Health, Safety & Facility Manager in Manchester

The position of Health, Safety and Facility Manager will lead the delivery of health, safety and facility management across 3 UK sites. The role is responsible for ensuring legal compliance, driving continuous improvement in EHS performance and embedding a strong safety culture across the organisation. Lead the UK H&S team and act as the subject matter expert for all health, safety and facility related matters.

What You'll Do

• Oversee the H&S team across UK (3 sites) and drive team development.
• Act as the competent person under the Health & Safety at Work Act.
• Lead the H&S strategy and continuous improvement roadmap and ensure legal compliance across UK sites.
• Provide expert advice to the site leadership team on risk and compliance.
• Oversee in the preparation of corporate H&S assessments/management plans.
• Support and lead responses to customer & corporate ESG group requests for information.
• Support with, and ensure timely completion of incident investigations and reporting by line managers.
• Manage and develop H&S communications and training content as required.
• Support and coordinate internal audits of ISO9001, ISO13485 & H&S compliance.
• Provide updates to site health & safety KPI data (reporting of accidents, incidents and near miss data).
• Oversee SOP's and give guidance with risk assessments.
• Manage health & safety training for new starters.
• Lead monthly health & safety meetings as part of the health & safety committee.
• Hold responsibility for Facility Management across all sites. Oversee maintenance, compliance and contractor management and support business continuity planning (BCP).
• Liase and arrange with external organisations and contractors on; equipment inspections i.e. LOLER and PUWER, insurance visits and inspections, Fire Risk assessments, etc.
• Manage site infrastructure changes and layout planning.
• Assess requirements and provide RAMS and Permits to Work for the Manchester site as needed, while supporting the UK HSE representative at sister sites (Wotton/UKBC) in delivering the same within their business unit.
• Arrange and facilitate HSE based training for employees i.e. Manual handling, FLT, working at height, IPAF, First Aid, Fire Marshal - in line with current legislation.

What You'll Bring

• Strong leadership capabilities and experience of working with and influencing a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience of managing a team.
• Highly results driven with a strong track record of delivering outcomes.
• Experience of working with data producing different ways to present data.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office suite of programs (Word, Outlook, Teams etc).
• An awareness of Training, Auditing and Compliance in Health & Safety.
• Ideally multi-site experience.
• Working within an ISO 9001 Quality Assurance system & ISO 13485 - Quality Management for Medical Devices ideal.
• Positive and optimistic within a fast growing organisation.
• Strong written and verbal communicator.
• Self-motivated in the pursuit of EH&S objectives.
• Ability to work as part of a larger team.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH general certificate (essential).
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent (desirable).
• Membership of IOSH.