Manufacturing Department Safety Leader

Job Location: West Thurrock

Procter & Gamble (P&G) are a leading company in the manufacture of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods, making some of the world’s best-loved brands like Gillette, Fairy, and Oral-B. We are looking for a motivated and high-calibre Department Safety Leader to join us at our London (West Thurrock) Site. We’re a build from within company, meaning we’re looking for those interested in building a career, not just a job with us.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Department Safety Ownership: Overall, you will own and lead the safety & environmental program for your department, engaging with senior leaders on site to deliver a multi-year improvement program. This includes ensuring HSE standards are in place, improved and maintained, ensuring legal requirements are met.
• Incident Tracking, Reporting and Investigation: You will track the Behaviour Observation schedule for your area, highlighting unsafe behaviours and analysing the data (Power BI) to make recommendations to the Operational Leadership team to implement. You will partner to conduct required investigations in relation to safety and lost time accidents.
• Train and Communicate on Safety: You will train and qualify new starters, Safety Functional Leaders and own your department's safety induction process. You will maintain area safety documents, team safety communications, and ensure audit and training materials are updated.
• Inspections and Risk Assessing: You will manage the safety inspection program for your area, updating the inspections as required, and reporting any outages. Participate in risk assessments for your area, updating and reviewing as required in department. Complete and review regularly all High-Risk tasks, ensuring full assessment and clear mitigation steps are put in place.
• System ownership: You will own key department and site systems based on the needs of the business to deliver cross-department improvements and capability building in line with our corporate safety program.

Please note this is a day-based, rather than a shift-based role; you'll generally work 40 hours per week.

What We Offer You:

• Competitive Salary & Benefits: P&G take a Total Rewards approach meaning on top of your competitive salary you can expect a whole range of benefits including: Double Matched Pension Scheme; Private Medical Insurance; P&G Contributed Share Programme; 25 Days' Holiday, and your own ‘Flex4Me’ fund where you can allocate a portion of your benefits package to the areas that matter most to you.
• Dynamic and respectful work environment: This role is based in our London Plant in West Thurrock which offers free parking, an on-site gym and a discounted canteen.
• Career development opportunities: within a Top Employer of choice organisation. Continuous coaching. You will work with passionate people and receive ongoing coaching and mentoring from your line manager and other colleagues.

Job Qualifications:

• NEBOSH General Certification is required, as you will lead the legal safety compliance for the department, as well as implementing company safety requirements and policies.
• Very good transferable people skills.
• A proven record of delivering outstanding safety improvements and exceeding targets set.
• A clear understanding of how to execute projects.
• Competent in full Microsoft package with analytical skills, assessing large amounts of data to visual trends and can use Power BI functions.

Right to Work: For this role, P&G are willing to provide sponsorship to those who require a visa to live and work in the UK, subject to meeting all the necessary Home Office requirements. Full details on visa restrictions can be found on the Home Office website and immigration rules are subject to change. P&G is legally required to ensure all candidates have the right to work in the UK from Day 1 of their employment. All applicants will therefore be asked to provide evidence of their right to work at the conclusion of the recruitment process as a condition of employment.

At P&G #weseeequal We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. At P&G we strive to build a culture where everyone feels welcome, included, and able to bring their full selves to work. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process.

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Job Schedule: Full time

Job Number: R000131110

Job Segmentation: Plant Technicians