Safety Manager

innocent has always wanted to be a leader, not a follower, on Health & Safety and we pride ourselves in doing business differently. We understand and take responsibility for every social and environmental impact that our business has on the world around us, always striving to leave things better than we find them. This includes taking responsibility for every impact that our operations will have on our employees and those that are affected by them.

With the opening of the first ever innocent-owned factory, we want to be known as “The Earth’s Favourite Little Healthy Drinks Factory” which entails setting ambitious and inspiring targets setting us apart from how a factory is typically operated. This factory produces more than 400 million bottles a year and has 260 employees working in a 24/7 operations.

So, what does this role entail?

Reporting to the QSE Lead, the Safety Manager will develop and implement innocent’s ambitious safety and health strategy that will enable us to ensure a safety culture and a safe place to work. We create Safety and Health programmes that, in turn, develop into industry leading initiatives. To do this, the Safety manager will need to challenge the status quo and drive behaviour change both internally and externally, across the entire supply chain and be a strategic thinker and innovator. As the Site Safety Officer, this role will maintain a level of independence and objectivity with respect to driving the safety-first agenda on site and will act with independence when required. Any compliance or incident concerns will be escalated directly to the Site Director. The first focus is on Safety but there is an opportunity to have Environment & sustainability as part of the scope of this role.  

The successful candidate will have a genuine passion for the innocent brand, sustainability, and product quality in line with our B Corp business principles and meets the following requirements:

Knowledge and experience:

• Significant experience (7+ years) working in a senior Safety and Sustainability role for an FMCG company;

• In depth knowledge and experience in design and implementation of safety standards, procedures and systems in a manufacturing environment;

• In depth knowledge of safety legislation and experience in communication with authorities;

• Knowledge of environmental legislation and experience in communication with authorities would be a pre;

• Experience of developing and implementing a positive safety culture;

• Experience managing safety targets including developing targets, implementing procedures to manage, periodic reporting, translating results into recommendations, implementation of recommendations and quantifying savings and benefits;

• Training experience on topics relevant to health & safety;

• Fluent in Dutch and English;

• Bachelor thinking level and relevant Health and Safety qualification: HVK (or similar).

Competences:

• Leadership – able to lead and inspire a team;

• Proven strategic influencing and innovation skills;

• Project management skills;

• Strong communication skills in Dutch and English;

• Stakeholder management – ability to engage at all levels in the business;

• Change management.