Description
Job Summary:
Hamelin Brands is seeking an Occupational Safety and Health Manager to lead initiatives at its Flaçà plant, managing the prevention plan, audits, and certifications with a focus on continuous improvement.
Key Highlights:
1. Lead occupational safety and health at the production plant.
2. Professional development within the QHSE department.
3. Strategic projects and process development.
Hamelin Brands is a French family-owned company founded in 1864 and a leader in manufacturing school and office supplies.
From Flaçà (Girona), the Oxford brand is primarily produced — a leading European brand of notebooks and pads, synonymous with top-tier quality and defining how this category evolves into the future. We love innovation!
Currently, Hamelin Brands’ Flaçà (Girona) site requires an Occupational Safety and Health Manager within the QHSE Department to lead the Group’s Occupational Safety and Health initiative at its Flaçà production plant.
The selected candidate will assess and manage the Occupational Safety and Health Prevention Plan for the Flaçà plant, leading projects within Hamelin Brands Group’s Integrated Occupational Safety and Health Management System.
Through developing and implementing new procedures and improvement processes, the candidate will also lead safety audits, ISO certifications, coordination of health surveillance, delivery of training sessions, coordination and management of accidents, tracking indicators, and maintaining system certifications such as PFC, Eco-label, and FSC.
This position offers an attractive career path, with opportunities to take on new challenges within the local QHSE Department and across the Group through strategic and process-development projects.
Therefore, we seek a highly motivated, proactive individual capable of leading projects.
**Responsibilities:**
* Establish and manage the application of occupational safety and health regulations across all organizational processes and departments, prevention plans, and lead their implementation and monitoring.
* Maintain the Integrated Management System (IMS) up-to-date in accordance with applicable regulations and aligned with Hamelin Brands Group requirements.
* Rigorous monitoring of the monthly preventive planning and continuous improvement of process safety. Record and track proposed Corrective, Preventive, and Improvement Actions. Identify all organizational risks and keep them updated.
* Develop a list of occupational safety and health objectives along with a monitoring program to achieve them.
* Manage and coordinate occupational safety and health within the company (health surveillance, specific prevention and safety training, drills, analysis of workplace accidents, emergency teams, provision of PPE and uniforms).
* Manage the CAE platform across its full traceability for external personnel or subcontractors.
* Maintain sustainability certifications such as PEPF, FSC, Eco-label, among others.
* Comply with, respect, and enforce the company’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Criminal Compliance Policy.
* Contribute to fulfilling the chain-of-custody requirements and to achieving corporate and company environmental objectives.
Our motto is “THINK SAFETY, WORK SAFELY”. With the ambitious goal of reaching zero accidents at the Flaçà plant by 2030.
**Conditions:**
* Permanent contract.
* Working hours: flexible intensive shift.
* Salary commensurate with candidate’s experience.
* Additional benefits including flexible compensation, etc. \+ company parking.
* Opportunities for growth and development within a dynamic environment and multinational company.
* Residence: mandatory within Girona Province. The job location is Flaçà (Girona).
* Education: Master’s Degree in Occupational Risk Prevention (mandatory qualification); holding all three specializations — Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, and Ergonomics & Applied Psychosociology — is highly desirable.
* Knowledge: required experience with ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 standards. Experience with ISO 14001 is also highly valued. Prior experience in internal and external audits is essential.
* Industrial environment experience is highly valued.
* Office software proficiency: Excel and basic IT tools (email, etc.) are required.
* Languages: minimum fluency in Spanish and English (for communication with Hamelin Brands Group).
* Experience: minimum 3 years’ experience in the responsibilities outlined in this vacancy.
* Skills: communication, rigor, firmness, empathy, autonomy/proactivity, planning, leadership, and teamwork ability.