Senior Quality & Continuous Improvement Specialist

You see opportunities where others see processes. At Van Oord, you help shape a stronger quality culture across projects, teams and countries. In this role, you improve the way we work every day through smarter standards, better collaboration and continuous improvement that creates lasting impact.

The position

As a Senior Quality & Continuous Improvement Specialist, you play a key role in strengthening our integrated, ISO based management system and driving our High Five for Quality programme. You work closely with teams across the organisation to improve processes, ensure compliance and help build a strong quality culture.

Your impact

As a Senior Quality & Continuous Improvement Specialist, you make a real difference within our organization. You are the driving force behind the success of our quality program. With your passion, determination, and perseverance, you ensure continuous improvement and uphold the highest standards. You connect stakeholders, create buy-in, and turn challenges into opportunities. Thanks to your vision and leadership, quality becomes not just a goal, but a culture.

Your main responsibilities:

• Drive and further develop the High Five for Quality programme.
• Manage, maintain and enhance our ISO-certified management system.
• Lead internal audits, management reviews and improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with and coach teams to embed quality in daily operations.

Your workplace

You will be part of a small, specialised team that approaches quality from a management system perspective. Our activities include auditing, incident management and the use of data and analyses for reporting to senior management. Collaboration, expertise and team spirit are central to our work.

About you

You are passionate about quality, standardisation and continuous improvement. With strong communication skills and a structured mindset, you know how to inspire others and bring quality performance to the next level.

You also bring:

• Experience with ISO standards and management system processes.
• A proactive, people-oriented and structured working style.
• Strong project management and communication skills (PMP, IPMA or similar).
• Preferably experience in construction, contracting or offshore energy.

We offer

Working in an international, highly demanding and dynamic organisation, with the possibility to truly have impact on our business, people and environment. We offer a complete package with excellent secondary employment benefits. The package includes among other things:

• A salary that matches your responsibilities and experience;
• 32 leave days of which a max. of 7 days can be appointed as collective leave days;
• Pension scheme;
• Variable bonus;
• Extensive learning and (personal) development possibilities;
• Travel allowance;
• Flexible working hours.