Safety, Health and Environment Manager

Safety, Health and Environment Manager

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

The Challenge

We are looking for a Safety, Health and Environment (S.H.E.) Manager, with a big passion for safety, health, and biscuits. We offer you the opportunity to join our team and contribute to our mission to bring ‘Happiness with every bite’.

The position entails

The Safety, Health and Environment Manager's mission is to reduce and control industrial risks within the company in order to guarantee the safety and health of employees. Further, the SHE manager is taking care of all environmental aspects related to the plant. The HSE Manager is a member of the management committee and supervises a team of 1 person.

Security and Prevention

• Define the objectives in terms of industrial risk prevention according to the regulatory context (legislative framework, labels, and certifications) and the company objectives.
• Constantly monitor changes in standards and regulations (radaring).
• Develop the Safety Management System (SMS) as ISO45001.
• Provide operational support and guidance to all managers and employees.
• Design and lead internal training actions, to raise awareness of risk prevention among the teams.
• Develop the "safety culture", raise awareness among teams of the HSE approach and compliance with procedures.
• Involve staff in the prevention of risks, of occupational accidents and in improving working conditions.
• Establish prevention programs to reduce incidents, occupational accidents and diseases, and psychosocial risks.
• Drafting, enforcing, and controlling safety rules in the company and at workstations, as well as wearing of personal protective equipment.
• Reporting (LTAR, etc), risk assessments (RI&E), audits, inspections.
• Do daily GEMBA walks to reinforce the culture of safety on the shopfloor.
• Identify, analyze, and prioritize occupational risks by observing employees' working conditions, in order to reduce their impact and propose improvement actions.
• Manage crisis and business continuity situations and the emergency response plan, apply instructions and procedures for fire safety, evacuation, and accidental spills.
• Inform, Alert one's superiors in the event of a risk situation and emergency, and important subjects relating to the safety of goods and people.
• Identify malfunctions and non-conformities and analyze the chain of causes in the event of incidents, accidents, near misses. (Root cause analysis)
• Define and deploy the associated preventive and corrective action plans.

Environment

• Develop the Environmental Management System (EMS) as per ISO14001.
• Provide operational support and guidance to all pilots.
• Welcome, design and lead internal training actions, to raise awareness among internal teams and newcomers.
• Works together with Engineering and Maintenance to reduce energy consumption and water usage.
• Supports different departments in the overall reduction of waste.

Health

• Proactively propose and collaborate on health-related projects for example improving ergonomic conditions.
• Review and monitor the provisions applicable to health and safety management and constantly seek to improve areas for improvement.
• Establish plans and strategies for work systems with a view to reducing health and safety risks, such as recommending appropriate adjustments to machinery and processes.

Regulation

• Ensure the mandatory periodic inspection of the materials and equipment present on the site.
• Welcome and interact with representatives of legal bodies: firefighters, labour inspectorate.
• Chair the “works council SHE committee”.

Management and Strategy

• Define the roadmap (Define the indicators; Analyze risks; Develop an action plan).
• Managing your teams.
• Conduct a training and skills development policy.
• Ensure their versatility and/or repositioning.
• Lead, manage and motivate your management teams with the objective of initiative, autonomy, responsibility and performance.

What do you bring?

• With a higher education (General Engineer/QSE Master's degree, etc.), you have proven experience as an HSE Manager, Project Manager, Production Manager, in an industrial context with high stakes related to safety and environmental issues.
• Both a man or woman in the field and an actor of change, you have been able to develop the qualities of a project manager and assert yourself in the managerial function. You have a real appetite for subjects related to the environment and CSR.
• With real leadership, you will be recognized internally and externally for your rigor and your high standards in your field. You will be able to establish yourself as a real force for proposals to promote an HSE culture, and a global CSR approach, within our company.
• Professional Dutch and English is required.

What we offer

Working for pladis means challenging jobs, career opportunities and an inspiring environment that allow you to enhance your personal development. pladis recognizes that the on-going success of the company depends on the continued development and engagement of our employees and pursues a fair and competitive remuneration policy, recognizing individual and team competencies and performance.

A few of our benefits:

• Fixed term employment (12 months) with possibility of a permanent contract.
• Development opportunities through our pladis Academy & other training programs.
• A competitive salary.
• Fulltime employment (37.5 hours per week).
• 34 holidays (based on fulltime).
• Pension in pension fund ‘Zoetwaren’.
• Discounts on health insurance, gym memberships, bikes etc.
• Biscuits, chocolate and other snacks from our personnel store.
• The best colleagues in an informal working environment.

Who are we?

Koninklijke Verkade, founded in 1886, with amazing brands like Verkade en Sultana, is part of pladis since 2016. pladis is one of the world's leading snacking companies. We are the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. A worldwide community with 16,000 colleagues around the world. Each of us brings our experience in happiness. Each of us is unique, but we find each other as a family of bakers and chocolatiers, hardworking, with pride and purpose. After all these years we believe that biscuits and chocolate bring people together. We are pladis. We bake Happiness. Happiness with every bite.

pladis succeeds because of people like you. People who wake up in the morning excited to get to work. Who believe in themselves and their potential. Who want to grow as part of a global community of like-minded colleagues.

pladis colleagues care deeply about being the best. About winning, staying the course and never giving up. Whichever part of the world we’re in, whatever our role. Whether we’re baking, working in HR, finance, marketing or many other areas – we win as one pladis team.

And while we’re all unique, we share something in common. It’s the code by which we live and work. We call it our ‘Winning Traits & Behaviours’: Purpose Led, Agile, Collaborative, Positive and Resilient. Five aspects of pladis life that define who we are, how we interact and get things done.

If pladis sounds like the place where you can thrive and help write the next chapter in our growth story, then check out opportunities around the world and follow us for the latest information from our teams.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe – and this diversity is our great strength.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.

• All applications will be treated with confidentiality. Third Party or Recruitment Agencies are not welcomed.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

About Us

pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to much loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake and chocolate.

Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of our 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 bakeries across 11 countries and is united by our purpose: to ‘bring happiness with every bite’.

As a responsible business delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.