Job Description
The successful candidate will be based at British Pepper & Spice but will be required to cover all SHS Food Divisional sites. They have a direct responsibility for budgetary control for certain Health, Safety and Environmental requirements. During their daily duties, they should be aware of the requirement to use the resources available to them in a responsible manner. The opportunity to reduce waste, unnecessary expenditure and participate on continuous improvement throughout the site is actively encouraged.
Key Responsibilities/Duties
* Responsible for helping Managers to ensure health, safety and welfare of colleagues in the workplace.
* Help Managers provide training to colleagues on how to perform their job duties safely.
* Work with Managers and colleagues in implementing proper and robust systems to investigate accidents and injuries.
* To carry out and involve Managers and colleagues in root cause analysis and eliminate the possibility of a recurrence of accidents, through creating a safe working environment onward from any findings.
* Ensuring that systems are in place for the business to meet all requirements in terms of legislative and regulative compliance.
* Monitoring how Health and Safety risks and hazards in the workplace are managed, to help and guide management levels to implement controls to meet legislative compliance.
* Train, guide and advise Managers and colleagues on how to minimise and ultimately avoid risks and hazards in the workplace.
* Ensure the business is legally compliant with all health, safety and environmental legislation.
* Where the business is not compliant, implement policies, instructions, and Safe Systems of Work (SSoW) to achieve compliance.
* Work with and help to train all colleagues to manage, monitor and improve the Health and Safety standards in the workplace.
* Where required, advise Directors and Managers on all safety, health and welfare matters.
* Being accountable for monitoring and reporting of the Health and Safety performance for the site.
* Being competent in Health and Safety management.
* Helping the site Managers to be responsible for the safety of colleagues, contractors and the public.
* Promote a positive Health and Safety culture through colleague engagement and communication.
* Champion safety learning and development.
* Developing good internal relationships with functional Heads of Departments to implement safe systems that help drive down cost and increase achievement against standard requirements.
* Help cross functional teams ensure all colleagues working in their functions have the skills, capabilities, and resources to meet safety and environmental requirements for the evolving business needs.
* Ensure that Managers have help to identify the safety and environmental training and developing needs of their teams.
Experience / Qualifications
Experience:
* Previous HSE Management experience, ideally gained within fast-paced manufacturing environments.
* Experience in working with all levels of Stakeholders, with the ability to coach, advise and drive a safety improvement culture.
* NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent is highly desirable.
* Ability to identify HSE risk and provide recommendations and implement solutions to mitigate these.
* A clear understanding of the latest Safety and Compliance Legislation obligations.
* Experience in working within a diverse team.
* Strong audit skills.
* Strong safety related experience in managing projects.
* A strong leader, with the confidence to be autonomous in a fast-paced senior role.
* Experience gained within a FMCG environment, along with working knowledge of the food/retail industry.
* Vast experience of continuous improvement in a Production environment.
* Proven people management skills.
* Previous success in producing results in multifunctional teams.
* Ability to deal effectively with challenging situations.
* Commercially astute.
* Knowledge of Health and Safety requirements in a Production environment.
* Full working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Qualifications:
* The minimum qualification for this role is the NEBOSH National General Certification in Occupational Health and Safety.
* A desired qualification for this role is the NEBOSH (or equivalent) Level 6 National Diploma.
* Environmental Certificate: IEMA Foundation certificate in Environmental Management.
* PUWER Risk assessment training.
* Fire Risk assessment training.
* Legionella Awareness training.
Additional Information
Personal Attributes:
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
* Leadership and experience of motivating teams.
* The ability to prioritise own work and be clearly objective driven.
* Demonstrate a logical approach towards problem solving, identifying issues early with the ability and desire to identify opportunities for improvement and progress.
* Works well under pressure.
* Self-motivated.
* Has the ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment.
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