Manager kwaliteitsveiligheid
Key Skills
Job Description
Quality & Safety Manager Join us in building a safe and high-quality logistics organization. At Heppner, we believe that quality and safety are the foundation of excellent logistics services. That’s why we’re looking for a driven Quality & Safety Manager to help us maintain and continuously improve our high standards. Are you analytical, decisive, and energized by audits, certifications, and process optimization? Then we’d love to meet you. What will you be doing? As a Quality & Safety Manager, you'll be in charge of keeping our quality and safety management system up-to-date, improving it, and taking it to the next level. You'll make sure our company meets all relevant laws, regulations, and certification standards. Plus, you'll be a key sounding board for management and colleagues on quality, safety, and compliance issues. You do this for both branches in North Brabant (Gilze and Oosterhout). Your tasks will include things like: • Managing and continuously improving the quality and safety management system. • Preparing, coordinating, and guiding internal and external audits. • Maintaining and obtaining certifications such as ISO, TAPA, FSSC 22000, SQAS, and Ecovadis. • Conducting internal audits, safety inspections, and risk inventories (RI&E). • Analyzing incidents, near-misses, and KPIs, and initiating improvement measures. • Developing and implementing procedures, work instructions, and safety standards. • Advising management on risks, compliance, and process improvements. • Providing training and increasing safety and quality awareness within the organization. • Preparing reports for management, directors, and clients. What do you bring? You are an independent professional who easily switches between the shop floor and management. You know how to get people on board with changes and combine a practical mindset with strong analytical skills. In addition, you have: • A completed higher professional education, preferably in Quality, Safety, Logistics, or similar. • Experience in quality and/or safety management, preferably in a logistics environment. • Knowledge of ISO standards, TAPA, FSSC 22000, SQAS, and relevant laws and regulations. • Knowledge of Microsoft/ Excel. • Experience with audits, certifications, and risk management. • Experience with KPI analysis and management reporting. • Good communication skills in both Dutch and English. • A structured, accurate, and proactive way of working. What do we offer? At Heppner, you will join an international logistics organization where quality, teamwork, and entrepreneurship are at the heart of everything. You can expect: • A challenging and responsible role with a lot of independence. • Opportunities to improve processes and the organization further. • Collaboration with enthusiastic colleagues in an international work environment. • A competitive salary that matches your experience. Why Heppner? Heppner is an international logistics service provider with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and customer orientation. Together, we work every day on smart logistics solutions for our customers. Safety, sustainability, and continuous improvement are always at the center of everything we do. Interested? Are you the Quality & Safety Manager who can help our organization get better and safer every day? Then we would love to receive your application. Apply today and become part of Heppner. If you have any questions, you can email [email protected]
Core Responsibilities
Manage and continuously improve the quality and safety management system across the Gilze and Oosterhout branches, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and certification standards. Coordinate audits and certifications, assess risks and incidents, develop procedures and training, and advise management on compliance and process improvements.
Requirements
A completed higher professional education is preferred, ideally in quality, safety, logistics, or a related field, along with experience in quality and/or safety management, preferably in logistics. Candidates should know relevant ISO standards, TAPA, FSSC 22000, SQAS, applicable regulations, Microsoft Excel, audits, certifications, risk management, KPI analysis, and management reporting, and communicate well in Dutch and English.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Independent Role
- International Work Environment
About Heppner
Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Heppner, créateur de solutions de transport et de logistique, est un spécialiste et leader indépendant des échanges internationaux. Nos réseaux de transport terrestre, solides et performants, relient plus de 40 pays européens, avec des livraisons en 24 à 72 heures vers les principales villes européennes. Fortement tournés vers l’international, nos accords de partenariat exclusifs nous permettent également d’organiser le transport maritime et aérien depuis et vers 157 pays à travers le monde. Forts d'un CA de plus d’un milliard d’euros en 2025, après 100 ans d’aventure entrepreneuriale, nous comptons plus de 3 570 collaborateurs dont 111 alternants, près de 80 agences en France, 10 en Allemagne, une présence en propre aux Pays-Bas, en Espagne, en Belgique, en Suisse, en Hongrie, au Royaume-Uni, au Sénégal et plus de 10 000 clients. Chaque jour, Heppner œuvre à Encourager l’Esprit d’Entreprise de ses collaborateurs, partenaires, clients et fournisseurs sur tous ses territoires d’activité. Heppner is a specialist creator of transport and logistics solutions and an independent leader in international transport. Our robust and efficient overland transport networks connect more than 40 European countries, with deliveries within 24 to 72 hours to the main European cities. With strong international connections, our exclusive partnership agreements also enable us to handle ocean and air transport to and from 157 countries worldwide. With a revenue of more than one billion euros in 2025, after 100 years of entrepreneurial adventure (founded in 1925), we currently employ more than 3,570 people - including 111 on work-study programmes - across nearly 80 locations in France and 10 in Germany, with a direct presence in the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire, serving more than 10,000 customers. Every day, Heppner works to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of its employees, partners, clients, and suppliers.