Onsite HSE Director

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About the role

  • HSE Director overseeing health, safety, and environmental governance at industrial battery manufacturing site. Ensuring compliance with regulations and protecting employees and the environment.

Responsibilities

  • Leads governance, performance, and continuous improvement of Health, Safety & Environment at a battery manufacturing industrial site classified SEVESO
  • Ensures compliance with French and European regulations (ICPE, SEVESO, French Labour Code, IED, ADR)
  • Prevents major accidents
  • Protects employees, contractors, local communities, and the environment
  • Owner of the site’s HSE management system
  • Primary point of contact for authorities
  • Authority to stop hazardous activities
  • Proposes necessary investments and implements corrective actions
  • Full responsibility for the site’s HSE regulatory compliance
  • Manages Upper-Tier SEVESO compliance and the Safety Management System
  • Prepares and updates the Safety Report, the On-Site Emergency Plan (POI), and the Major Accident Prevention Policy
  • Coordinates emergency exercises and contributes to crisis management
  • Manages ATEX zoning and explosion risk assessments
  • Manages ICPE files and relations with DREAL, the Prefecture, the Water Agency, and the Labour Inspectorate
  • Tracks inspections, action plans, and annual environmental reporting
  • Monitors French extended producer responsibility (REP) obligations (batteries, packaging, WEEE)

Requirements

  • Master’s degree (Bac+5) in engineering or equivalent
  • IPRP registration (DREETS) required
  • 10 years of senior HSE experience in heavy industry
  • Proven experience at an Upper-Tier SEVESO site
  • Knowledge of lead/chemical environments, DREAL inspections, crisis management, and major incident investigations
  • Technical expertise in the French Labour Code and industrial HSE regulations
  • ICPE / SEVESO
  • Industrial hygiene & biological monitoring; IED/BAT; EU Batteries Regulation
  • REP (batteries, packaging, WEEE); ADR; risk analysis methodologies; ISO management systems
  • Fluent in French and English

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package
  • Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications

Job title

HSE Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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