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Role: Health, Safety and Environmental Manager
Company: Established but growing food and beverage manufacturing company
Salary: £55,000–£70,000 per year + package
Location: Shepton Mallet, Somerset, can work from home for 1 day per week.
Do you want to shape HSE strategy and culture within a fast-paced production environment? Are you a senior, hands on HSE leader who wants to influence, engage with and empower the workforce? If so, this is the role for you…
Overview of the Position:
Seeking a credible and proactive Health, Safety and Environmental Manager to drive safety across this single but complex site. Supporting day to day operations and developing group strategy for this site.
- To manage 1 direct report, a HSE Coordinator offering coaching and development.
- This is a senior role for the company and will be a key member of the senior leadership team.
- To advise and challenge leaders, strengthen management ownership of operational risks and ensure that significant compliance issues are identified and addressed.
- Ensure compliance but also drive cultural change and encourage positive and proactive behaviours on site. Allowing the workforce to take accountability for safety.
- Manage the ESG agenda, development of environmental reporting, carbon accounting and the wider ESG strategy. With the future plan to roll out ISO 14001.
- Maintain oversight of environmental permits, regulatory submissions, waste duty of care, emissions, effluent, drainage, water, chemicals and pollution prevention.
- Lead audits, inspections, risk reviews, incident investigations and corrective-action follow-up.
- Set standards for risk assessments, safe systems of work and operational procedures across areas including COSHH, DSEAR, machinery safety, workplace transport, contractors, permits and occupational health.
- Provide HSE assurance for new plant, processes, chemicals, buildings and layouts, including management of change and relevant CDM duties.
- Own fire-safety governance, emergency preparedness, drills, maintenance evidence and contractor coordination.
- Coordinate auditable energy, fuel, water, waste and emissions data, supporting carbon-footprint development, EcoVadis, M2030, customer questionnaires and ESG reporting.
- Establish the HSE training and competence framework, promote employee participation and report performance, trends and material risks to senior leaders.
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Essential Background and Qualifications:
- Manufacturing background, ideally food, drink, beverage, dairy, baked goods, distillery, brewery, paper, packaging, textiles, tobacco.
- NEBOSH General Certificate or ideally Diploma or equivalent.
- Experience of ISO 14001 or ISO 45001, environmental permits, ESOS, carbon accounting, EcoVadis, SMETA or M2030 (very desirable).
Who Are We Looking For?
- Confident and credible safety professional who is proactive and resilient.
- Ability to interpret data and deliver this locally but more importantly someone who is communicative, collaborative and passionate.
- Able to coach and mentor others, in a positive and supportive way.
- Able to influence, gain buy-in and collaborate across departments able to bridge the gap between safety and operations.
Interested? Apply now for immediate consideration sophia.darwin@hserecruitment.co.uk // 0121 454 5000.
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