Project HSE Manager

Drive the Health and Safety Scope within our Projects

Are you keen to join a diverse team, running international high-voltage cable projects in large infrastructure settings and contributing to connecting a greener world? Working closely with our global customers, we develop, manufacture, and install efficient, environmentally friendly, and technologically advanced high-voltage cable systems for land, offshore, nearshore, and onshore applications worldwide.

Support the execution of all project Health & Safety related activities

As a Project Health & Safety Manager, you are responsible for the Health & Safety agenda within our customer projects. You will develop and ensure the implementation of Project Health & Safety Plans in accordance with NKT standards as well as applicable rules, regulations, legal frameworks and customer requirements.

This role combines leadership and hands-on work. You will not only manage the Health & Safety effort on projects but also actively contribute to producing, reviewing and ensuring timely submission of all Health & Safety deliverables needed for effective project execution

Your scope spans the full Health & Safety landscape: including participating in and coordinating risk assessments, supporting project planning, conducting Health & Safety inspections and audits, monitoring subcontractor performance, reporting to the customer, and managing interfaces with stakeholders across the entire project organisation.

Regular visits to operations are an essential part of the role whether at installation sites, on board vessels, or at subcontractor facilities ensuring active engagement, compliance and support

Your primary tasks will include:

• Developing, reviewing, approving and submitting all project Health & Safety deliverables (plans, bridging documents, RAMS reviews, emergency plans, HAZID's, audits and reports) in accordance with deadlines
• Monitoring, reporting and record-keeping of Health & Safety risks, non-conformities, KPI's and statistics
• Planning and following up on allocated Health & Safety resources within the project
• Participating in project planning to ensure proactive integration of Health & Safety measures and risk controls
• Conducting and overseeing project Health & Safety audits, both internally and towards subcontractors
• Establishing and monitoring Health & Safety performance and reporting results to the customer
• Coordinating and monitoring subcontractor Health & Safety performance and ensuring alignment with NKT and client requirements
• Leading or supporting Health & Safety incident investigations
• Facilitating workshop sessions to promote organisational learning, share lessons learned and help implement continuous improvement
• Acting as the project Health & Safety interface on designated projects, towards clients, subcontractors, vessel owners and internal departments
• Supporting and coaching the project team and subcontractors in creating a strong safety culture
• Adhoc support on tenders relating to operational insights and actual cost or compliance issues.

Reporting lines

To ensure effective governance and execution, you will:

• Report directly to the Dept. Manager, HSE Projects & Tenders ( Project Performance and deliverables)
• Have a operation (functional) reporting line to the Project Installation Managers (day-to-day coordination and integration into project execution)
• Manage Project Health & Safety Advisors, guiding and coordinating their activities across all work sites

Be a communicative and motivated Health & Safety project manager

Your daily collaboration with the project team, subcontractors and customers requires effective communication and stakeholder management skills. Your motivated, positive, and focused mindset supports genuine engagement within the teams. You adopt a supportive and coaching approach that helps guide the project safely while maintaining high customer satisfaction.

Your profile

You bring solid experience in Health & Safety and ideally have experience of complex technical or construction projects in the critical infrastructure industry. You understand legal, regulatory and contractual requirements and can translate them into clear, actionable documentation.

In addition, your CV includes:

• University degree within Engineering, Health & Safety or Security
• Several years of relevant experience within HSE, preferably from international infrastructure, offshore wind, marine or construction projects.
• Experience interfacing with clients, subcontractors and multidisciplinary internal teams
• Experience conducting Health & Safety audits and leading workshops for learning
• Project management experience in an international context
• Fluent in English and French, both spoken and written
• Authorisation to work in the Netherlands
• (Advantage) Offshore certificates such as GWO, BOSIET/FOET or HUET
• (Advantage) NEBOSH Cert. or NEBOSH Dip. or any industry alternative.

Join us connecting a greener world!

NKT is committed to promoting a diverse organization and a culture where people from different backgrounds can thrive and are inspired to perform at their best. We believe that a diverse organization enables sustainable performance, and that an inclusive and welcoming culture makes for a better place to work.

Health & Safety is a number one priority regardless of where, what and when. In our customer projects the Health & Safety agenda plays a significant role, and as the Project Health & Safety Manager you are the one coordinating all project-related activities within this scope.

Please apply via our website before June 30th. Interviews and recruitment take place continuously. Personality- and capacity tests may be included in the recruitment process.

Please note that due to GDPR regulations, we cannot accept applications via email.

If you have any questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact the hiring manager on Linkedin , Manager, HSE Projects & Tenders. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact our HR Manager, Pieter van den Eijnden on Linkedin.

Be a Connector of the green tomorrow!

About NKT
At the factory in Karlskrona, NKT is designing, developing and manufacturing the high-voltage power cable solutions enabling the transition to renewable energy. Here, you will join a diverse organization at an internationally recognized engineering centre operating one of the most advanced high-voltage test halls, a state-of-the-art cable manufacturing and the NKT Victoria - the most sustainable cable-laying vessel in the offshore industry.

At NKT, we are all Connectors. We connect to develop leading power cable technologies that enable the world's transition to renewable energy - and we stay connected to grow as people and professionals. As a company, NKT connects a greener world with high-quality power cable technology and plays a key role as the world moves towards clean energy. NKT designs, manufactures and installs low-, medium- and high-voltage power cable solutions enabling reliable energy transmission. Since 1891, NKT has innovated the power cable technology, building the infrastructure from the first light bulbs to the megawatts created by renewable energy today.
NKT is headquartered in Denmark, operates from more than 30 countries worldwide, and employs 6,500 people globally. NKT is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and realised a revenue of EUR 3.6 billion in 2025. NKT - We connect a greener world.

Posting Date: 15 May 2026

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