- Drive and maintain H&S compliance across two small, high risk manufacturing sites and drive industry best practice.
- Work hand in hand and offer support to the Environment Department
- Develop and maintain contacts with relevant H&S regulatory and industry organisations and actively participate in meetings and initiatives with them.
- Provide concise weekly and monthly reports to Directors and Shareholders
- Develop and mentor the Safety champions and direct report
- Deliver training and ensure the effectiveness through the business
- Daily and monthly safety walks across the sites
- Drive accountability for safety to the senior management team
- Review and develop all safety procedures and documentation
- Liaising with European colleagues and undertaking internal audits on other sites in the wider group
- Develop an aligned cultural and behavioural change programme and implement across the sites.
- Ensuing that ownership for H&S is driven to the workforce at a senior level and on across the factory where they are accountable for health and safety and it is at the forefront of people’s minds
- Experience in the maintenance of ISO standards, 45001 and 14001
- Champion safety across the multitude of complex projects that will be occurring this year
- Standardise the sites and reduce potential inconsistency
- NEBOSH certificate level as a minimum, ideally NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent
- Manufacturing or heavy industry experience (waste, quarrying, food manufacturing, bakery, foundry, chemicals, beverage manufacturing, packaging/ forestry/paper manufacturing)
- Multi-site experience
- Confident communicator able to engage with gravitas when needed.
- Able to influence change, gain buy in from all levels of the business
- Proactive and pragmatic