Safety Health and Environment Advisor

Fast paced food manufacturing company
SHE Advisor
Leeds
£50,000 per annum + package which includes a 5% bonus, 6% matched pension etc.

Fantastic opportunity to shape the future of safety, health and environment for a small but complex manufacturing site, which is part of a large-scale manufacturing organisation who operates across the UK. This would suit a proactive, confident, solution-oriented safety, health and environment professional who wants to lead a site themselves within a supportive structure. If you want to raise the bar for safety, be creative and start to strengthen compliance on site, shape culture and drive positive behaviours; then this is the role for you!

Vacancy Overview:
 

• Be the subject matter expert on site for SHE, closely supported by the extensive network of experienced SHE professionals in the business and reporting to the inspirational cluster manager who will be there for guidance.
• Seeking a professional who is a hands on leader, willing to get stuck in from the outset, while also providing strategic support as an important member of the senior leadership team.
• Conduct a site-based gap analysis by observing work as it is actually carried out, then prioritise and address the findings. Improve site compliance, drive best practice, raise SHE standards, and finally focus on resetting and refocusing culture and behaviours. Ensuring the workforce take accountability, look out for each other and own safety.
• Calmly support and offer reassurance across the site with perhaps initial handholding if needed following a exciting but major merger.
• Support SHE needs across the business, the site has had significant investment which has resulted in exciting projects and initiatives which needs to be rolled out
• This is a permitted site, with risks including,  hot working areas, effluent, ammonia, gas ovens, CIP, machinery safety, slips trips and falls, DSEAR, workplace transport, manual handling, MHE
• Assist with the management of all stakeholder relationships (EA, HSE, Customers, Local community) to ensure that there are no compliance issues
• Support the recording and successful management of all emergency evacuation exercises, ensuring procedures are followed and practiced, adhering with agreed group and insurance standards
• Supporting to shape the current safety culture and behaviours from a dependent to independent state, where the level of ownership is re-set and refocused to site level.
• The senior leadership team are open to raising the bar but need guidance and support when it comes to integrating SHE, requiring a patience approach to educate and promote confidence across Safety, Health and Environment.

Ideal background and qualifications: 

• Prior HSE experience within an engineering, production, manufacturing, logistics and warehouse background but ideally FMCG like bakery, brewery, beverages, food, tobacco, paper and packaging. Actively excluding public sector, oil and gas, retail and construction. 
• Experience with environmental duties especially permits
• NEBOSH Certificate is essential 
• Experience or capability to lead a site themselves. 

Ideal personality needed for a successful hire: 
 

• Proactive, self-starter who can troubleshoot and who is solutions driven 
• Positive and engaging leader 
• Hands on, supportive, able to hand hold the site initially then slowly enable the site to take accountability or SHE, growing their knowledge and confidence. Giving the right tools to help them succeed. 

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.