Health, Safety & Environmental Manager in Royal Leamington Spa

Company Description

AGA Rangemaster Ltd is an international premium consumer brands group that designs, manufactures, and distributes renowned kitchen appliances and sinks. Its portfolio includes AGA, Rangemaster, Falcon, Rayburn, Leisure Sinks, and Mercury, all known for heritage, technical excellence, and innovation.

Since 2026, AGA Rangemaster has been a part of Composition Brands, a global portfolio of iconic kitchen and home brands dedicated to elevating the heart of the home through design, craftsmanship, and performance. We exist to honour the heritage of iconic brands while elevating the heart of the home for generations to come, guided by timeless design, uncompromising quality, and authentic craftsmanship that together promise reliability, performance, and enduring beauty.

Role Purpose

To lead, develop, and continuously improve Health, Safety and Environmental performance at the Leamington Spa manufacturing facility. The HSE Manager will take a hands on, coaching-led approach to ensure compliance with all legislative requirements and to dramatically improve the site’s safety culture, ensuring advancement of the ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System. The role supports a fast-paced manufacturing operation including press machines, assembly areas, and warehouse/logistics.

Key Responsibilities

• Set and deliver the site Health & Safety action plan, creating a deployment plan and strategy aligned to business objectives and group standards.
• Lead by example with visible shopfloor leadership. Demonstrating strong standards, practical problem solving, and consistent follow-through.
• Coach, mentor, and guide employees, team leaders, and managers to build ownership and accountability for safety at all levels.
• Set Safety Strategy, Leadership & Culture (Lead by Example)
• Create a comprehensive site training plan, based on a continuously updated site risk assessment, and a delivery model (self, through the team, and third parties)
• Shape a proactive, modern safety culture using contemporary techniques (e.g., safety coaching, behavioural safety principles, human factors, learning teams, high-quality near-miss reporting and learning).
• Embrace a ‘stop work’ approach to ensure a safety first workplace, ensuring colleagues and leadership are empowered to act to stop and prevent unsafe acts or conditions.
• Build the competencies of the team onsite, ensuring team leaders and members are able to create and train on local risk assessments
• Chair/lead the site safety committee and ensure actions are prioritised, resourced, and closed out effectively.

Compliance & Risk Management (Manufacturing Focus)

• Ensure compliance with all relevant UK Health & Safety legislation and applicable standards (e.g., HASAWA, MHSWR, PUWER, LOLER, COSHH, Workplace Regs, Fire Safety Order; DSEAR where applicable).
• Ensure risk assessments are created, maintained, and continuously improved to deliver safe systems of work across areas include but not limited to:
  • Press machines (guarding, interlocks, tooling changes, LOTO/isolation, noise, manual handling)
  • Assembly areas (ergonomics, repetitive work, workstation design, electrical test areas as applicable)
  • Warehouse/logistics (FLT & pedestrian segregation, racking safety, loading bays, storage controls)
  • Maintenance and contractors (permit-to-work, isolation/LOTO, work at height, hot works)
  • Lead site inspections/audits and manage corrective/preventive actions through to completion.
  • Home delivery team

Continuous Improvement & Capability Building

• Identify weaknesses and opportunities for continual improvement using audits, data trends, shopfloor engagement, and employee feedback.
• Embed safety into operational routines and CI/Lean activities (tier meetings, daily management, Gemba walks, problem-solving).
• Create practical, shopfloor-ready standards and communications (toolbox talks, visual management, safety alerts, learning briefs).
• Lead and support incident and near-miss investigations using structured root cause analysis (e.g., 5 Whys, fishbone, ICAM/TapRooT as appropriate).
• Ensure investigations focus on system improvement and sustainable corrective actions.
• Communicate learning effectively across the site and verify that actions prevent recurrence.

ISO 45001 Management System

• Maintain, improve, and ensure ongoing compliance with the site’s ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System.
• Own and manage key system elements including document control, operational controls, internal audit programme, corrective action management, and management review inputs/outputs.
• Support external certification and surveillance audits, ensuring audit readiness, strong evidence, and timely closure of findings.

Required Experience & Qualifications - Essential

• Proven Health & Safety management experience in a manufacturing environment, with strong exposure to press machines, assembly operations, and warehouse/logistics.
• Minimum NEBOSH qualification (e.g., NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent).
• Demonstrable experience maintaining and improving an OH&S management system—ISO 45001 essential (internal audits, corrective actions, management review).
• Strong working knowledge of UK H&S legislation and practical application in a factory setting.
• Proven ability to use leading indicators to drive proactive improvement and lagging data to identify trends and predict risk.
• Strong accident investigation capability with evidence of delivering sustained corrective actions.
• Ability to influence and guide teams in a fast-paced organisation, balancing pace with control and compliance.
• NEBOSH Diploma (or working towards); IOSH membership (TechIOSH/GradIOSH/CMIOSH).
• Internal/Lead Auditor training for ISO 45001.
• Experience in ergonomics/manual handling improvement and/or human factors approaches.

Skills & Behaviours (What Success Looks Like)

• Visible, credible leadership. Sets standards and earns trust on the shopfloor.
• Coaching and mentoring approach. Builds capability and ownership in managers and teams.
• Analytical and forward-looking. Spots weak signals, predicts trends, prioritises by risk and data.
• Pragmatic and solutions focused. Controls are effective, workable, and sustained.
• High integrity and consistency. Compliance is non-negotiable, learning is continuous.