As an Interim Quality, Environment, and Health & Safety Director, you will provide strategic leadership, governance and technical excellence across QEHS for the UK, ensuring robust deployment of company standards, protection of consumers and brands, and the advancement of a prevention-driven culture, while driving continuous improvement across sites and with partners.
Client Details
An FMCG manufacturer in Gloucestershire.
Description
This interim Quality, Environment, and H&S Director role is a strategic leadership position working with expert managers across the site in Gloucestershire and other locations. You will:
Lead end-to-end Quality, Food Safety & Technical Governance ensuring full compliance with company standards, regulations and best practices.
Deploy initiatives to safeguard product integrity, vulnerability assessments, food defence and fraud prevention.
Own QEHS management systems and certifications (e.g., ISO, FSSC, AIB), sustaining operational excellence and audit readiness.
Guarantee robust end-to-end traceability from raw materials to finished goods for rapid issue response.
Lead technical and service teams for new product industrialisation and oversee incident management framework including escalation, root cause analysis, containment, CAPA and continuous improvement tools.
Champion and lead full deployment of the EHS programme to build a proactive, prevention-driven culture focused on behaviours and risk elimination.
Embed EHS principles into daily operations with site leaders and frontline teams to strengthen awareness, accountability and safe decision-making.
Drive EHS strategy through structured cultural transformation including leadership visibility, safety conversations, observations and coaching.
Ensure full compliance with environmental and safety regulations, managing waste, wastewater, recycling, emissions control and resource efficiency.
Strengthen risk prevention, governance and performance tracking including hazard identification, risk assessments, near-miss reporting, safe systems of work and leading indicators.
Shape and drive the QEHS strategy and roadmap for the UK business ensuring alignment with company direction and business needs.
Provide financial leadership and oversight of QEHS variable spend including contracted services, laboratories and technical programmes.
Build organisation capability through engagement, development, talent management and succession plann...
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