Manager EHS & Maintenance

Purpose

The Manager EHS & Maintenance ensures a safe, compliant, reliable and sustainable industrial site. The position has overall responsibility for EHS, production and facility maintenance, technical investments, and leadership of the associated teams.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with French legislation, corporate requirements and applicable EHS and energy management systems.
• Lead occupational safety, environmental protection, ergonomics, fire prevention and emergency preparedness.
• Manage risk assessments, incident investigations, regulatory inspections, audits and corrective actions.
• Coordinate contractor safety and compliance.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of ISO 50001.
• Drive the TMS Pro ergonomics programme.
• Develop and execute the site sustainability roadmap, including energy efficiency, emissions, waste, water and resource consumption.
• Establish measurable objectives, reliable performance data and transparent reporting.

• Lead all production and facility maintenance activities.
• Ensure the availability, reliability, safety and compliance of production machinery, buildings, utilities and technical infrastructure.
• Develop preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance processes.
• Improve maintenance planning, equipment history, spare-parts management and CMMS/GMAO utilisation.
• Reduce recurring failures through structured root-cause analysis and technical improvement plans.
• Manage external maintenance providers, technical contractors and equipment suppliers.
• Define and manage the multi-year investment roadmap for buildings and central machines.
• Prepare investment proposals and business cases based on safety, compliance, reliability, quality, capacity, energy and business-continuity requirements.
• Lead investment projects from specification and supplier selection through installation, commissioning and final acceptance.
• Ensure that new and modified equipment meets requirements for safety, performance, maintainability, energy efficiency and technical documentation.
• Manage maintenance and investment budgets.

• Lead and develop the EHS, production maintenance and facility maintenance teams.
• Establish clear responsibilities, priorities, performance expectations and operating routines.
• Build the technical and leadership capabilities of the organisation.
• Promote a strong safety culture, disciplined execution and continuous improvement.
• Ensure effective cooperation with Production, Industrial Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Finance and HR.
• Balance immediate operational requirements with long-term technical risks and strategic priorities.
• Communicate risks, performance, investment needs and decision proposals clearly to plant management.
• Ensure ownership and timely completion of agreed actions.

Your Qualifications

• Experienced technical manager from an industrial production environment.
• Proven leadership of maintenance, EHS or multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Strong production-maintenance background combined with practical EHS and regulatory competence.
• Experience in technical investment planning and project execution.
• Ideally experienced in ISO 50001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, CMMS/GMAO, ergonomics and sustainability projects.
• Hands-on, structured and credible on the shopfloor.
• Professional French and working English.

• Implementation or management of ISO 50001.
• Experience with ISO 14001, ISO 45001 or EMAS.
• Experience as an Energy Coordinator or with industrial energy-performance projects.
• Practical experience with ergonomic-risk-reduction programmes, CARSAT or TMS Pro.
• Implementation or substantial improvement of a CMMS/GMAO.
• Knowledge of machine conformity, lockout and tagout, fire protection and regulated technical inspections.
• Experience with reliability improvement, preventive-maintenance optimisation or TPM.
• Experience managing technically ageing machinery and defining replacement or retrofit strategies.
• Experience planning and executing machinery or building investments.
• Experience with sustainability roadmaps, carbon reduction, waste reduction, water management or environmental reporting.
• Experience working with insurers or risk-engineering organisations on industrial loss-prevention programmes.
• Knowledge of Lean, 8D, PDCA, FMEA, criticality analysis or comparable methods.

• Visible, credible and engaged on the shopfloor.
• Strong technical judgement combined with an uncompromising approach to safety and compliance.
• Pragmatic, structured and action-oriented.
• Able to distinguish urgent operational issues from strategically important technical risks.
• Capable of challenging unsafe, unreliable or economically weak solutions.
• Strong discipline in planning, prioritisation and action closure.
• Able to lead technical experts while maintaining clear accountability.
• Comfortable balancing safety, compliance, machine availability, production needs, investment constraints and cost.
• Able to communicate technical risks and investment needs clearly to management.
• Motivated by measurable operational improvement rather than administrative compliance alone.