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EHS Coordinator / Specialist (Contractor to Staff after 12 months)
📍 Locations: Děčín, Litvínov and Brno, Czech Republic
📄 Engagement: Employment through agency
📅 Duration: 12 months; then conversion to employment with Air Products
⏱️ Working arrangement: Full-time equivalent
✈️ Travel: Regular travel between sites in the Czech Republic
🏭 Business area: Industrial Gases, Air Products Czech Republic
Help us maintain safe, compliant and responsible operations!
We are looking for an experienced Environment, Health and Safety Coordinator / Specialist to provide EHS services across Air Products sites in the Czech Republic.
Working under the functional direction of the Central Europe EHS Manager, you will support the implementation of our EHS Management System and compliance with Czech occupational health and safety, fire protection and environmental legislation. You will work across industrial gas facilities, customer installations and other operational locations, partnering with site managers, supervisors and frontline teams.
As our EHS Coordinator / Specialist (Contractor), you will
- Prepare and update occupational risk assessments, workplace instructions, machine instructions and statutory OHS documentation.
- Monitor compliance with Czech OHS, fire protection and environmental requirements, maintaining legal registers and compliance calendars.
- Facilitate job-hazard and high-risk activity assessments, including work involving permits, lockout/tagout, confined spaces, work at height, hot work, ATEX and contractor safety.
- Conduct site inspections, safety tours and workplace checks, producing clear reports and tracking corrective actions to completion.
- Support investigations into incidents, near misses and occupational illnesses, including root-cause analysis and legally required accident documentation.
- Deliver induction and periodic OHS training, safety briefings and behavioural safety activities, while maintaining accurate training records.
- Support environmental compliance activities covering waste, emissions, wastewater, permit conditions and environmental reporting.
- Participate in audits, projects, construction activities, site start-ups and management-of-change processes.
What you will bring
✅ Required
- A degree in occupational safety, environmental protection, engineering or a related discipline.
- A qualification authorising you to perform OHS services under Czech regulations at specialist level or higher.
- At least three years of EHS experience in a high-hazard environment, such as chemicals, industrial gases, oil and gas, energy or a comparable industry.
- Strong working knowledge of Czech OHS, fire protection and environmental legislation.
- Experience conducting occupational risk assessments and delivering OHS training.
- Written and spoken Czech and English.
- A valid category B driving licence and availability to travel regularly between sites.
- The ability to work independently, organise priorities and deliver agreed outputs within deadlines.
➕ Preferred
- Experience working with ISO 45001 or ISO 14001, supported by an internal or lead auditor qualification.
- Knowledge of pressure equipment, ADR, ATEX, cryogenic operations or asphyxiation hazards.
- Training in incident investigation or root-cause analysis methods, such as TapRooT, 5 Whys or ICAM.
- A fire protection or first-aid instructor qualification.
- Previous consultancy or contractor experience within a multinational organisation.
What this assignment offers
- A practical, visible EHS role across a varied network of industrial operations.
- Collaboration with operational, engineering, maintenance, distribution and project teams.
- Exposure to high-hazard industry standards and established global EHS processes.
- The opportunity to influence risk reduction, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement across multiple Czech sites.
Pay Transparency Statement
We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective, role related criteria such as experience, education, skills and assessed competencies.
Each role has an established pay range. Individual offers are determined within this range. The applicable pay range will be shared with you during the introductory call.
👉 How to apply
To get back to you on your application in a compliant, fast, and efficient way, we look forward to receiving your application via the APPLY option on our website or the job board where this role is posted.
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest; however, only those applicants who are being considered for an interview, or are currently employed by Air Products, will be contacted.
Please note that this vacancy will remain advertised until the recruitment process is completed and an offer is made to the selected candidate. Until then, the job advertisement may be automatically refreshed or re-posted on the platforms where it was originally published.
You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status.
At Air Products, we work in an environment where inclusion is our culture and each person knows they belong and matter.
For more information, visit https://www.airproducts.com or follow us on social media.
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Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.
