QHSE Manager

Location: Christchurch

Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:15 am - 5:00 pm, fully office-based

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary and Benefits: Salary up to £50,000 per annum, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, Free on-site parking, Pension scheme

Our client is a very successful, well established, and team spirited business in Christchurch. Their success has been recognised with various awards for exceptional work in their industry having worked on many projects around the UK and across the world. They are recruiting an exciting new QHSE Manager role. This position is integral in creating a "Safety First" approach across all areas of the business as well as maintaining the Company’s ISO standards and ensuring legal health & safety compliance. In this key role, you will take a collaborative teamwork approach to working with colleagues around the business for continuous improvement. You will be required to undertake safety inspections in the factory as well as at various UK construction sites.

Main Responsibilities for the QHSE Manager:

• Adhere to, and promote, Company core values.
• Lead by example in this: Safety First - carry out activities with safety as the first consideration; ensure that health & safety reports are made and dealt with; share the quarterly QHSE communication.
• No blame, open to change - engage in internal investigations in a collaborative, problem solving manner; identify the root cause of problems.
• Transparency and openness - share appropriate news from management meetings with team; respond to ideas, questions and suggestions.
• One Team / Teamwork - take an objective approach to line management; support team members yet hold them accountable for their performance, create an inclusive teamwork culture with good communication.
• Follow HR procedures to manage your team: train and develop, recognize and reward achievement, manage absence and under performance. Complete performance appraisals in the timescale defined.
• Fully understand and monitor the Company’s health & safety policies to ensure they are adhered to and are reviewed with the Managing Director on a regular basis.
• Manage and deliver the Company’s Business Management Systems, including monitoring Non-Conformity/Deviation Requests.
• Conduct inspections in office, workshops, delivery and despatch areas and construction sites to check that the Company’s policies and procedures are being properly implemented. Find an acceptable solution or escalate if they are not being adhered to.
• Keep records of inspection findings and produce reports that suggest improvements.
• Keep up to date on legislation, codes of practice and guidance notes and report to the Managing Director where there are developments that affect the Company or where improvements should be made.
• Assess and report the Company’s compliance with legal and other requirements for which you are responsible.
• Carry out investigations into accidents, incidents and near misses (as defined by Company procedure).
• Support line managers in determining safe operational procedures in collaboration with their reports.
• Assist line managers with the creation and monitoring of risk assessments and COSHH assessments. Consider how risks can be eliminated.
• Monitor the safe disposal of hazardous substances.
• Carry out regular drills to test emergency evacuation and other Health & Safety and Environmental procedures.
• Coordinate internal audits and prepare the Company for external audits.
• Liaise with heads of discipline in offices, factory and construction sites to ensure audit actions are closed out and to encourage continuous improvement.
• Prepare and present management reports in line with the timescales laid out in the management systems.

Minimum Skills and Requirements of the QHSE Manager:

• Experience in a manufacturing, engineering or construction environment would be advantageous.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team to ensure legal compliance and to generate continuous improvement.
• Excellent communicator - with team members around the business.
• Effective leadership skills to create an effective QHSE team and drive QHSE requirements throughout the business.
• Commercial awareness in decision making.
• Strong time management.
• Attention to detail.
• A NEBOSH Level 6 diploma is desirable.

This QHSE Manager job in Christchurch would suit candidates who have excellent communication skills, and previous experience in a similar role.

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