Following years of accelerated growth Culina Group is now a £2.2billion+ turnover business, employing over 22,000 staff, with a fleet of more than 5,000 vehicles. Culina Group operates from over 100+ depots across the UK and Ireland, serving more than 1,000 clients over its framework of chilled, ambient, contract packaging solutions and fresh and baked goods.
Part of the Culina Group, Great Bear is the flexible, agile ambient 3PL alternative. Great Bear is a key player in ambient 3PL with an extensive depot network and some brand new, state of the art facilities.
Job Description
As Health & Safety Manager you will drive a culture of risk-based decision making, Coaching, Training and enabling the Site Management Team and Regional Health and Safety Leads to balance risk alongside ensuring legal and regulatory compliance through the imparting of expert knowledge and practical application of SHE principles. Ensure practical application is aligned to corporate risk strategy and is consistently applied across the business.
What will you be doing?
* Actively drive the creation of a culture of risk based decision making in order to enable business objectives to be delivered most effectively.
* Align advice/guidance provided to the Site Managers with corporate strategy, ensuring compliance with all aspects of relevant legislation for H&S, BRC, MHRA, Energy and Pollution Control, Major Accident Prevention and Insurance requirements, ensuring solutions are in scope of relevant standards and principles.
* Deliver a compliant Safety Management System for site, developing relevant H&S Risk assessments and control plans, and ensuring the creation and review of SSOWs.
* Utilise data to drive performance improvement and consistent delivery of Policy/Practice across the site and analysing accident/ incident trends to contribute recommendations for continuous improvement.
* Ensure effective employee consultation, including a Safety Committee and a variety of appropriate mediums to disseminate information on safety and environmental matters and to implement programmes that promote a positive safety culture.
* Ensure effective accident/incident investigations, contributing provide specialist knowledge, advice and guidance to Operational Managers where necessary.
* Support the design and delivery of a comprehensive programme of Safety Training, bespoke to the needs of individual job roles working in partnership with Operational Managers.
* Conduct and/or host inspections and audits aligned to the relevant standards, liaising with Management Team on requirements, outputs, monitoring of improvements and evaluating ongoing compliance using relevant regulatory and company policy, as the basis for content/measurement.
* Produce accurate and relevant KPIs to measure performance levels against agreed targets sharing data with Depot/Functional Management teams, Statutory Authorities and Customers as agreed and as appropriate
* Liaise with representatives of relevant official bodies and third party organisations.
* Assist with tender proposal/submission documentation.
* Liaise with representatives of the relevant official bodies and third-party organisations to develop best practice e.g. Fire and building regulations, The Environment Agency etc.
* Produce reports on compliance matters as directed.
* Maintain awareness of Environmental issues, Alternative Energy sources and changes in legislation.
* Ensure site is compliant as a COMAH operator and takes all measure necessary to prevent a major accident.
* Provide specialist support to the contractor control and permit to work program on site.
Qualifications
* Minimum NEBOSHH Certificate or equivalent.
* Educated to A-level standard or equivalent.
* Full driving licence.
* Proven ability to drive/influence culture to promote a safety critical working environment.
* Ability to form relationships, partner with and coach/train/develop/influence senior managers.
* Ability to design and deliver training through the mediums of classroom, individual coaching and/or toolbox talks.
* Experience of working with external auditors, contractors and suppliers to support accreditation processes and maintain assessment standards across multi-site environments.
* Ability to influence, provide support and drive initiative/s within a target driven work environment.
* Experience of managing and/or developing policy/procedure with a thorough and practical knowledge of accident investigation and root cause analysis.
* Proven experience of working within a risk management role in a safety-based culture.
* Detailed knowledge of operational risk management frameworks and methodologies.
* Demonstrable knowledge relative to the collation and publishing of critical KPI data.
* Practical insight and understanding that enables postholder to provide comprehensive commentary on KPI outputs and implement recommendations to aid continuous improvement.
* Comprehensive knowledge of occupational health requirement and safety risk management.
In-depth knowledge of environmental impacts and their control.
Additional Information
As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work. We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.
Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.
Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:
* Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement
* Company Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When we achieve our goals you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
* Private Medical Cover – This gives you peace of mind, you have choice, flexibility and speed of access to the most clinically appropriate care via Bupa
* Pension scheme – we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 5% employee and 8% employer
* Life Assurance - 4 x your annual salary
* Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
* Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
* Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
* Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!
If you meet the requirements for the above role and are looking for your next career opportunity please apply now and become a part of our #WinningTeam