Senior Health & Safety Manager (DACH)

Voi Technology; Berlin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Voi Technology in Berlin is seeking a Senior Health & Safety Manager DACH to lead and develop the safety team for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Southern Europe, ensuring compliance with local legislation and Voi's central safety standards.

You will drive risk assessments, policy development, training, audits and incident investigations, covering SIFA, Fire Safety Officer, and Dangerous Goods roles, while collaborating with Legal, HR and Operations to support safe growth.

Qualifications

• Degree in occupational health and safety, engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Recognised professional health and safety qualification, ideally SIFA or equivalent.
• Proven experience in a health and safety management role, including people leadership or leading project teams.
• Strong knowledge of German health and safety legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Experience developing and implementing health and safety policies, procedures and risk assessments, and conducting audits and incident investigations.
• Experience delivering training to improve safety performance.
• Strong stakeholder management, with excellent communication and reporting skills and the ability to use incident and audit data to identify trends and root causes.
• Experience using AI tools regularly in role-specific workflows, adapting prompts and workflows to improve output quality, and guiding team members on effective and responsible AI use.
• Fluent English and German.
• Willingness to travel between sites and markets.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead, coach and develop the health and safety team, including regional and local safety contacts. Set priorities and objectives, manage performance and make sure the team delivers against agreed targets and business plans.
• Safety Culture: Promote a strong safety culture across warehouse, fleet and field operations, so that safety is part of day-to-day activities and operational decision making.
• Policy & Standardisation: Develop, implement and maintain health and safety policies and procedures across the region, with market-specific adaptations that reflect local legal requirements while staying aligned with Voi's central standards.
• Legal Safety Functions: Make sure the SIFA, Fire Safety Officer and Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser roles are covered in every market, either through your own certification or through external providers.
• Risk Assessments & Hazard Analyses: Keep comprehensive risk assessments current for all operational sites (warehouses, logistics areas, offices) and for micromobility-specific activities such as handling e-scooters and e-bikes, batteries and charging infrastructure, workshop machinery and in-field service. Plan and verify the effectiveness of mitigation measures.
• Technical Safety & Hazardous Substances: Oversee the safe use of technical equipment, coordinate inspections in line with local regulations, maintain hazardous substance registers and ensure the safe handling of lithium-ion batteries.
• Incident Management & Analysis: Make sure accidents, near misses and safety-critical events are recorded and analysed. Lead structured investigations including root-cause analyses, develop prevention strategies and track corrective actions to closure.
• Inspections & Auditing: Ensure regular, risk-based safety inspections at all locations, monitor the implementation of agreed measures, identify new or changed hazards and make sure audit reports and follow‑up actions are completed.
• Training: Coordinate the delivery of central health and safety training across markets and give operational guidance so that teams understand and fulfil their safety responsibilities.
• Compliance & Certification: Stay up to date on health and safety legislation in all your markets (workplace safety, fire safety, battery handling, facility compliance, equipment use). Guide markets in meeting regulatory requirements and preparing for external inspections and certifications such as ISO, and support central teams in maintaining safety‑related certifications and documentation.
• Cross‑functional collaboration: Work with local operational teams, Legal, HR, HWQA and Communications on compliance matters, incident escalations, workforce‑related risks and customer and public safety messaging, involving employee representatives where co‑determination applies.
• Reporting & Communication: Define safety KPIs, ensure consistent reporting across markets and give management and central teams structured reports on performance, risks and issues. Communicate changes in legal requirements and policies to the markets, elevate critical incidents or non-compliance, and run workshops, safety briefings and knowledge‑sharing sessions.
• Continuous Improvement: Own the regional health and safety roadmap, support improvement initiatives led by the central safety team, and contribute regional insight to improvements in processes, tooling, equipment and training.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Communication

Training delivery

Education

Degree in occupational health and safety or related field

SIFA Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit or equivalent

Tools

AI tools usage

Job description

YOUR MISSION AT VOI

As Senior Health & Safety Manager DACH, you'll report directly to the Head of Safety & Central Operations and lead and develop Voi's health and safety team for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, France), plus any further markets assigned to you. You'll be accountable for the team's results and for making sure our warehouses, field teams and offices comply with local legislation and with Voi's central health and safety standards. You'll work closely with the Global Head of Health & Safety, the Global Health & Safety Steering Group, Operations, Legal, HR, HWQA and Communications, and support Voi's growth with safety processes, policies and systems that are robust, compliant and scalable.

Three legal functions are required in our industry: SIFA (qualified occupational safety specialist), Fire Safety Officer and Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser. You can cover them yourself through the respective certifications, or through external providers that you manage and steer. Your responsibilities will include:

• Team Leadership: Lead, coach and develop the health and safety team, including regional and local safety contacts. Set priorities and objectives, manage performance and make sure the team delivers against agreed targets and business plans.
• Safety Culture: Promote a strong safety culture across warehouse, fleet and field operations, so that safety is part of day-to-day activities and operational decision making.
• Policy & Standardisation: Develop, implement and maintain health and safety policies and procedures across the region, with market-specific adaptations that reflect local legal requirements while staying aligned with Voi's central standards.
• Legal Safety Functions: Make sure the SIFA, Fire Safety Officer and Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser roles are covered in every market, either through your own certification or through external providers.
• Risk Assessments & Hazard Analyses: Keep comprehensive risk assessments current for all operational sites (warehouses, logistics areas, offices) and for micromobility-specific activities such as handling e-scooters and e-bikes, batteries and charging infrastructure, workshop machinery and in-field service. Plan and verify the effectiveness of mitigation measures.
• Technical Safety & Hazardous Substances: Oversee the safe use of technical equipment, coordinate inspections in line with local regulations, maintain hazardous substance registers and ensure the safe handling of lithium-ion batteries.
• Incident Management & Analysis: Make sure accidents, near misses and safety-critical events are recorded and analysed. Lead structured investigations including root-cause analyses, develop prevention strategies and track corrective actions to closure.
• Inspections & Auditing: Ensure regular, risk-based safety inspections at all locations, monitor the implementation of agreed measures, identify new or changed hazards and make sure audit reports and follow‑up actions are completed.
• Training: Coordinate the delivery of central health and safety training across markets and give operational guidance so that teams understand and fulfil their safety responsibilities.
• Compliance & Certification: Stay up to date on health and safety legislation in all your markets (workplace safety, fire safety, battery handling, facility compliance, equipment use). Guide markets in meeting regulatory requirements and preparing for external inspections and certifications such as ISO, and support central teams in maintaining safety‑related certifications and documentation.
• Cross‑functional collaboration: Work with local operational teams, Legal, HR, HWQA and Communications on compliance matters, incident escalations, workforce‑related risks and customer and public safety messaging, involving employee representatives where co‑determination applies.
• Reporting & Communication: Define safety KPIs, ensure consistent reporting across markets and give management and central teams structured reports on performance, risks and issues. Communicate changes in legal requirements and policies to the markets, elevate critical incidents or non‑compliance, and run workshops, safety briefings and knowledge‑sharing sessions.
• Continuous Improvement: Own the regional health and safety roadmap, support improvement initiatives led by the central safety team, and contribute regional insight to improvements in processes, tooling, equipment and training.

What You Need To Embark

• Degree in occupational health and safety, engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Recognised professional health and safety qualification, ideally Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit (SIFA) or equivalent.
• Proven experience in a health and safety management role, including people leadership or leading project teams.
• Strong knowledge of German health and safety legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Experience developing and implementing health and safety policies, procedures and risk assessments, and conducting audits and incident investigations.
• Experience delivering training to improve safety performance.
• Strong stakeholder management, with excellent communication and reporting skills and the ability to use incident and audit data to identify trends and root causes.
• Experience using AI tools regularly in role‑specific workflows, adapting prompts and workflows to improve output quality, and guiding team members on effective and responsible AI use.
• Fluent English and German.
• Willingness to travel between sites and markets.

Nice To Have

• Fire safety and dangerous goods certifications.
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and France.
• Experience in logistics, mobility, transportation, warehouse operations or similar industries, ideally with lithium‑ion battery handling.
• Additional European languages.

WHY VOI?

Working At Voi Is More Than Just a Job; Our People Promise Includes a Personal Voyage Where You Will Grow As a Professional And Be a Part Of a Team And Culture That Builds Something Meaningful For Society. In Addition To This, You'll Have The Opportunity To

• Join Europe's #1 micromobility operator and one of the fastest‑growing scaleups.
• Get "skin in the game" through our employee stock options programme and play a key role in keeping our people and riders safe as we grow across Europe.
• Be part of a supportive, motivated and fun team working together towards a shared mission.
• Join the micromobility revolution and be a part of creating sustainable cities made for living, free from noise and pollution.

At Voi, we are committed to responsible and ethical recruitment practices, ensuring that all recruitment processes are fair, transparent, and free from exploitation. We operate under the principle that we cover the associated recruitment costs, meaning that no recruitment fees or related costs are charged to workers at any stage of the hiring process. All such costs are borne by Voi, and we require the same standards to be upheld across the agencies we partner with. We work only with recruitment partners who share our commitment to ethical practices and regularly review our processes to ensure compliance, protect workers' rights, and promote a safe and respectful hiring experience for all our candidates.

Since 2018, Voi has been on a mission to create safe, sustainable and reliable micromobility for everyone. Today we are the leading shared micromobility operator in Europe, with HQ in Stockholm (Sweden), operating 200,000+ vehicles in 130+ towns and cities across 13 countries, serving 8+ million riders with over 500+ MILLION rides to date, and we have no intention of stopping here! We believe that micromobility will play a central role in changing how people move in our towns and cities in the future and want to ensure that the micromobility transformation happens the right way - through real innovative technology, partnership and transparent dialogue with towns, cities and governments, and by adapting our products to the local needs. In addition to improving quality of life in cities around the world, we are contributing to the solution for climate change by making sustainable transportation options more widely available and promoting renewable energy use and circularity along our supply chain.

Diversity Matters

As a Voiager, we offer you a friendly, collaborative and fast‑paced workplace where you can bring your whole self to work, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, disability or sexual orientation - and welcome applications from whoever you are, including veterans, those actively serving as a Reservist and their partners. What is most important to us is how you treat others and what skills and value you bring to our team. We believe that having a wide diversity of people with different backgrounds and perspectives within Voi is essential to our success in delivering the best user experience to our equally diverse user base. With employees from over 50 nationalities working within Voi, we believe we have made good progress but know we can still do more - therefore we discourage any photos, personal letters, or disclosure of any information that concerns other information than your professional experience.