Health & Safety Manager in Whitby

Scope of Role: Whitby Site and Associated Activities

Location: Office Based

Reporting To: Operations Director

Deputies: Any nominated Nebosh Certificate holder

Internal Customers: Line Managers, H&S Committee, Board of Directors, Seafood Social, Individual Employees

External Stakeholders: Insurers, Local Authorities, HSE, Suppliers

Company Values:

• Doing the Right Thing
• Trusting Each Other
• Empowering Others
• All One Team
• Responsibility
• Honesty
• Prioritization
• Mutual Benefit
• Fairness
• Integrity
• Respect
• Courage
• Accountability
• Growth
• Improvement
• Empathy
• Abundance
• Diversity

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand what working the Whitby Way means for H&S to bring it to life through your behaviours.
• Work cross functionally to shape and take ownership for the Health and Safety improvement plan making direct links to the delivery of the company strategy.
• Develop and maintain the H&S management system within the scope of legality, morality and financial viability.
• Ownership of the development and maintenance of the electronic H&S system that supports daily H&S improvement activity.
• Reporting to external parties in relation to our legal obligations.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with internal customers to deliver their objectives as part of the wider business agenda.
• Establish relationships with external stakeholders to ensure the ongoing smooth operation of the business.
• Involvement in departmental continuous improvement systems, providing a H&S perspective to ensure a H&S culture throughout the business.
• Be a Leader and role model, living the Company Values.

Essential Experience:

• Working in a Health and Safety leadership position
• Achieving results across departments without direct authority
• An understanding of continuous improvement methods
• Working in an FMCG environment

Desirable Experience:

• Working in food manufacturing environment covering 24-hour operations
• An understanding of working with insurance providers
• Working to the HSG65 standard
• Familiarity with RoSPA QSA audits

Essential Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills both internally and externally
• Being able to quickly build relationships to facilitate problem solving
• Organisational and self-discipline skills
• Having the ability to plan own time effectively to deliver immediate and longer-term requirements of the H&S management system while role-modeling personal health and wellbeing
• Systems thinking: using systems thinking to identify gaps in performance, creating or improving processes to drive continuous improvement
• Analytical skills: using and interpreting data systems to track and improve performance
• Engagement skills: presenting findings and coaching others to build capability in Health and Safety
• Literacy skills: writing and amending policies and procedures in a manner fitting with the “Whitby Way”

Qualifications:

• Nebosh Certificate – Essential
• Nebosh Diploma – Desirable

What Good Looks Like:

• Ongoing development of the H&S culture within the Whitby Site.
• The person will use the RoSPA QSA audit to externally benchmark the H&S management system to drive long-term improvement in performance, developing actions to close gaps identified.
• Leading without direct authority, the H&S Manager will create effective relationships with other leaders across the business to help empower those nearest the work to play their part in the functioning of the H&S management system.
• The individual will have oversight of the quality of the inputs and outputs of Papaya, ensuring best practice is implemented in this system.
• Having an outgoing and team-based outlook, the individual will work the Whitby Way to deliver effective win-win outcomes for both internal and external customers.

Scheduled Meetings Attended:

• Monthly Health and Safety Committee Meeting
• Weekly Group Health and Safety Teams Meeting
• Regular attendance at Tier 2, 3 and 4 meetings
• Scheduled 1-1’s with Manager

Roadmap – Health and Safety Management System:

• Using RoSPA audit as a guideline, continue to enhance the group H&S management system.
• Win hearts and minds of people expected to interact with it to build a user-centric system that is sustainable in the long term.
• Consider the requirements of NI law in the development of the group H&S management system.

Roadmap – Other areas of the business:

• Use networking skills to keep abreast of company strategy and, where relevant, make positive H&S interventions to avoid firefighting further down the line.
• Bring in external expertise where required (from organisations such as BFFF) to enhance other projects within the business.

Training / skills enhancement:

• Behavioural development using programmes such as Franklin Covey, Belbin and True North Excellence
• Professional development by joining the BFFF H&S members group and attending IOSH events
• Professional development by identifying areas of opportunity within circle of influence