Company: Established but growing food and beverage manufacturing company
Salary: £55,000–£70,000 per year + package
Location: Shepton Mallet, Somerset, can work from home for 1 day per week.
Do you want to shape HSE strategy and culture within a fast-paced production environment?
Are you a senior, hands on HSE leader who wants to influence, engage with and empower the workforce?
If so, this is the role for you…
Overview of the position:
Seeking a credible and proactive Health, Safety and Environmental Manager to drive safety across this single but complex site. Supporting day to day operations and developing group strategy for this site
To manage 1 direct report, a HSE Coordinator offering coaching and development.
This is a senior role for the company and will be a key member of the senior leadership team. To advise and challenge leaders, strengthen management ownership of operational risks and ensure that significant compliance issues are identified and addressed.
Ensure compliance but also drive cultural change and encourage positive and proactive behaviours on site. Allowing the workforce to take accountability for safety
Manage the ESG agenda, development of environmental reporting, carbon accounting and the wider ESG strategy. With the future plan to roll out ISO 14001.
Maintain oversight of environmental permits, regulatory submissions, waste duty of care, emissions, effluent, drainage, water, chemicals and pollution prevention.
Lead audits, inspections, risk reviews, incident investigations and corrective-action follow-up.
Set standards for risk assessments, safe systems of work and operational procedures across areas including COSHH, DSEAR, machinery safety, workplace transport, contractors, permits and occupational health.
Provide HSE assurance for new plant, processes, chemicals, buildings and layouts, including management of change and relevant CDM duties.
Own fire-safety governance, emergency preparedness, drills, maintenance evidence and contractor coordination.
Coordinate auditable energy, fuel, water, waste and emissions data, supporting carbon-footprint development, EcoVadis, M2030, customer questionnaires and ESG reporting.
Establish the HSE training and competence framework, promote employee participation and report performance, trends and material risks to senior leaders.
Essential background and qualifications:
Manufacturing background, ideally food, drink, beverage, dairy, baked goods, distillery, brewery, paper, packaging, textiles, tobacco
NEBOSH General Certificate or ideally Diploma or equivalent
Experience of ISO 14001 or ISO 45001, environmental permits, ESOS, carbon accounting, EcoVadis, SMETA or M2030 (very desirable)
Who are we looking for?
Confident and credible safety professional who is proactive and resilient
Ability to interpret data and deliver this locally but more importantly someone who is communicative, collaborative and passionate.
Able to coach and mentor others, in a positive and supportive way
Able to influence, gain buy -in and collaborative across departments able to bridge the gap between safety and operations.
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Salary description
£55000.00 - £70000.00 per year