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Manufacturing Senior Health & Safety (HSE) Manager
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Manufacturing Senior Health & Safety (HSE) Manager
Application Deadline: 19 July 2026 Department: Health and Safety Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time Location: Poole Compensation: £60,000–£70,000 per year
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Role Overview
This is a leadership opportunity based across our Poole manufacturing facilities, where safety isn’t just policy—it’s embedded in every action. We’re seeking a dynamic, hands-on Senior HSE Manager who thrives in a fast-paced, operator-centric production environment.
Key to this role is your ability to:
- Mentor a skilled HSE team
- Drive cultural change across a matrix organisation
- Balance technical compliance with operator well-being
- Ensure our safety protocols align with legislation, training, and employee engagement
- Move from reactive compliance to proactive, data-led safety leadership
Key Responsibilities
Operational Safety & Engineering Compliance
- Develop, refine, and enforce health and safety management systems aligned with ISO 45001.
- Oversee creation, implementation, and review of:
- Machinery risk assessments
- Safe Systems of Work (SSOWs)
- COSHH assessments
- Represent Lush as the lead HSE stakeholder for site modifications, machine installations, and facility expansions, ensuring full adherence to CDM Regulations.
- Manage the permit-to-work system to ensure rigorous control over contractor compliance (engineering, maintenance, facility work).
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Culture, Training & Incident Management
- Day-to-day presence in manufacturing units to coach, mentor, challenge behaviours, and foster a red-flags-first safety culture.
- Conduct thorough incident/near-miss investigations, ensuring bullying, harassment, or whistleblowing concerns are handled in full compliance with the corporate whistleblowing procedure.
- Coach operators on personal protective equipment (PPE) and emergency response training.
- Oversee statutory site compliance, including:
- The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
- PAT/fixed-wire testing
- Life-safety systems maintenance.
- Author technical SOPs and machinery check sheets. Collaborate with production and training teams to ensure engaging, up-to-date safety inductions.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Data Strategy
- Partner with leadership to translate risk data into actionable insights for broader safety strategies.
- Collaborate with the People Team to scale HSE training platforms (current: Litmos) to standardise, digitise, and enhance safety reporting business-wide.
Requirements
Essential Skills & Experience
- NEBOSH Diploma (or Level 6 HSE equivalent) highly preferred. Candidates with the NEBOSH General Certificate plus senior leadership experience will be considered.
- Graduate (GradIOSH) or Chartered (CMIOSH) membership of IOSH – highly desirable.
- Proven leadership in HSE within a fast-paced manufacturing, FMCG, or industrial setting.
- Expert UK statutory HSE knowledge:
- Regulations (work-related illness, providing PPE, electrical safety)
- Environmental compliance
- Fire safety codes & lifebond management.
- Ability to:
- Communicate at all levels: Present risk trends to boards while coaching factory operators.
- Link data trends with what’s really happening on the shop floor.
- Drive culture change through empathy, rather than regulation.
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Why Lush? Our Benefits
- 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays.
- 6 months full pay for primary caregiver parental leave.
- Enhanced paternity leave.
- Profit-sharing Bonus Scheme.
- Day off for weekday birthdays.
- Holiday purchase scheme / Accrual agreement.
- 50% discount on Lush products, retail experience, and spa treatments.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Discounted rail and bus season tickets.
- Employee assistance programme and family support resources.
<i>Flexible working is a priority, so whether workplace adjustments or hybrid discussions, we’re open to conversations.</i>
- 10% employee ownership – be part of Lush’s ethical mission, share insights, and earn rewards tied to success.
- Holistic well-being support, including mindfulness sessions.
- Community Networks: Access to HR-supported groups for disability, LGBTQIA+, Neurodiversity, menopause, and other diversity initiatives.
- Tailored resources for gender-affirming support.
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