Vital Energi
SHEQ Manager
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SHEQ Manager
Start your sustainable career with Vital Energi at Port Clarence! We’re transforming Energy from Waste, helping power local communities, and protecting the planet for future generations. Join us and be part of the future of energy.
The Opportunity
We’re excited to announce that we’re looking for a SHEQ Manager at our new energy from waste infrastructure, Port Clarence biomass facility in Teesside.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced SHEQ professional who will be responsible for driving cultural change and promoting Safety, Health, Quality, and Environmental aspects at the EfW facility.
Responsibilities
- Lead professional safety and quality aspects, additionally providing lead support on environmental direction at the EfW site, where a culture of safety and regulatory compliance comes before operational efficiency, thus ensuring that safety & environmental risks are effectively identified, managed, and monitored.
- Add value to the EfW facility by coaching managers and employees to fully engage in, and actively promote, sound SHEQ working practices, as well as identifying areas of improvement on the site.
About the Role
- Positively influences thinking and behaviours so that the site personnel engage, promote, and understand the benefits of good SHEQ practice.
- Responsible for frontline SHEQ advice at site. Motivate, coach, and encourage all site personnel in SHEQ matters. Influence and support improvements of SHEQ performance and engagement throughout both the site’s internal and external customer base.
- Drives and supports business ownership of SHEQ reporting, investigations, and effective monitoring.
- Takes appropriate and robust action for any failings with standards and expectations.
- Assists site Management team in managing a Safe System of Work (SSOW) and Permit To Work (PTW) system for general site safety and safety from the system across the facility.
- Conducts risk reviews, gap assessments, site inspections accompanied with the Regional SHEQ Advisor to identify non-conformance and enable site to address areas of concern.
- Manages the document control process at site in accordance with site ISO accredited BMS and Company systems and standards.
- Supports and generates robust analysis of information to inform effective decision making and action plans.
- Encourages innovative ways of working and challenging existing operational practices to continually enhance and drive SHEQ excellence.
- Assists in ensuring that the site operates within its legal safety obligations, its environmental permit conditions, and other permissions relevant to site, where any unsafe acts or environmental breaches are brought to the Company’s attention.
- Positively influences thinking and behaviours so that the site personnel engage, promote, and understand the benefits of good SHEQ practice.
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The Person
Education/experience:
- Strong practical understanding of relevant UK Health, Safety & Environmental legislation.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Energy from Waste, waste management, or a similar regulated industry.
Qualifications:
- BSc or equivalent in an environment degree.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Energy from Waste, waste management, or a similar regulated industry.
- Strong practical understanding of relevant UK Health, Safety & Environmental legislation.
- Fully conversant with ISO 9001, 14001, ISO 18001.
- Familiarity in implementing, managing, and developing fit-for-purpose and compliant QMS ISO9001 / ISO14001 / OHSAS18001.
- Familiar with BSEN: 14181 air emissions monitoring & CEMS operation.
- Understanding of DSEAR/COMAH/ATEX/LOLER/PUWER/HAVS/PSSR/PED/PPE/RPE.
- Principal Designer, Client or experience of CDM works.
- NEBOSH general certificate and working towards NEBOSH Diploma.
- COTC L4 with EfW accreditation units.
- IT literate with advanced competency in MS Excel and Word for report and spreadsheet production.
- Membership of IOSH (minimum Technician level).
- Member of IEMA / CIWM / WAMITAB.
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Additional Requirements:
- Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time-limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK.
Company Policy:
- The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training, and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability, or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.
Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:
Vital Energi Utilities Ltd is not accepting unsolicited CVs from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. CVs submitted to any Vital Energi Utilities Ltd employee by a third-party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Vital Energi Utilities Ltd. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.
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