Health and Safety Manager

Company: High risk, Fast Paced, Manufacturing Company

Vacancy: Health and Safety Manager

Salary £65,000 – £70,000 per annum + Package (DOE)

Based: Leicestershire

Responsible for coaching and mentoring 1 direct report

Seeking a Health and Safety professional who can make a real impact on the factory floor and equally able to communicate with gravitas with senior management and stakeholders.

The ideal H&S Professional will be outgoing, engaging, solutions focused and able to enhance and drive a positive safety culture.

If you want to work for a leading manufacturing organisation where you can put your own stamp on the site and get stuck into a variety of interesting projects to enhance the Health and Safety needs of the work force, then this is the role for you!

Main responsibilities:-

• Drive and maintain H&S compliance across two small, high risk manufacturing sites and drive industry best practice.
• Work hand in hand and offer support to the Environment Department
• Develop and maintain contacts with relevant H&S regulatory and industry organisations and actively participate in meetings and initiatives with them.
• Provide concise weekly and monthly reports to Directors and Shareholders
• Develop and mentor the Safety champions and direct report
• Deliver training and ensure the effectiveness through the business
• Daily and monthly safety walks across the sites
• Drive accountability for safety to the senior management team
• Review and develop all safety procedures and documentation
• Liaising with European colleagues and undertaking internal audits on other sites in the wider group
• Develop an aligned cultural and behavioural change programme and implement across the sites.
• Ensuing that ownership for H&S is driven to the workforce at a senior level and on across the factory where they are accountable for health and safety and it is at the forefront of people’s minds
• Experience in the maintenance of ISO standards, 45001 and 14001
• Champion safety across the multitude of complex projects that will be occurring this year
• Standardise the sites and reduce potential inconsistency

Qualifications and essential experience required :-

• NEBOSH certificate level as a minimum, ideally NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent
• Manufacturing or heavy industry experience (waste, quarrying, food manufacturing, bakery, foundry, chemicals, beverage manufacturing, packaging/ forestry/paper manufacturing)
• Multi-site experience

Ideal personality :-

• Confident communicator able to engage with gravitas when needed.
• Able to influence change, gain buy in from all levels of the business
• Proactive and pragmatic

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.