Christian Dior Industrial Safety and Environment Manager

About Christian Dior

Christian Dior, founded in Paris in 1946, stands as one of the world’s most influential maisons, uniting haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, fragrance, beauty, and exceptional retail experiences. As an employer, Dior offers a culture shaped by artistic audacity, meticulous craftsmanship, and the pursuit of excellence, where heritage and innovation continually enrich one another. Its teams collaborate across ateliers, studios, boutiques, and corporate functions within an international environment that values elegance, precision, inclusivity, and entrepreneurial spirit. Working at Dior means contributing to a legacy of timeless style while helping define the future of luxury with creativity, discipline, and purpose.

Role & Responsibilities

• Ensure regulatory compliance in safety and environmental matters.
• Lead audits, compliance assessments, impact analyses and environmental indicators.
• Manage relationships with relevant authorities and external organisations.
• Implement and monitor safety policies, identify and analyse risks, and lead preventive and corrective action plans.
• Control risks related to production, processes, equipment, facilities, and the handling of chemicals and flammable materials.
• Manage and assess major technological risks, including fire, explosion and hazardous-material spills.
• Integrate safety and environmental considerations into production and quality-control processes, ensuring compliance with applicable standards.
• Lead prevention initiatives concerning working conditions and ergonomics, using monitoring indicators such as absenteeism and musculoskeletal disorders, and working with the relevant teams.
• Define and implement emergency procedures, organise simulation exercises, and coordinate responses to accidents or incidents.
• Provide management leadership to the crisis unit and take responsibility for decisions and emergency strategy, drawing on the operational expertise of the team’s specialists.
• Lead governance for the assigned scope, including safety steering committees, and provide leadership bodies with the analysis, alerts and decision-making information they need.
• Develop a risk-prevention and environmental-protection culture across teams.
• Raise staff awareness and train them on safety and environmental issues, encouraging dialogue, on-the-ground engagement and information sharing.
• Deliver safety training and awareness sessions, and establish monitoring and performance indicators.
• Manage a multidisciplinary team covering safety, environment, risk management and ergonomics.
• Develop team capabilities, structure priorities and promote the sharing of best practices.
• Unite the team around a shared roadmap and concrete action plans.
• Lead the scope’s regular management routines and performance reviews.
• Contribute to defining the resources required to deploy the Operations strategy.
• Propose and manage safety and environmental objectives, and contribute to their achievement.
• Lead the safety and environmental agenda within the Industrial Management Committee, driving and implementing strategic direction.
• Manage, support and develop the team in line with HR policies and skills-development frameworks.

Qualifications

• General engineering degree or education with a specialisation in safety and environment.
• At least 10 years of significant experience in safety and environment, ideally in a demanding industrial setting.
• Practical experience managing technological risks in a production environment.
• Experience in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals or agrifood is an advantage.
• Rigorous, organised and analytical approach.
• Expertise in safety, environmental and ergonomics regulations, and risk-analysis methods such as APR.
• Leadership, autonomy, proactivity, and expertise in crisis management and emergency plans.
• Sound judgement and the ability to assert positions constructively.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to manage and lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Organisational, analytical and synthesis skills, with a strong performance and results orientation and the ability to drive change.

Skills

Experience

At least 10 years in safety and environment, ideally in a demanding industrial setting; practical experience managing technological risks in a production environment.

Education

General engineering degree or education with a specialisation in safety and environment.

Culture

Christian Dior fosters a culture of refined creativity, exceptional craftsmanship, and continuous innovation, where teams are encouraged to uphold the Maison’s heritage while shaping the future of luxury. As an employer, it offers a dynamic and exacting environment that values collaboration, excellence, and the development of talent across artistic, retail, and corporate disciplines.

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