EHS Manager — Safety, Compliance & Risk Leader

Givaudan; Ashford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great compensation package including

Private Medical Healthcare

Group Pension Plan

Learning opportunities

Career development plan

Site Events

Job summary

Givaudan is seeking an experienced Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) leader at our Ashford site to drive risk reduction and culture change in line with EHS policies. You will coach line managers and manage site EHS programs across training, audits, and regulatory reporting.

In this role you will develop and deploy an EHS vision aligned with global strategy, ensure regulatory compliance, and partner with Regulatory, IT and regional teams to enable safe, compliant operations across the site.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years’ experience in the industry and prior experience in a EHS plant.
• Appropriate country EHS qualification/certifications

Responsibilities

• Support and guidance to site management on all EHS aspects; coach line managers to ensure EHS becomes a line responsibility
• Develop and deploy EHS vision aligned with company strategy for the site, considering OPS/EHS Global Strategy and local legislation
• Manage compliance with all EHS Regulations
• Responsible for all Site EHS trainings for new and existing employees and contractors
• Deploy behaviour based safety programmes
• Ensure safety and Health programmes are strictly implemented
• Ensure emergency planning is effective
• Responsible for accurately completing and submitting regulatory reports
• Ensure KPI reporting is complete and drive actions towards targets
• Track site safety behavioural audits and incidents, analyse trends and report to management
• Lead the employee safety committee to promote safety awareness and drive issue closure
• Manage all hazardous and non-hazardous waste activities
• Manage all documentation
• Maintain relationships with authorities/communities/network
• Act as primary contact for Federal, State, and local EHS regulatory agencies
• Act as main contact with Regulatory, IT, regional Management Team

Skills

Fluent English

Hazard Identification

Risk Assessment

Risk Control

Root Cause Analysis

Process Safety Management

Audit

H+S Management

Emergency Management

Computer literacy

Education

EHS qualification/certifications

Job description

Givaudan is seeking an experienced Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) leader at our Ashford site to drive risk reduction and culture change in line with EHS policies. You will coach line managers and manage site EHS programs across training, audits, and regulatory reporting.

In this role you will develop and deploy an EHS vision aligned with global strategy, ensure regulatory compliance, and partner with Regulatory, IT and regional teams to enable safe, compliant operations across the site.