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Job Title: Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Manager
Industry: Medical Device Manufacturing
Location: Winsford
Position Type: 5 Month Fixed Term Contract
Salary: 70,000 - 80,000 per annum (29,116 - 33,333 pro rata)
About The Company
Join a pioneering team at a UK-based company specializing in advanced wound care and wound closure products. An organisation dedicated to developing and manufacturing world-leading solutions that enhance patient care. With a wealth of resources and specialized expertise, they offer a unique opportunity to be part of a team involved in every aspect of product design, development, and manufacture.
Job Description
Overview
To ensure the Health & Safety of all employees across the businesses in the UK, with specific focus on the role holders assigned operational division.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive a culture of "Safety First" and "Zero Harm".
- To ensure that activities within the appointed operational division do not pose any danger to the environment and promote sustainable practices and process.
- Developing a culture of "Safety First" and "Zero Harm".
- Coaching and developing of employees at all levels in relation to EHSS areas, by walking the shopfloor, coaching, and developing staff to be "Safety Ambassadors".
- Driving expected EHSS standards to reduce and mitigate risk of accident/incident/losses to meet business objectives, moving towards a "Zero Harm" environment.
- Maintain and develop following continual improvement environmental, health, safety and sustainable (EHSS) working conditions for all employees. Following EHS objectives and Group development plans.
- Working with the r leadership teams to ensure industry leading working practices are developed and become habitual.
- Drive Compliance with Appropriate Management systems and local/international legislation.
- Supporting and championing both internal and external audits and certifications (ISO 14001 & ISO 50001).
- Liaise with external enforcement agencies in allocated operational areas to ensure correct working practices are employed and no adverse risks and/or prosecutions are brought.
- Ensure reported EHSS events at all levels are reported, investigated, analysed for route cause and where appropriate corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence are instigated.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all areas of EHSS, where required to develop working practices.
- Lead and manage both Group and divisional EHSS initiatives with site and divisional leadership teams.
- Lead internal and external site audits and visits where these relate to EHSS activity.
- Ensure compliance with both Local, National, and where appropriate international EHSS legislation, sharing information, knowledge, and good practice.
- Conduct regular planned and unplanned audits of sites/processes and projects within area of control.
- Project Management and/or support for Divisional and local EHSS projects.
- Oversight and supporting Management of key EHSS related activities at all divisional locations, including COSHH, Risk Assessment and Environmental matters.
- Production of monthly and other requested EHSS management reports, project updates.
- Determine and drive risk reduction activity.
- Ensuring training needs are EHSS activity are identified, and appropriate plans put in place were required.
- To develop divisional EHSS forecasts and support the wider Group EHSS forecast in the planning's, processes, and cost allocation of EHSS activities.
- Work with Directors of divisional area providing support, challenge, coaching and direction, whilst managing their own time and resource.
- Support in HR activities such as investigations, disciplinary and grievance processes in relation to EHSS matters.
- Ensure divisional locations have in place contractor, permits to work and visitor processes. Through auditing and review processes.
- Where required working Occupational Health providers.
- Understand and deliver change management processes.
- Able to make effective decisions to deliver corporate Objectives.
- Develop and responsible for controlling Divisional EHSS forecasts and budget.
- Company requirements to comply with any applicable legislation.
- Where serious or imminent danger is found or suspected the ability to stop process/production or location undertaking such activity until safety and environmental expectations/actions have been met.
- In the areas of EHSS to raise immediately to the Senior Manager any areas of immediate concern which could require the implementation of the Group Crisis Management Process.
Qualifications
- Qualified to appropriate diploma/NVQ/Trade or Technical level.
- Health, Safety and Environmental Knowledge in Manufacturing - Medical Device Environment (Preferred).
- Member of a recognised EHSS organisation (IOSH/IEMA)
- Pro-active in keeping up to date with both local and international EHSS developments, potential process changes and upcoming changes in applicable legislation.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft and EHS software packages.
- Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively orally and in writing to a wide and varied audience.
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively relying on developed skills and knowledge to achieve EHSS objectives.
- Ability to analyse business needs and make recommendations based on sound business knowledge and commercial acumen.
- Ability to respond flexibly to change, sometime at short notice.
- Understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and proprietary data and systems.
Benefits
- Annual incentive bonus
- Life Cover
- Penson contribution up to 6%
- Dental Insurance
- Employee share scheme
