Job Description

Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!

Responsibilities

• HSE Leadership: You take overall responsibility for Health, Safety & Environment at a manufacturing site with around 100 employees, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, internal standards and effective preventive measures.
• Safety Culture: Working closely with managers and employees, you drive risk assessments, root cause analyses and accident prevention initiatives while maintaining a strong presence on the shopfloor.
• Quality Management & Quality Assurance: You strategically develop the quality management system, lead the Quality Assurance team and work together to strengthen sustainable quality standards across the site.
• Leadership: You lead and develop the QHSE team, foster collaboration and create an environment where accountability, safety awareness and continuous improvement are part of the daily culture.
• Audits & Compliance: You lead internal audits and support external audits and certifications while working closely with customers, suppliers, authorities and regulatory bodies.
• Site Leadership: As a member of the site management team, you contribute to operational and strategic decisions and act as a role model for leadership, ownership and a strong safety culture.

Qualifications

• Experience: You bring several years of HSE experience within an industrial manufacturing environment. Experience in quality management or quality assurance, as well as initial leadership experience, would be an advantage.
• Qualifications: You hold a degree in engineering, occupational health & safety, environmental management, quality management or a comparable field. Ideally, you are a certified Occupational Health and Safety Specialist (Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit) or hold an equivalent qualification.
• Expertise: You have solid knowledge of occupational health & safety, health and environmental management.
• Hands-on Approach: You enjoy working closely with people on the shopfloor and know how to develop practical solutions together with operational teams.
• Working Style: You combine strong analytical skills with a structured approach to risk management, audits and compliance, while maintaining a pragmatic, hands-on mindset.
• Communication: You communicate fluently in German and confidently in English (minimum B2 level), and you build trust through clear communication, visible leadership and a collaborative approach.

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The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Freudenberg Performance Materials GmbH & Co. KG