Environment, Health and Safety Manager

HSE Recruitment Network; Newark on Trent; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

HSE Recruitment Network partners with a Newark-based manufacturing site to recruit a Safety, Health & Environmental Manager who will lead the site’s safety culture and performance. You will report to the Plant Manager and sit on the senior management team, guiding safety strategy and initiatives across the operation.

You will own all Safety, Health and Wellbeing activities, drive continuous improvement, champion best practices, and influence management to sustain high standards and compliance

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Certificate level or higher is required.
• Background in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Ability to uphold and advance safety standards and drive culture change.
• Strong people skills to educate and influence on safety behaviours.
• Experience leading safety, health and wellbeing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead Safety, Health and Wellbeing activities on site.
• Influence Operational Management to maintain high safety standards.
• Promote continuous improvement and safe working practices.
• Deliver IMS to improve compliance.
• Support senior management with safety strategy and culture.

Skills

HSE management

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

People skills

Education

NEBOSH Certificate level

Job description

HSE Recruitment are working with an established manufacturing company in Newark who are looking for a new Safety, Health & Environmental Manager to lead the safety culture and performance across the site.

This is one of the best performing sites, with a very engaged management team and a headcount of circa 100. If you want to join a business where safety is driven from the top and the culture is one of improvement, not just in safety, but across all departments, then this could be for you.

Your role is to support the site in moving from a dependant to an interdependent safety culture. Reporting into the Plant Manager and sitting on the senior management team, you will provide the direction, support and clarity in relation to health and safety. You will have a dotted line into a Head of HSE and work alongside a wider company EHS team.

You will take ownership for all Safety, Health and Wellbeing activities on site. You will guide and influence Operational Management to maintain high standards, champion innovation, drive continuous improvement and solutions to issues, promote positive culture and safe working practices and deliver the IMS to improve compliance.

What we are looking for-

• A strong HSE Manager or Senior HSE Advisor who is going to bring the technical skills and knowledge as well as the softer skills.
• NEBOSH Certificate level qualified as a minimum.
• Background across any manufacturing or engineering, factory focused environment will be considered.
• Need individual to be comfortable to uphold existing standards and move forward on behaviours and culture.
• People focused, able to engage, who can educate people on the why, who can tell a story and change habits.
• Someone who will hold people to count, challenge when needed and who will lead the step change, changing the mindset of ownership.

Please note the working hours are 7.30am-4pm Monday-Friday