Senior Specialist-Paralegal (OHS)

Overview

The OHS Paralegal supports Fresenius Medical Care's occupational health and safety legal and compliance programme for the assigned region (currently Germany), providing coordination, drafting, reporting and administrative execution under the direction of regional OHS legal and compliance leadership.

What you'll do

• Support drafting, amendment and harmonization of OHS management processes, procedures and systems for the assigned region's entities, aligned with applicable local occupational health and safety legislation.
• Coordinate review and update cycles for regional OHS policies and procedures, escalating substantive legal or regulatory interpretation questions to OHS leadership.
• Maintain documentation and version control for regional OHS policy materials.
• Support coordination with local employee representative bodies (e.g. works councils) on health and safety matters, preparing briefing materials and tracking consultation and agreement processes under attorney/HR direction.
• Support coordination with local statutory accident insurance, regulatory bodies and labour inspectorates, including reporting and documentation obligations.
• Track local regulatory deadlines and filing/reporting obligations relevant to OHS compliance.
• Administer regular reporting of OHS KPIs for the assigned region's entities, compiling data and preparing materials to support OHS standards and target-setting.
• Support the maintenance and continuous improvement of the digital incident reporting tool, including data accuracy checks, user support and adoption tracking.
• Support automation initiatives and exploration of digital solutions for OHS reporting and analytics, coordinating with IT and relevant vendors.
• Support regular data, risk and impact analysis for regional OHS matters, compiling findings for review by OHS leadership.
• Track and coordinate remediation action items arising from OHS risk and incident analysis, following up with responsible stakeholders on completion.
• Support development of OHS training materials and training concepts under the direction of OHS leadership.
• Maintain OHS knowledge management resources and documentation for internal reference.
• Manage significant regional OHS process and reporting workstreams with limited oversight from OHS leadership; coach and delegate work to more junior paralegals and support staff.
• Make decisions on complex, sometimes ambiguous coordination and process matters; escalate matters requiring legal interpretation of local OHS regulatory obligations or works council co-determination questions to OHS leadership.
• Advise OHS leadership on process and operational improvements of significance (e.g. KPI reporting design, incident tool functionality, works council briefing materials).
• Represent the OHS function in cross-functional coordination relevant to the assigned region's entities.
• Improve existing OHS management processes and reporting methods.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree with approximately 8-12 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years, including substantial experience in EHS/OHS compliance administration, legal operations, or a comparable regulatory-support function.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong drafting, coordination and project-management skills; experience supporting policy harmonization projects.
• High attention to detail, discretion and ability to manage confidential or sensitive information.

Nice to have

• Exposure to the employment and OHS law of the supported region.
• Working knowledge of the OHS regulatory framework and employee representative/works council consultation processes applicable to the supported region.
• Experience with digital incident reporting and EHS management systems and data analytics tools.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Hybrid work setup.