Europe Safety Manager M/F

Limagrain; Saint-Beauzire; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Limagrain Europe is seeking an experienced Europe Safety Manager to define and drive occupational health and safety strategy across Europe, ensuring regulatory compliance and strong risk management. You will lead the Europe Safety team, harmonize practices, and promote a culture of accountability and safety excellence across sites.

Travel across Europe is required to support sites, train managers, and implement corporate standards.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Safety Management, Risk Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in occupational health and safety management in a multi-site industrial environment.
• Fluent English required; professional proficiency in French.

Responsibilities

• Define and deploy safety strategies, standards and policies in line with guidelines.
• Ensure risk management and safety performance monitoring across sites.
• Lead the Europe Safety team and develop competency.
• Coordinate safety network across Europe and travel frequently.
• Oversee audits, regulatory monitoring and incident investigations.
• Promote a culture of accountability and safety compliance.

Skills

OH&S management

Risk prevention & assessment

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Leadership

Communication skills

Fluent English

Education

Master’s degree in Safety Management or Risk Management or related field

Job description

The Europe Safety Manager defines and drives the safety strategy forLimagrain Field Seeds Europe. He/she ensures regulatory compliance, risk management, and the development of a strong safety culture across the organization.

Reporting to the Head of QHSE, CSR & Operational Excellence Department Europe, he/she deploys the occupational health and safety strategy, harmonizes practices across countries, strengthens the safety culture, and contributes to the company's performance and transformation.

Main Goal

The Europe Safety Manager leads the occupational health and safety strategy across Europe and ensures its effective implementation. In this role, he/she:

• Defines and deploys safety strategies, standards, and policies in line with Group guidelines and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures risk management, safety performance monitoring, and compliance across all European sites.
• Coordinates the safety network and supports sites and managers through tools, methodologies, and expertise.
• Develops a strong safety culture through training, awareness, and communication initiatives.
• Oversees incident investigations, action plans, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manages audits, regulatory monitoring, and risk control activities.
• Leads the Europe Safety team and contributes to competency development.
• Promotes a culture of accountability, collaboration, and performance aligned with the company’s values.

Location

This position can be based at any of our Limagrain Field Seeds sites across Europe, including locations in :

Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Given the scope of the role, the successful candidate must demonstrate strong mobility and be prepared to travel frequently across Europe, including France.

What we expect of you

You hold a higher education degree (Master’s degree in Safety Management, Risk Management, or a related field) and have at least 10 years of experience in occupational health and safety management within a multi-site industrial environment, ideally in an international setting.

You have strong expertise in:

• Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems
• Risk Prevention and Risk Assessment
• Regulatory Compliance

Recognized for your leadership and influence skills, you are able to engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization. You are rigorous and analytical, with excellent communication and change management capabilities. Fluent English is essential. Professional proficiency in French is required.

Recruitment process

Once you have submitted your application, you will receive an acknowledgment confirming its receipt. Our teams will carefully review your profile against the requirements of the role and our organizational needs.

If your application is shortlisted, you can expect the following steps :

• An initial screening interview with HR Team.
• The completion of personality and reasoning assessments.
• Interviews with your future manager and the HR Team.

The Limagrain Group is an employer that respects diversity and encourages applications from all backgrounds.

Limagrain Field Seeds, with its international multi-crop LG brand is the global Feld Seeds division of Group Limagrain. Limagrain Field Seeds covers all continents with subsidiaries in over 40 countries and sales in 77 countries. Limagrain Field Seeds supplies LG branded seeds of Maize, Wheat, Sunflower, Winter Rape and other regional crops to all farmers large or small. A strong commitment to progress through technology ensures that plant variety improvements arrive continually from 84 research sites and are adapted for maximum local performance.

Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne-Val d’Allier plain, in the heart of Central France’s Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri-food group with some 9,600 employees working in 53 countries. As the 4th largest seed company in the world, we achieved sales of 2.522 billion euros in 2023-2024, with additional sales of 729 million euros from activities carried out in collaboration with our strategic partners.