Safety, Health and Environment Manager

Manufacturing Company – Family owned
Safety, Health and Environment Business Partner ( Site based SHE leader)
Crewkerne, South Somerset
£45,000 to £52,500 per annum (depending on experience) + package which includes a bonus
40 hr week – Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm (there is flexibility on offer here)

A pleasure to represent a growing business within the FMCG industry, who are looking for their next Health, Safety and Environment professional to be a subject matter expert on a single production site.
The company is in a state of evolution and looking for an engaging and enthusiastic leader to support the site, raise safety standards and take them on a cultural journey.
This position is well supported by the Central HSE Manager; you will be a key member of the wider HSE Team to enable best practice to be shared across the group.
A great opportunity to have creative input on site for HSE, exposure to different projects and be proud of working with an organisation who genuinely puts safety first. As well as getting stuck in across a range of exciting projects both on site and centrally.

Vacancy overview: 
 

• Seeking a hands-on professional who is visible and approachable across the site, as well as developing the onsite SHE strategy
• A proven leader to help raise the bar for safety on site, looking to create a strong platform for safety and then in turn develop their safety culture, think evolution not revolution. Making SHE simple, practical and easy to follow,
• Be the subject matter expert for the site supporting them with their Health, Safety and Environmental requirements
• Who is able to work in hand in hand with the site leadership team to ensure compliance with the Safety, Health and Environmental Management Procedures and support their strategy. Leadership on site are very engaged and eager to improve standards
• Be a key member of the site senior leadership team and offer support and guidance.
• To influence, collaborate and engage key stakeholders to proactively manage site development for SHE, continuous improvement of safer ways of working, all of whom are open minded and would welcome ways to improve.
• It is a well -supported position, both on site with SHE Reps and the other SHE Business Partners who are based across the other sites in the organisation
• Help standardise the group alongside Senior SHE Manager, for this site and support the conversion of group/ company wide standards for this site
• Provide oversight of legislative compliance to the H&S Manager and Site Management Teams through leading & supporting SHE audits and inspections.
• Proactively manage and undertake incident investigations to reach root cause, monitor and report on close out of resulting actions
• Work in collaboration with the site leadership teams to develop and manage the Site SHE management plans on a risk-based approach engaging with site teams to deliver targeted improvement initiatives.

Personality fit:
 

• Empowering, energetic and engaging
• Takes pride in the brand, their work and is passionate
• Not afraid to get stuck in and support
• Adaptable and flexible in their approach to Safety

Ideal background and qualifications:
 

• Fast paced manufacturing experience ideally within the bakery, food, drink, paper, packaging, tobacco, brewing, dairy or beverage industry but open to general manufacturing and logistics backgrounds
• NEBOSH General Certificate level qualified or equivalent
• Awareness of environmental permitting
• Able to support behavioural safety program development
• Strong training experience, a true coach and mentor
• Previous experience managing a single site independently

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