Group HSE Manager

Group HSE Manager

My client is a leading UK manufacturer of a range of PVCU Fenestration Products. They have a new opportunity for a Group HSE Manager to join their team based in Norwich with occasional travel (roughly once per year) to the trade counter branches around the UK. The successful candidate will ikdeally hold a NEBOSH certificate

Role Overview
Responsible for leading Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) activities across the Group, fostering a proactive safety culture, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation and regulatory requirements, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to achieve sustained reductions in incidents and enhanced environmental performance. The role has overall responsibility for HSE across the Group, providing strategic leadership and ensuring consistent standards and best practices are implemented throughout both businesses.

Responsibilities:
Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Leadership
• Advise group management team on HSE compliance requirements.
• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise that ensures appropriate HSE systems are in place.
• Plan and direct HSE activities and programs; establish priorities for project execution based upon site resources and cost of implementation.
• Maintain a safe, secure, and compliant environment by operating within company systems, policies and procedures.
• Demonstrate company vision and values.

Compliance, Governance & Management Systems
• Develop and oversee control systems to ensure compliance with legal guidelines and internal policies across the site.
• Enforce regulations in all aspects and levels of business and provide guidance on compliance matters.
• Coordinate external registration and surveillance audit schedules with selected certifying body.

Risk Management & Safe Systems of Work
• Coordinate the generation and routine maintenance/review of risk assessments and safe systems of work processes.
• Continuously assess HSE hazards and risks and provide technical expertise to ensure compliance with local regulations, company policies, procedures and programmes.

Incident Management & Correction Actions
• Coordinate accident investigation processes, recording and reporting industrial injuries as required.
• Actively participate in the investigation of significant HSE incidents and ensure timely and complete implementation of corrective actions.
• Maintain and lead improvements of Corrective Action Reporting (CAR).
• Support the embedding of root cause analysis and problem-solving methodologies, undertaking fault-finding investigations in the event of product and process failures.

Auditing, Monitoring & Reporting
• Ensure the timely and accurate reporting of HSE performance data and incidents.
• Designate and carry out routine site Health, Safety and Environmental audits to comply with site requirements across the factory, group offices and trade counters branches.
• Manage and track site Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and drive site improvement toward goals.
• Ensure site-specific safety and environmental targets are achieved and continuously improved.

Training, Coaching & Culture
• Develop and deliver specific site-focused HSE training.
• Develop and deliver new starter HSE inductions.
• Support problem resolution and provide leadership and guidance.
• Promote continuous improvement and a positive safety culture throughout the organisation.

Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence
• Design, execute and maintain a management plan with appropriate metrics to drive performance improvement across all teams.
• Work in conjunction with Operations on improvement projects across the site.
• Work with Operations on business-critical KPIs relating to Safety, Quality and OEE.
• Develop relationships with key customers and suppliers regarding areas of improvement.

Company benefits for this role:

Annual Bonus: paid in January based on company performance – up to 7.5% of annual salary.
Holiday: 25 days per annum plus opportunity to purchase two additional days
Life Assurance: 3x annual salary
Private Healthcare (after probation)
Paid Volunteering time
Company Sick Pay

Technique-Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a proud equal opportunities employer, dedicated and specialist to the engineering and manufacturing industries. We work and support some of the most well-known companies in Norfolk and Suffolk. These vacancies are being advertised on behalf of Technique-Recruitment Solutions Ltd who are operating as an employment business and employment agency