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Confidential opportunity · Energy production · Hauts-de-France
QHSE / HSE manager, food industry(M/F) the QHSE of a site that is starting up
QHSE expert for a new biomass boiler plant running around the clock to serve a food factory: a day job, all of the site's safety and compliance in your hands, with the group's safety network behind you.
New
A site starting up
ICPE
Classified installation
Day
Your schedule
45-55k€
Annual gross · Permanent contract managerial grade
The role in 30 seconds
The essentials,before the detail
What you hold
Own safety · Maintain ICPE compliance · Bring the safety culture to life.
Who you report to
Site director, you are its QHSE expert, with the national safety network in support.
What you need to know
The site runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and your role is a day job: on-call duty, depending on the site's organisation.
Before you read on
Minimum required, to be ticked in full
- At least 5 years of QHSE or industrial HSE experience
- You come from the agri-food industry: hygiene, food safety, product quality
- QHSE / HSE expert or manager: a site's safety owned outright, not awareness-raising
- In a continuous-fire industrial setting: a process running 24 hours a day
- On an ICPE-classified installation: which operating order, which prevention plans, which permits you have been responsible for
Ideal, what puts you ahead
- Ideally: you have already worked across food and energy, in a boiler plant or utilities serving a food factory
- Operations experience, or QHSE experience close to plant control
- An energy background: heating plant, steam, combustion, utilities
- A site, line or certification start-up lived from the inside
Far from the minimum? An open application will serve you better.
The criteria that matter: At least 5 years of QHSE or industrial HSE experience · You come from the agri-food industry: hygiene, food safety, product quality · QHSE / HSE expert or manager: a site's safety owned outright, not awareness-raising.
01 · The company
Confidential assignment
Who is hiring,without its name
An industrial group. Its name is given to you if your profile is shortlisted. Volta Executive runs the search end to end.
New
A site starting up
A biomass boiler plant serving a food factory.
ICPE
Classified installation
Combustion and steam.
Day
Your schedule
A day job, with on-call duty depending on the site's organisation.
5years
Minimum in QHSE
In QHSE or industrial HSE.
02 · The role
QHSE / HSE manager, food industry · permanent contract, managerial status
What you do,in practice
Drive safety
Risk assessment, single risk assessment document, prevention plans, work permits and lockout procedures. You analyse accidents and near misses and you genuinely close the actions.
Maintain ICPE compliance
Operating authorisation, periodic inspections, emissions monitoring, relations with the inspectorate.
Bring the safety culture to life
Day to day, with the shift teams who run the site: present in the control room and the boiler house, you persuade through expertise and presence, more than through hierarchy.
Own the interface with the food plant
The client site's hygiene and food safety rules, co-activity with the factory, and the quality of what the site supplies to it.
Manage co-activity
Shutdowns and outside contractors: prevention plans, permits, monitoring of interventions.
Build the QHSE system
Procedures, instructions, indicators, audits, certification preparation. Not everything is bedded in yet: what you put in place will last.
The context
The role,unfiltered
The context, what draws a strong profile and the real challenges, written as they are.
🦺 Responsable QHSE / HSE · agroalimentaire et énergie · Hauts-de-France
Un poste d'expert, sur un site qui démarre. Une chaufferie biomasse neuve, classée ICPE, produit la vapeur d'une usine agroalimentaire qui tourne jour et nuit. Vous portez la qualité, la sécurité et l'environnement du site, à l'interface avec l'usine cliente. Rattaché au directeur de site, vous êtes l'expert QHSE du site.
🧭 Le contexte, sans filtre
L'installation tourne en marche continue, 24 h sur 24, pour une production agroalimentaire qui en dépend. Votre poste, lui, est de jour. Deux cultures se croisent sur le site : celle de l'énergie, avec ses risques de combustion et de vapeur, et celle de l'alimentaire, avec ses exigences d'hygiène, de sécurité des aliments et de qualité produit. Vous parlez les deux langues.
Soyons directs : tout n'est pas encore rodé. Des consignes restent à écrire, des procédures à poser, des rituels à installer. Ce que vous construisez dans vos premiers mois deviendra la référence du site.
💡 Pourquoi ce poste vaut le détour
- Le QHSE en propre : vous n'êtes pas l'adjoint d'un service sécurité, vous êtes le QHSE du site
- Un réseau en appui : des référents sécurité nationaux et une communauté de pairs QHSE sur les autres sites du groupe
- Une énergie renouvelable bien réelle : de la biomasse à la place du fossile, pour une usine qui ne s'arrête jamais
- Deux mondes sur un même site : l'énergie et l'alimentaire, une double culture recherchée
- Un système à construire plutôt qu'à maintenir : votre empreinte se verra
- Un groupe solide derrière, avec des trajectoires internes
👷 Le style attendu
Être sur le terrain, porter la sécurité et tourner dans les installations. Chaque jour, un tour terrain : événements de la veille, permis et consignations du jour, présence en chaufferie et en salle de contrôle.
⚠️ Les vrais challenges
- Seul QHSE sur site, jamais isolé : les arbitrages du quotidien sont les vôtres, et le réseau sécurité du groupe vous appuie
- Un poste d'expert avant tout : votre autorité tient à votre présence terrain, et l'encadrement n'est pas une porte fermée
- Une installation à risque réel, en marche continue 7 jours sur 7 : des astreintes, selon l'organisation du site
- Tout n'est pas encore rodé : des consignes et des procédures restent à écrire pendant que le site tourne
03 · The trade
The trade's value chain
The site in one lineand the part that falls to you
- Biomass delivered
- Storage
- Boiler
- Steam supplied
Biomass comes in, burns in the new boiler, and its steam goes to the food factory: you own the site's QHSE.
Volta Executive · outline diagram, taken from the role brief
04 · The organisation
Your place
A clear place,at the right level
You are the site's QHSE, reporting to the site director, and you are not alone: the national safety leads and a community of QHSE peers support you. On site, you are the expert: you bring the rules to life with the people who run the installation.
- Shift teamsOperations and maintenance
- Client food factoryHygiene, co-activity
- Outside contractorsShutdowns and interventions
- National safety networkSafety leads, QHSE peers
We tell you frankly
The site runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and your role is a day job: on-call duty, depending on the site's organisation. The only QHSE on site, never isolated: a community of QHSE peers and national safety leads support you. Above all an expert role: your authority comes from your presence in the field, and management is not a closed door. Not everything is bedded in yet: instructions and procedures remain to be written while the site keeps running.
05 · Your first months
What we expect of you
Your first months,step by step
- Day 0 to day 60
Get to know the site and its risks
Every shift team seen at work. The food site met. QHSE baseline established.
- Day 60 to day 120
Get everything squared away
Single risk assessment document, prevention plans and permits up to date, ICPE compliance checked, priorities shared with management.
- Day 120 to month 12
Make it stick
Indicators tracked and explained, audits carried out, technical shutdown supported, safety culture visible in the field.
06 · You, and the framework
What matters
The must-haves,non-negotiable
- At least 5 years of QHSE or industrial HSE experience
- You come from the agri-food industry: hygiene, food safety, product quality
- QHSE / HSE expert or manager: a site's safety owned outright, not awareness-raising
- In a continuous-fire industrial setting: a process running 24 hours a day
- On an ICPE-classified installation: which operating order, which prevention plans, which permits you have been responsible for
What makes the difference
- A plus
Ideally: you have already worked across food and energy, in a boiler plant or utilities serving a food factory
- A plus
Operations experience, or QHSE experience close to plant control
- A plus
An energy background: heating plant, steam, combustion, utilities
- A plus
A site, line or certification start-up lived from the inside
- Won't work
Less than 5 years of QHSE or industrial HSE experience
- Won't work
A QHSE with no ICPE-classified installation
- Won't work
A QHSE who does not come from the agri-food industry
- Won't work
An office role, far from a continuous process
The salary, plainly
45 to 55k€
gross per year
- Annual gross, depending on your profile and experience
- Variable included in the range
- Permanent contract, managerial status, full time
- On site, in Hauts-de-France
- Day job, on-call duty depending on the site's organisation
- Reporting to the site director, with the national safety network in support
What happens next, in two steps
- You send your CVon this page, in two minutes
- If your profile matches, we will get in touchFlorian Beurtey, who leads the assignment
This role isn't quite right for you? Do not apply to this role: your CV would be read against its criteria, not yours. Send an open application instead, I read it for my other assignments, most of which are never published.
Do you tick the required minimum? Apply here, you will get a straight answer.
07 · Your application
Send your CV
QHSE / HSE manager, food industry (M/F), Hauts-de-France
- No account needed.
- Every CV is read against the requirements of the role.
- If your profile matches, we will get in touch.
Your CV stays confidential.
Frequently asked questions
What candidatesask first
What is the role and where is it based?
QHSE / HSE manager, food industry, permanent executive contract, in Hauts-de-France. QHSE expert for a new biomass boiler plant running around the clock to serve a food factory: a day job, all of the site's safety and compliance in your hands, with the group's safety network behind you.
What is the pay?
€45-55k gross per year, depending on profile and experience.
What are the essential criteria (must-haves)?
At least 5 years of QHSE or industrial HSE experience; You come from the agri-food industry: hygiene, food safety, product quality; QHSE / HSE expert or manager: a site's safety owned outright, not awareness-raising; In a continuous-fire industrial setting: a process running 24 hours a day; On an ICPE-classified installation: which operating order, which prevention plans, which permits you have been responsible for.
Which profiles are not a fit?
Less than 5 years of QHSE or industrial HSE experience; A QHSE with no ICPE-classified installation; A QHSE who does not come from the agri-food industry; An office role, far from a continuous process. An application outside the criteria receives no reply.
How to apply?
You send your CV on the job page. If your profile matches, Volta Executive will contact you. The client's name is shared if your profile is selected.
Who is hiring?
Volta Executive, a recruitment and executive search firm for industry and energy, founded by Florian Beurtey, an engineer who graduated from the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne and AgroParisTech. The assignment is confidential.
Who is hiring
Volta Executive,an engineer who hires engineers
Volta Executive is a recruitment and executive search firm for industry and the energy transition, in France and internationally: energy-from-waste (EfW, SRF), biomass and cogeneration, district heating, anaerobic digestion, energy efficiency, energy storage, electrical engineering. Florian Beurtey, an engineer from Mines Saint-Étienne and AgroParisTech, who has worked at EDF, Safran and INRAE, leads every assignment and meets every candidate before presenting them.
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