EHS Manager in Rugby

Main Purpose of the Position: Reporting to the Plant Manager, the HS&E Manager jobholder is responsible for the effective running of the plant HS&E department to ensure that the plant meets all of its company and legislative obligations. The jobholder will act as a central coordination for environmental and health & safety activity, including management systems and is accountable for rolling out company-wide environmental and health & safety initiatives. You will work closely with the senior leadership team to deliver the highest quality standards, whilst promoting a positive safety culture and ensuring safety on-site. All plant shop floor personnel have a dotted line into the HS&E Manager regarding health and safety and environmental issues.

Key Objectives:

• Health & Safety:
• Ensure the plant is compliant with all H&S, company and legislative requirements, via company policies, procedures and systems and external Health & Safety Regulations ensuring the Plant remains compliant.
• Promote safe working practices and be a role model within the plant for this subject.
• Stay abreast of environmental and health & safety legislation and create robust management systems to proactively ensure the plant complies with such legislation.
• Ensure plant management are aware and informed of legislative requirements and that they are translated into actions and included in the management system.
• Responsible for developing, integrating and maintaining environmental and health & safety management systems across all plant personnel, visitors, contractors and temps, etc. to ensure compliance with all requirements.
• In conjunction with HR, ensure that ALL employees and/or temps receive suitable environmental and health & safety training, including inductions to site.
• Develop and progress the site annual safety plan, environmental management programme and FSPP.
• Develop and maintain a risk assessment programme across the site.
• Responsible and accountable for operating within plant health & safety budget and environmental budget targets.
• Ensure relevant corrective action is taken, as required, for all equipment and operational problems/potential problems to maintain and improve the EH&S operation.
• Participate in the behavioural based safety programme, train employees and monitor data.
• Timely accident investigation and reporting to all relevant internal/external parties and to the Plant Management team and highlight necessary corrective actions.
• Review all health, safety & environment and fire incidents and keep the Plant Manager informed.
• Maintain and develop the site accreditation status with external bodies for environmental and health & safety activities.
• Liaise with HR for identification and management of health issues as they arise to ensure that our employees are not subjected to unnecessary risks.
• Ensure that adequate arrangements exist to cover the absence of personnel with key environmental and health & safety responsibilities.
• Co-ordinate with all personnel to actively seek and follow-up on their suggestions for the purpose of environmental, fire and health & safety continuous improvement.
• Ensure that all employees fully understand their individual obligations – at all times.
• Co-ordinate and carry out Health & Safety, environmental and fire audits in compliance with the audit program and relevant ISO standards.
• Ensure that all necessary environmental records are generated and maintained.
• Collate records and disseminate information on Company and Corporate health, safety & environment and fire matters especially relative to prevention of incidents.
• Participate in the management review process.
• Lead multi-disciplined health, safety & environment meetings in order to review health, safety & environment status and assign responsibilities.
• Liaise with regulatory authorities and ensure that their requirements are dealt with efficiently and as appropriate liaise with senior management involved.
• Flexibility to non-normal situations is expected.
• Ad hoc project work as required.
• Carry out all instructions from the Plant Manager with regards to health & safety and the management thereof.
• Environmental:
• Manage all topics related to Environmental legislation in the IMS system within the plant including the relationship with the Environmental Authorities (DEFRA).
• Ensure all legal compliance and plant systems are kept up to date.
• Manage all Environmental audits against the relevant standard and follow-up of any audit issues.
• Manage the Environmental meetings to include any actions.
• Establishing and implementation of procedures.
• Energy & Sustainability:
• Manage all plant energy reduction programs.
• Manage the Rugby Plant’s “Big Six” and GGI Index programs.
• Promote benchmarking and using best practices and ensure benchmarking activities are implemented.
• Ensure all required reports are produced in a timely manner.
• Prepare and supervise periodical reviews of the sustainability program.
• Analyse the consumption of energy and utilities in the plant.
• Co-operate with the local Plant Team and Technical Centre Bonn with relation to energy and environment issues.
• Develop working methods in order to maximize the effectiveness of BPE sustainability program.
• Generate Energy Reports & Assessments to reduce Energy costs and identify improvement opportunities.

Scope of Position:

• Budgets Responsible for: Plant Health & Safety and Environmental budget.
• Contacts within BPE: Rugby Plant Management team, Director H&S/ EMS & other Swiss Toller contacts.
• External Contacts: Ensure excellent co-operation with the Swiss Principal and all Limited Risk Distributors as defined in service level agreements. Various external agencies including environmental agencies, local schools, colleges, businesses.

Professional Requirements:

• Qualifications: H&S Qualification with engineering background, ideally with engineering or food technology-based degree.
• Languages: Fluency in English.
• Computer Skills: Competent in MS Office applications, ideally with SAP and QA systems including Microsoft Packages, SAP, Ena-blon, Analyse, Prisma, Win CC, SharePoint and Infinity.
• Previous Job / Project Experience: Complete Production/ Technical knowledge of a high speed manufacturing environment.