HSEQ Manager

Do you have COMAH experience and a good chemical background?
Are you am experienced Health and Safety Manager?
Do you have experience with heavy industrial manufacturing?
This company is an independent, family-owned company manufacturing chemicals for a range of sectors. The company operate from West Midlands. The site is highly regulated to comply with its lower tier COMAH status.
The company seeks a Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) Manager with extensive previous experience in an industrial manufacturing environment to plan and manage SHE and Quality functions in the company and improve overall performance and culture.
Reporting to the Managing Director, the role holder will be responsible for the SHE and Quality Departments which set company policy, provide advice and manage all aspects of safety, health, environmental and quality functions in the company. The role holder will chair and attend management meetings, liaise with external regulators, media, general public and trade associations. It will also provide leadership to investigate, report and suggest remedies for SHE and Quality issues in addition to monitoring and reporting on company SHEQ performance.
Duties
• Provide leadership, guidance and support to the Health, Safety, Environmental, QC and QA functions
• Maintain and improve the site's CoMAH compliance, ISO9001, ISO1401 and other standards and systems
• Be the prime contact and guide for all site audits and Regulatory Body Interventions, maintaining critical relationships with the Health and Safety Executive and Environment Agency
• Devise, write implement and monitor procedures and systems for Health and Safety, Environmental and Quality Management systems.
• Act as an internal consultant on safety, health, environmental and quality matters; particularly as regards improvement to practices.
• Provide technical guidance to our customers on our products and manage any specification queries
• Manage customer interactions with regard to audits and complaints
• Chair Safety Committee, SHE Management Group and ISO standards Management Review meeting.
• Communications and other dealings with Regulatory Bodies
• Identification of SHEQ training needs, assisting with preparation and technical content of training materials, delivery of some training.
Skills and Experience
• Significant Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality management experience gained from manufacturing, preferably high hazard and/or chemical industry, chemicals
• Experience of CoMAH regulations, ideally gaining on a regulated site.
• Risk assessment review and development
• Incident investigation, root cause analysis, auditing and report writing
• Ability to work as part of a small management team
• Experience working on a safety critical, preferably CoMAH, site
• NOT ESESENTIAL - Chemistry/Science degree preferred, ideally with experience of analytical chemistry GC/GCMS/HPLC in an industrial environment
• NEBOSH certificate essential, NEBOSH diploma preferred
• Knowledge and practicable application of Competence and Training management systems an advantage
• Knowledge of Process Safety, Human Factors and Behavioural Safety an advantage
36:25 hours per week
08:45 - 16:30
Monday to Friday,
25 days holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays