EHS Operations Specialist, Austria / Switzerland region

What To Expect
Tesla is seeking an ambitious EHS Specialist - Associate to support our growing network of Tesla Sales, Services, Deliveries and Body shops.

The EHS Specialist - Associate reports to the EHS Regional Leader. This position will require regional and international travel, within Central and/or Eastern Europe. The role requires to adapt to market expansion needs as the business is growing.

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 a systems-level problem solving.

The focus is achieving compliance and risk control within the company’s and regulatory agencies’ standards in environmental, health and safety.

Candidate must work well on both self-initiated projects and those driven by stakeholders. He or she appreciates an environment where superior work is encouraged, noticed and rewarded.

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 European work regulations, and requirements.

Excellent written and verbal language skills in English and the local language of the base country;

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 50% of the time in the regional area

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