Health and Safety Manager

Health and Safety Manager – ALPLA UK – Manufacturing Golborne Location (WA3) Monday to Friday – Salaried up to £60,000 + Excellent Benefits

Benefits package: Annual Bonus, Generous pension contributions, Life Assurance, Employee Christmas vouchers, PerkBox – High Street brand discounts, Long service awards, Subsidised onsite canteen.

At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world. Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 45 countries.

Purpose: The Health & Safety Manager will be responsible for managing Health, Safety and Environment Management systems and activities across production and warehouse facilities. The H&S Manager will lead safety across the site identifying hazards, reducing risk and preventing accidents. Reporting directly into Plant Manager, supporting wider H&S Team including Coordinator and H&S Administrator.

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Advise all levels of the site, providing technical support and motivating stakeholders to follow proper administration of health, safety and environmental programs.
• Implement ALPLA programs, apply relevant technical guidance and control physical, chemical, electrical, mechanical and ergonomic hazards and potential risk from the operations.
• Arrange Health & Safety training for all plant employees and communicate tool box talks.
• Promote a positive HSE culture amongst all employee groups, engaging stakeholders when appropriate.
• Facilitate a risk assessment programme for continuous review.
• Present incidents, near miss and injuries data for the management morning meeting and take corrective actions.
• Arrange external risk assessments and surveys.
• Ensure the management team undertake the management of change and impact assessments prior to variation affecting health, safety and environment.
• Participate in the management review process.
• Arrange a schedule of internal audits and reporting against the ISO45001 standard.
• Chair a programme of health and safety committee meetings.
• Other site team responsibilities and projects as may arise.

Education / Experience:

• Relevant qualification in HSE, NEBOSH Diploma / certificate.
• Substantial Health and Safety management experience within a FMCG organisation (ideally plastics / packaging) with knowledge and exposure to Distribution/ Warehousing function.
• Experience of a multi-site role with exposure to a variety of production machinery and associated ancillary equipment.
• Experience of managing external parties and 3rd party contractors.
• Extensive Knowledge of health and safety standards working within ISO14001 and 45001 frameworks.
• Excellent MS Office user experience.
• Ability to analyse rules and guidance to assess business impact.
• Identify and analyse organisational needs with solid problem solving to provide pragmatic solutions.
• Line management experience.
• Confident and professional with the ability to inspire and motivate people.

Our new perk box offering a wealth of benefits such as:

• Money off purchases such as food, drink, cinema tickets, clothing, and homeware and so much more.
• A number of freebies across the perk box site, such as free coffees.
• Online access to free exercise and yoga classes with 24/7 access to qualified therapists.

Please apply to this position for immediate review – contact Kerry McCormick – Internal Recruiter - for more information.