Company: Fast paced, high risk, food manufacturing company
Role: Safety Health and Environment Manager
Salary: GBP 65,000 per annum to GBP 75,000 per annum + GBP 12,000 car allowance + bonus + competitive pension
Location: Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
We are exclusively representing a global FMCG brand with a strong UK presence, sourcing a SHE Manager for our centre of excellence in Tutbury. The successful candidate will have creative control to shape the future of SHE, develop a robust team and build a legacy at one of the largest and most advanced manufacturing sites in the group.
Seeking a true leader to guide the site, who will sit on the senior leadership team that views SHE as a performance driver, not a bolt‑on. The role involves strategic direction and practical delivery, coaching and mentoring a team of three safety professionals based on site.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead the next phase of SHE development across the factory, helping leaders at every level build a workplace where people thrive and performance follows.
- Work alongside the Factory Manager and leadership team, providing challenge, support and strategic direction to ensure SHE considerations are embedded in operational, technical and business decisions.
- Shape the factory’s vision, objectives and long‑term ambitions alongside the leadership team.
- Develop leadership capability and accountability across all functions.
- Drive cultural and organisational change that strengthens ownership of SHE throughout the business.
- Identify future risks, opportunities and priorities that support sustainable performance improvement.
- Build engagement and commitment across employees, contractors and stakeholders.
- Lead and develop a team of SHE professionals, helping grow the next generation of SHE talent.
- Act as a trusted adviser and coach to leaders across the factory.
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent is ideal but not essential if you can demonstrate exceptional leadership, influencing and change‑management experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Prior SHE and risk‑management experience.
- Strong strategic expertise, combined with hands‑on ability when required.
- Fast‑paced general manufacturing, production experience—ideally from a food or beverage company.
- Experienced coach and mentor who can achieve success through others.
Ideal Personality Traits
- Self‑motivated, confident person.
- Ability to influence others and establish trusted relationships.
- Change agent who can engage and empower others, driving accountability and ownership across factory leaders and multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to collaborate, influence and gain buy‑in with strong communication skills.
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