Job Details

Company; High-end, beverage manufacturing company with global presence
Position; Head of Health, Safety and Environment 
Location; Chiswick London
Reporting to the Managing Director
Direct reports, 4 H&S Professionals
Salary £80,000 - £85,000 per annum, + £5,500 car allowance, 10-20% bonus, 25 days + Bank Holiday, 10% Pension employer, 4% employee contribution
 
Are you a passionate, engaging and caring, senior Health and Safety professional? Able to empower the workforce at all levels and get their teeth stuck in to some exciting projects?  Wanting to evolve a company’s culture and take them on a journey towards interdependency and excellence?
If so, this is the job for you!

I am currently representing an Global manufacturing company, to support them in finding their next Head of HSE Manager to be responsible for the UK operations. This is a very fast paced company who are leaders in their field. Looking for a proven health and safety professional to support two manufacturing facilities and two distribution sites take them on a maturity journey, lead their ISO 45001 accreditation and implementation of a new management system. 
 
Main responsibilities:

• Exciting time to join this company to Head up the Health and Safety function across the UK, responsible for implementing H&S management systems, business continuity management (BCM) and strategic priorities
• Coach and mentor the H&S team (4)
• Provide alignment of H&S standards across all 4 UK sites and wider European sites
• Provides leadership and technical support to the implementation of the H&S, BCM and security strategic priorities in all functions of the company, ensuring that all programs are properly implemented and that compliance to company requirements is solid and sustainable.
• Leads BBS (Behaviour Based Safety) program in the country. Positive behaviours and culture already but need to focus on momentum to support their goal of interdependency across the sites
• Communicates with functional leadership teams to get their support, involvement and endorsement to the H&S programs and initiatives.
• Develops/adapts standards, guidance materials and trainings to support the implementation of the H&S strategy.
• Periodically reports the progress to the senior leadership team and global function, using appropriate performance indicators and management review processes.
• Advises on Capex with respect to H&S projects.
• Assists in the assessment and implementation of international standards ISO 45001 certifications including follow up.
• Conducts independent compliance assessments, field observations, inspections, coaching and guidance within country
• Coordinates reporting towards external bodies.
• Manages all technical risks in the country and coordinates actions to reduce or mitigate them.
• Coordinates, through Security manager, implementation, and improvement of security standards in the company and investigation of frauds.
• Cooperates with the insurance company and coordinates cases raised related to the insurance.

 
 
Essential experience and qualifications;

• NEBOSH diploma or equivalent
• FMCG experience ideally within food, beverage or packaging manufacturing environments
• Management of multiple sites
• Exposure to risk management, business continuity management, cultural change programmes

 
Personality requirements;

• People centric, dynamic
• Care, pride and passion for HSE
• Able to engage with gravitas
• Empower all levels of workforce, from the factory floor all the way up to stakeholder/ Director level
• Visible and approachable

 
Interested? Apply now for immediate consideration sophia.darwin@hserecruitment.co.uk // 0121 454 5000.Alternatively, if you know of anyone who may be interested in this opportunity, please forward on our details.