POSTED: 16th June 2026
STARTING DATE: As soon as possible
PART TIME 3 DAYS PER WEEK, ROTTERDAM
MISSION TO METRICS
The Ocean Cleanup is seeking a dynamic and motivated individual to join our team as a Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) Jr Associate. This role offers an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to support the implementation and maintenance of QHSE initiatives across our organization.
ASSIGNMENT
We are seeking a proactive and passionate QHSE Jr Associate to support our QHSE disciplines and help elevate our standards across the team. In this role, you’ll work cross-functionally to assist with maintaining and improving our quality, health, safety, and environmental (QHSE) management systems and to strengthen compliance per ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and Chain of Custody standards.
RESPONSIBILITIES
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
“Even if you don’t meet every professional qualification listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if you believe you have the right skills, experience, and motivation to contribute to our mission. We recognize that talent and potential come in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and unconventional career paths. If you’re passionate about the work we do and confident in your ability to make an impact, don’t hesitate to submit your application—we’d love to hear from you”
STARTING DATE: As soon as possible
PART TIME 3 DAYS PER WEEK, ROTTERDAM
MISSION TO METRICS
The Ocean Cleanup is seeking a dynamic and motivated individual to join our team as a Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) Jr Associate. This role offers an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to support the implementation and maintenance of QHSE initiatives across our organization.
ASSIGNMENT
We are seeking a proactive and passionate QHSE Jr Associate to support our QHSE disciplines and help elevate our standards across the team. In this role, you’ll work cross-functionally to assist with maintaining and improving our quality, health, safety, and environmental (QHSE) management systems and to strengthen compliance per ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and Chain of Custody standards.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Developing the new procedures resulting from the New Assurance Framework (Quality Management System) of The Ocean Cleanup, ensuring proper training completion.
- Support the establishment of Lessons Learned/CAPA and Document Control processes, safeguarding up-to-date QHSE documentation, records, and reports regarding risk assessments, incidents, complaints, audits, and corrective/preventive actions.
- Ensuring quality standards for QHSE related activities - assisting in audits, follow-ups, and action tracking to help maintain compliance
- QHSE training awareness: supporting the onboarding crew members complete relevant QHSE trainings, and keep materials/updates current.
- Support incident/lessons learned/CAPA activities and migrate content from multiple repositories into a single-source-of-truth for traceability.
- Coordinate the release/implementation of The Ocean Cleanup Lessons Learned and support QMS documentation (processes/forms), including version control and approvals.
- Co-pilot process automation initiatives and help standardize, harmonize, and safeguard management-of-change activities.
- Help create and maintain flowcharts for key processes to strengthen understanding and documentation consistency.
- Provide ongoing support to the QHSE Department in day-to-day activities and expected reporting requirements (newsletter, dashboards, inbox, purchase orders)
“Even if you don’t meet every professional qualification listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if you believe you have the right skills, experience, and motivation to contribute to our mission. We recognize that talent and potential come in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and unconventional career paths. If you’re passionate about the work we do and confident in your ability to make an impact, don’t hesitate to submit your application—we’d love to hear from you”
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Program Management or Engineering
- Between 1-2 years of relevant work experience in a matrix organization, facilitating quality assurance, quality control in production or manufacturing, health, and safety, or compliance management. Would be a plus.
- Experience with various project management methods involving delivering technological products and operations offshore/onshore/
- Experienced in Chain of Custody applications is a plus.
- Able to perform well in a fast-paced, dynamic, and challenging environment.
- Ability to venture outside well-traveled paths.
- Result-driven and self-motivated, also in the face of adversity and setbacks
- Excellent communication skills.
- Intrinsic motivation to work on our ambitious and meaningful mission.
- Good knowledge of QHSE policies, ISO Standards for integrated management systems (ISO 9001/45001/14001), legislation, and sector standards.
- Good command of English (written and spoken). Dutch is an advantage.
- Experienced in working in a global environment and dealing with cultural differences.
- Advanced skills in ICT Office applications.
- Starting date: as soon as possible
- Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Conducting a pre-employment check may be part of this recruitment process.
- At The Ocean Cleanup, we believe we are stronger together, while harnessing the uniqueness each individual brings. That is why we take a fair, equal opportunity, and transparent approach to hiring and welcome special needs requests.