Environment, Health and Safety Lead in Rugeley

Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK

Contract / Shift: Permanent, Monday – Friday with some flexibility for shift contact

The package includes: a starting salary from £35,000 per year, discretionary performance‑related bonus, a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including access to salary sacrifice EV scheme and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

This is a prominent role across our Rugeley and Fradley sites, where you’ll shape culture, embed leading indicators, and ensure safety is part of our identity. We’re a well‑invested business, open to new ideas and practical technology that genuinely reduces risk. This is more than managing compliance!

The role

You’ll manage the SHEQ agenda across two busy manufacturing sites handling powdered animal nutritional products, ensuring robust compliance whilst facilitating our behaviour‑led safety culture. This is not a desk‑bound role. You’ll be present on the shop floor, coaching teams, challenging constructively, recognising great behaviours, and partnering closely with operations and engineering leaders to deliver meaningful, lasting improvements.

What You’ll Be Doing

• You will be a visible safety leader across both sites and across all shifts
• Enhancing and tracking leading safety indicators and encouraging positive safety conversations
• Maintaining and improving SHEQ systems aligned to ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001
• Coaching leaders and colleagues to embed “safety as second nature”
• Ensuring reporting systems translate learnings into actions
• Investigate how technology and equipment can improve safety outcomes

What We’re Looking For

• Demonstrated EHS leadership experience within manufacturing, logistics, or other industrial environments
• NEBOSH qualified with solid working knowledge of UK H&S legislation
• Experience refining and maintaining ISO‑aligned management systems
• History of ensuring compliance and positively reinforcing safety culture
• Ability to engage stakeholders at all levels, empathy, tenacity and attention to detail will be key personal traits.
• Experience in powdered manufacturing, animal nutrition, or highly automated production environments is advantageous but not essential.

What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose‑driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.

We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.