Job description
This is how you’ll change the way people eat forever
We’re looking for a Health and Safety Specialist to join our ambitious HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) team in Bleiswijk. In this role, you’ll play a key part in implementing and maintaining the HelloFresh Benelux HSE strategy at our Distribution Center. You’ll be the go-to person for all health and safety matters on site: proactively identifying risks, driving improvements, and engaging employees to build a strong safety culture.
You’ll spend most of your time on the floor, working closely with teams to spot hazards, lead investigations, and make safety tangible and actionable. You’ll bring your expertise, energy, and communication skills to help others understand not just what needs to be done, but why it matters.
This is how you’ll make an impact
- Conduct and follow up on risk assessments, workplace inspections, and incident investigations to continuously improve safety performance.
- Develop and deliver trainings, procedures, toolbox talks, and awareness sessions to increase safety ownership across all teams.
- Support managers and team leads in applying HSE policies and ensuring compliance with Dutch health and safety regulations.
- Actively engage with employees on the work floor; listening, observing, and empowering them to take safety into their own hands.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design practical, sustainable solutions for identified risks and unsafe situations.
- Help shape a proactive and positive safety culture; where people feel responsible, informed, and safe.
Additional details
- Work location: Bleiswijk (on-site presence required)
- Work-from-home flexibility: 1 day per week
- Working hours: Monday to Friday, during office hours
These are the ingredients you’ll bring to the team
- A bachelor’s degree and an MVK or HVK qualification.
- 3–4 years of experience in a Health & Safety role, ideally within logistics, production, or manufacturing environments.
- Strong knowledge of Dutch health and safety regulations and risk assessment methods.
- Proven experience in incident investigation, root cause analysis, and drafting clear, practical procedures.
- Experience conducting internal audits and compliance checks.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills;you motivate rather than enforce, and know how to bring people along.
- A hands-on, problem-solving attitude: you go to the floor, talk to people, and co-create solutions.
- The ability to prioritize and stay organized in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Full working proficiency in Dutch and English(both required).
🥕 This is our recipe
- Freedom to initiate, execute and implement your own ideas
- The opportunity to engage and collaborate with our colleagues across the globe
- Learning and development opportunities including a personal development budget
- 24 holidays per year, plus 1 day per additional year of work
- Need more holidays? We offer the possibility to purchase some extra holiday days
- A hybrid work setup, with a 250 Euro budget to help set up your home office
- Reimbursement of travel expenses to the office
- A discount on your weekly HelloFresh and/or Factor_ box
- Our FreshEnergy program includin Headspace subscription, a collaboration with OpenUp for your mental wellbeing, webinars and other events
- Multiple ways of getting to a work-related appointment, for example by using our company cars or a MyWheels car
- We offer 100% paid partner parental leave (up to 5 weeks) if your partner has a new born
- Discount on your ClassPass subscription, and a discount for your gym membership via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland
- Access to GoodHabitz with hundreds of resources for your learning & development
- Discount on your additional health insurance through Zilveren Kruis
- Healthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office
- Monthly pension scheme
🌱 Grow your career at HelloFresh
A career at HelloFresh is an opportunity to make an impact in a world-leading meal-kit company. Through our Learning Never Stops core value, we empower you to take your career development to your highest potential…but we don’t just want to say it, we want to show it too.
Check out some amazing growth stories here:
- Joran van der Hel’s journey from driver to Ground Operations Manager
- Marjolein Boukens’ journey from Customer Care Agent to Employee Experience Manager
- Nick Beeks’ journey from Junior Field Marketing Manager to Offline Growth Marketing Manager
- Valerie Blank’s journey from Junior Sampling Coordinator to Team Lead of Product Marketing
A career at HelloFresh is an opportunity to make an impact in a world-leading meal-kit company. Through our Learning Never Stops core value, we empower you to take your career development to your highest potential. In this role, you will have the opportunity to grow towards a Senior HSE Specialist position or expand your scope across multiple sites in the Benelux region.
🍍 Hungry for more?
- Apply with your CV and a strong motivation to join us
- If we see a match, you’ll have a video call with one of our recruiters to share more about what you can bring to the team.
- Are both sides still positive? Next up is an in-person interview with the hiring team to get to know you better and dive into more detail of your skills and how you are going to make an impact.
- Lastly you’ll have a conversation with someone from our Leadership team
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