Health, Safety and Environmental Manager
This is a fantastic opportunity for a hands-on HSE Manager who enjoys turning strategy into results. The HSE roadmap is already in place – Refresco needs someone who can get out onto the factory floor, work alongside operational teams, influence behaviours, and drive a strong safety culture across the Bridgwater site. You'll lead the site's HSE improvement agenda, ensuring compliance, strengthening management systems, engaging with regulators including the Environment Agency, and partnering with both the leadership and operations teams to deliver measurable improvements.
Location
Bridgwater
Hours
Monday – Friday 38 hours
Reward & Benefits
- Annual bonus and regular pay reviews
- An enhanced company pension contribution
- Early Friday finish to kick‑start your weekend
- 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase additional leave, increasing your allowance to 31 days plus bank holidays
- Life assurance coverage
- Personal healthcare cover, including 24/7 virtual GP access for your family
- Free eye‑care vouchers and discounted glasses
- Employee referral scheme with bonuses for successful referrals
- GroceryAid support services offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical guidance
- Cheers benefits platform providing discounts, free perks, and wellbeing tools
- Free onsite parking and discounted products
About the Role
The HSE Manager will provide full support to the operations team to ensure leadership and management of the safety programme with the utlimate aim of delivering the UK’s HSE improvement agenda. To drive a consistent approach across all HSE activities on the Refresco site. Driving forward the HSE management systems by influencing the management team, whilst working with the operations team to ensure compliance. To liaise with other HSE Expert teams and the Head of Health, Safety and Enviroment for the UK to ensure consistency and best practise between sites. You will be required to compile complaince reports and laise with regulators such as the Enviromental Agency
Key areas of focus
- Support and improve site Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) systems and compliance.
- Provide practical HSE guidance and support to managers and employees.
- Promote a proactive safety culture through audits, risk assessments and safety initiatives.
- Lead incident investigations and support continuous improvement activities.
- Manage HSE reporting, KPIs, audits, emergency preparedness and PPE compliance.
- Work with site teams and HR to support environmental and occupational health objectives
We’re looking for
The ideal candidate will have a NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent), a minimum of five years' experience in an HSE Officer or similar role within a busy manufacturing or engineering environment, and a proven track record of empowering others to achieve excellent HSE performance through the design and implementation of effective safety initiatives across both blue- and white-collar workforce.
Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.
If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!
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