EU Safety Manager

Job Purpose

The Europe Safety Manager will ensure the compliance of health and safety laws in the workplace. By developing and executing health and safety plans, enforce policies, assess risks, and promote a culture of safety. The role is to create a safe work environment and minimize hazards to protect employees from occupational risks.

The Safety Manager is responsible for developing and implementing health and safety plans, enforcing policies, and evaluating practices and facilities to ensure compliance with legal guidelines.

We are looking for a reliable Safety Manager to ensure everyone in the company complies with health and safety laws. You will also be responsible for establishing policies that will create and maintain a safe workplace.

As a safety manager you must have excellent attention to detail to identify hazards. You will also be able to discover opportunities for improving conditions and execute various safety programs. The ability to communicate guidelines to a multidisciplinary workforce is essential.

Drive the Safety agenda: Works in conjunction with the sites management to drive the Safety agenda incorporating training, incident investigation, culture and staff involvement, administration, insurance compliance, setting and improving standards etc.

Job Responsibilities

• Developing and executing health and safety plans in the workplace according to legal guidelines
• Preparing and enforcing policies to establish a culture of health and safety
• Evaluating practices, procedures and facilities to assess risk and adherence to the law
• Conduct training and presentations for health and safety matters and accident prevention
• Monitor compliance to policies and laws by inspecting employees and operations
• Inspect equipment and machinery to observe possible unsafe conditions
• Investigate accidents or incidents to discover causes and handle worker’s compensation claims
• Recommend solutions to issues, improvement opportunities or new prevention measures
• Report on health and safety awareness, issues and statistic

About you

Availability to travel to of our eleven sites for technical visits.

• +10 years’ experience in Safety (QHSE).
• Strong experience as a Health, Safety and Environment Practitioner preferably within a manufacturing environment.
• Good understanding of risk management.
• Background within the special logistics industry and experience in working with frontline operations.
• Ability to drive initiatives with cross-functional teams.
• Deep understanding of legal health and safety guidelines.
• Ability in producing reports and developing relevant policies.
• Good knowledge of data analysis and risk assessment.
• Excellent organizational and motivational skills.
• Outstanding attention to detail and observation ability.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Valid qualification in occupational health and safety.

We offer

• A competitive salary, a company pension scheme, and other benefits.
• A multi-faceted challenge in a successful, multinational chemical distributor.
• An inspiring working atmosphere in a stable company.
• A collaborative culture where you work closely with a diverse and talented team across Europe.

About us

Because we care, we touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every day. We inspire innovative and sustainable distribution solutions in life and material sciences for the food, pharma, personal care and industrial product formulation markets of the world. Our solutions, carefully sourced and customized to specifications whenever required, are backed by outstanding research & development, customer service, and technical & regulatory support, ensuring that they meet precisely determined needs at every stage of the value chain. Across 43 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia-Pacific, our approximately 4,000 employees go the extra mile day in, day out, to deliver added-value solutions for our customers. In our activities, we embrace the principles of sustainability, designing products, services and processes with these in mind. From formulation to delivery, from ingredient to packing, from supplier to customer, we care about every detail of what we do. Because every detail is in our care.