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HSE Manager →
Prevention advisor level 1. Strategic: setting the policy, risk analyses, incident investigation and audits, plus a lot of consultation.
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Work in HSE
Safety on a pharmaceutical site, in the policy and on the floor. What you do depends on your prevention advisor certificate: level 1 sets the policy, level 2 is out on the floor doing inspections and incident investigation.
The roles in this domain
Two roles, split by certification level rather than by job title. That level is what decides which one fits you.
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Where the work happens
Safety in a pharmaceutical environment, from the policy down to the shop floor.
- Policy and strategy
Setting the direction, aligning it with management and making it something the site can actually follow.
- Inspections and incident investigation
Checking that things are done properly, and after an incident working out how it happened and how to prevent it.
- Certification levels
Level 1 and level 2 are genuinely different jobs. The certificate is the real selection criterion, not the title on the vacancy.
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"Nobody reads a policy document on the floor. My job is to make sure they do not have to, because it already matches how they work."
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Life Sciences Consultant
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FAQs
Honest answers to the questions HSE profiles really ask.
- Which certificate do I need?
Prevention advisor level 2, sometimes level 3, for the advisor role. Level 1, the master programme, for the manager role. That level is the real selection criterion, because the job titles in this market all cover the same work.
- Do I need an engineering degree?
No. You reach level 2 either through a bachelor in integral safety, which takes three years, or through the prevention advisor programme, which runs about a year. How you obtained the certificate makes no difference. Engineers do this work too, and so do technicians and foremen who took the course. Where a vacancy asks for specific technical knowledge, you do need that.
- Do I need Life Sciences experience?
Mostly not. Experience from another industry is just as valuable.
- Which additional certificates help?
Safety coordinator A comes up most often, especially where civil works are involved, in pharma or outside it. It is usually a strong plus and sometimes a must, depending on the vacancy. Environmental coordinator A or B is asked for far less often.
- Can I also work on Engineering projects?
Yes. The same field exists in our Engineering competence center, for other industries. The vacancies are kept separate, so if you are open to both it is worth looking at the Engineering pages as well.
The same work outside pharma
Not every project runs on a pharmaceutical site. Our Engineering colleagues place the same profiles in infrastructure, industry and energy. Follow the link to see what is open there.
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Prevention advisors at level 1 and level 2: here you find all the open HSE roles in Life Sciences.