The Company
Nigel Wright are working with a leading food manufacturing business to recruit a Health and Safety Manager. The Health & Safety of their employees is their number one priority. With a vision to provide a safe working environment, by promoting a positive culture and continuously improving the health & safety of their colleagues, whilst also ensuring they fulfil their obligations to protect the environment.
The Opportunity
Working alongside the Plant Manager, as part of the site leadership team, the role of the Health & Safety Manager is to promote and strengthen the existing health and safety culture. We are looking for someone who has a passion, combined with HSE knowledge and ability that will enable them to lead the health, safety, and environment agenda. You'll make a difference at site and contribute to the national HSE strategy. With an engaging approach and industrial experience, you will be responsible for ensuring site progress in line with the national safety agenda, this will be measured by a combination of KPI's, internal/external audits and project completion. Continuous improvement is practiced across the business, and you'll be expected to identify improvement opportunities not only in HSE but also cross functionally. Crucially, you will be a real team player who can build and maintain strong relationships, at all levels, to drive the safety and environment agenda forward. Your technical expertise will support you as the site health, safety and environmental lead for site specific projects/installations where you will provide advice and guidance.
Requirements
We are looking for someone who has NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent and ideally an IEMA Certificate in Environmental Management or Foundation level - however experience of working on a permitted site or knowledge of environmental systems would also be taken into consideration. You will also have demonstrable knowledge working within an FMCG environment