, quality and environmental excellence across a diverse portfolio of European ports and terminals? Join DP World and play a key role in driving regional standards, influencing all levels in the business, and championing a culture where safety is embedded in everything that we do.

Travel: Approximately 30% across DP World's European Ports & Terminals network

About The Role

As HSEQ Manager, you will support the delivery of DP World's HSEQ strategy across Ports & Terminals operations throughout Europe. Working closely with terminal leadership teams, HSE professionals, Operations and Engineering colleagues, you will provide expert guidance, drive continuous improvement, and help create a consistent approach to health, safety, quality and environmental management across multiple countries. The role offers significant regional exposure and approximately 30% travel across our European locations.

How You Will Contribute

• Drive the consistent implementation of DP World's HSEQ strategy, standards, minimum requirements and improvement initiatives across a portfolio of European ports and terminals.


• The HSEQ Manager will play a key role in championing DP World’s culture, values and HSE expectations.


• Lead by example and positively influence leaders, employees and contractors to demonstrate strong HSE ownership.


• Coordinate and support incident investigations, ensuring root causes are identified and lessons learned are shared across the region.


• Provide expert HSEQ advice to terminal leadership teams on operational risks, critical controls and regulatory compliance.


• Lead and support audits, assessments and assurance activities, driving timely closure of actions and effective improvements.


• Partner with Operations, Engineering and site HSEQ teams to develop practical, consistent regional standards and best practices.


• Constructively challenge behaviours and practices that do not align with DP World expectations.


• Analyze HSE trends and performance data to identify risks, opportunities and improvement priorities.


• Facilitate regional working groups and cross-functional projects focused on improving HSEQ performance and operational excellence.


• Coach, influence and support operational leaders to strengthen accountability, engagement and a positive safety culture.


• Deliver training, mentoring and capability-building initiatives across terminal teams.

What You Will Bring

• Significant HSEQ experience gained within a high-risk operational environment.


• Experience in ports, terminals, logistics, shipping, manufacturing, heavy industry, infrastructure, energy or a similar sector.


• Proven experience supporting or managing HSEQ across multiple sites, regions or countries.


• Strong knowledge of operational risk management, incident investigation and critical controls.


• Experience conducting audits, assurance reviews and risk assessments.


• A degree in HSE, Engineering, Environmental Management, Risk Management or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.


• A recognised HSE qualification such as NEBOSH, IOSH or equivalent professional certification.


• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge effectively within a matrix and multinational environment.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 120,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to‑end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.