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Environmental Engineer

Date: Dec 19, 2025

Location:

Pernis, ZH, NL

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.

At Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress-developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.

Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.

We don't follow the status quo-we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it. Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.

We invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development-equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.

Your Future Starts Here.

If you're ready to push limits, reimagine what's possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong.

Anything is possible when you imagine everything.

Position Overview

To ensure all plant activities are performed in compliance with HSE policies, standards and regulations by initiating, developing and improving environmental policies, procedures and trainings in order to comply with legal and Company requirements, create awareness amongst employees, increase knowledge and drive a solid HSE culture.

To continuously improve implementation and maintenance of HSE management compliance system. Provides technical expertise to achieve Pernis site and Headquarters goals for HSE performance.

Job Responsibilities

Legal compliance:

• Responsible for keeping environmental reports up to date in compliance with environmental regulations;
• Reports on all environmental issues;
• Keep up-to-date with proposed and actual changes in environmental regulations, so the organization's HSE policies remain current and relevant;
• Executes MRA;
• Initiates research on environmental issues;
• Initiates, defines and outlines internal policy based on legislation;
• Regulatory compliance check;
• Advises management regarding environmental improvements and issues regarding improvement on regulatory compliance;
• Submit environmental permit applications
• Inform proactively to internal and external stakeholders about environmental issues;
• Major contribution to important and long range Hexion goals like Permit to Operate and Energy Transition

Best practices:

• Initiates and executes best practice studies;
• Prioritizes best practice compliance activities.

EHS Performance:

• Identifying risks and areas for improvement;
• Supports incident investigations and analysis of HSE incidents;
• Accountable for registration and documentation;
• Decides importance of relevant data;
• Translates best practice outcomes into policy improvements;
• Monitor and evaluate the organization's overall environmental performance to identify recurring problems and areas for improvements;
• Develop and implement policies and procedures so that the established environmental targets are met.
• EHS metric reporting: weekly/monthly internal reporting in corporate Metric collection system and site KPI scorecard;

Energy covenant:

• Responsible for executing goals which intend to improve the environment from an energy perspective. Responsible for compliance ETS.

Management System:

• Implementation of corporate EHS guidelines and standards;
• Development and improvement of Environmental management (ISO 14001) processes and site environmental procedures;
• Implementation of Environmental management process, metric system;
• Responsible for maintaining environmental (ISO 14001) procedures and legislation in Management System and training.

Competencies

Strategic Focus and Direction:

• Builds relationships with internal partners, contractors, consultants, certification bodies and authorities;

• Understands the site's strategic plan;

• Understands relationship between site plans, team/unit and own role;

• Understands relationship between site, Hexion European Headquarters and authorities;

• Identifies problems in attaining planned goals or work and proposes solutions

Trust and Teamwork:

• Displays correct, professional business etiquette in all interactions;

• Understands that there are different approaches when making decisions and utilizes as appropriate;

• Compiles and presents information in a manner easily understood by others;

• Collaborates to enhance team efforts through personal contributions. Places team success above personal success;

• Communicates directly, honestly, and respectfully to gain cooperation and resolve conflicts with others.

Personal Leadership:

• Evaluates and plans the use of resources to obtain efficiencies wherever possible;

• Accepts responsibility for the consequences of personal actions;

• Acts in a manner consistent with Company's core values;

• Displays a positive attitude and willingness to make the necessary effort to accomplish goals;

• Demonstrates accountability for own work, personal and professional development;

• Recognizes and considers cultural differences in a respectful manner.

Achieve Business Results:

• Accomplishes assignments on time and contributes to continuously improve work flow and - processes;

• Plans, organizes and completes projects and functional work to accomplish goals and assignments;

• Accomplishes expectations and delivers goals and work timely and efficiently;

• Develops solutions to complex problems which comply to authorities demands within Hexion objectives.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master or Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, environmental sciences or equivalent combination of training & experience.

• At least 14 years experience in the chemical industry;

• Is the environmental (regulations) specialist within the company

• Is able to (contribute to) develop new concepts, techniques and standards in the Environmental field

• Should possess leadership, training, presentation, problem solving, and decision making skills;

• Must have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization;

• Should have strong oral and written communication skills in Dutch and English

• Should be persuasive, independent, accurate, creative, diplomatic and a team player

• Must be able to work at high (peak) stress levels