HSE Manager (m/f/d)

Cylib; Aachen; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impactful work

Scale-up environment

Cross-site collaboration

Professional growth

Job summary

Cylib is seeking an experienced HSE professional to lead our central HSE team across multiple sites in Germany. You will develop binding ISO 45001-aligned standards, advise sites on legal requirements, and manage risk assessments, audits, and CAPAs to ensure safe operations.

You will drive incident management improvements, report on KPIs, and foster a proactive safety culture across Aachen, Dormagen and other sites. Fluent German and English are required.

Qualifications

• Requires degree in engineering or comparable qualification and Sifa certification.
• Minimum of five years HSE experience in an industrial setting.
• Experience building or enhancing HSE management systems and familiarity with ArbSchG, BetrSichV, DGUV rules, TRGS/TRBS.
• Hands-on experience with risk assessments, audits, training, and incident investigations.
• Knowledge of chemical/recycling industries and environmental/permitting matters is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Help build central HSE team and cross-site management system.
• Advise sites on relevant legal requirements and support safe implementation.
• Develop risk assessments, emergency procedures, and operating instructions.
• Coordinate audits, site inspections, and regulatory authority contact; track CAPAs to completion.
• Work with interdisciplinary teams and embed HSE early in planning of facilities, workplaces and logistics.
• Develop incident management processes and ensure lessons learned lead to improvements.
• Empower teams and leaders, strengthen safety culture, and establish KPIs and management reporting.

Skills

HSE leadership

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessments

Audits & CAPA

Incident investigations

Training delivery

Stakeholder communication

Travel readiness

Fluent German & English

ISO 45001 familiarity

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Certified Occupational Safety Specialist (Sifa)

Tools

ISO 45001 standards

Regulatory knowledge

Job description

• You will help build our central HSE team and a cross-site management system, while developing binding standards in line with ISO 45001.
• You will advise our sites on relevant legal requirements and support their safe implementation.
• You will develop risk assessments, emergency procedures and operating instructions.
• You will coordinate audits, site inspections and contact with regulatory authorities, and track Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) through to completion.
• You will work with interdisciplinary teams across our sites and embed HSE considerations early in the planning of facilities, workplaces and logistics processes-from battery storage and fire protection to wastewater and exhaust air.
• You will further develop our incident management processes and ensure that lessons learned lead to tangible improvements.
• You will empower teams and leaders, strengthen our safety culture, and establish meaningful KPIs and management reporting.

• You have a degree in engineering or a comparable qualification and are a certified occupational safety specialist (Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit, Sifa).
• You have at least five years of HSE experience in an industrial environment.
• You have built or further developed HSE management systems and are familiar with relevant legislation and regulations, such as ArbSchG, BetrSichV, DGUV rules, and TRGS/TRBS.
• You have hands-on experience with risk assessments, audits, training, and incident investigations.
• Experience in the chemical or recycling industry, as well as with environmental and permitting matters, is an advantage.
• You communicate clearly with authorities and operational teams, engage people in HSE topics, and take ownership of implementing improvements.
• You are willing to travel to our sites in Aachen, Dormagen and Wernberg-Köblitz as part of your role.
• You are fluent in German and English.

• You take ownership from day one - after an intensive onboarding, you'll build something unique with us and shape outcomes with real impact on results.
• You work on something that truly matters - with your contribution, you strengthen Europe's battery supply chains and make circular economy a reality on an industrial scale.
• You're part of a mission-driven team - in a fast-paced scale-up environment, we live collaboration, because we can only move things forward together.
• You work to the highest standards - we combine the professionalism of leading industry with the innovative power of a top-tier, research-driven technology team.
• You grow with us - at cylib, you will do what is likely to be the most impactful work of your career and develop personally as we scale together.