Environmental & Safety Manager

Budweiser Brewing Group (AB InBev); Preston; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Beer allowance

Volunteer days

Generous pension contributions

Private medical care

26 weeks paid parental leave

Job summary

Budweiser Brewing Group (AB InBev) is seeking an EHS Manager to lead the brewery’s Environment, Health & Safety agenda, ensuring AB InBev standards, legal requirements and VPO methodologies are applied. The role champions world-class safety, environmental stewardship, and a culture of ownership across all operations.

The successful candidate will lead governance, risk reduction, investigations, and capability development, while driving continuous improvement and strong leadership accountability

Qualifications

• Degree in EHS, Engineering, Occupational Health, Environmental Science or related field.
• NEBOSH Diploma/NCRQ or equivalent preferred.
• IOSH/IEMA membership desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead EHS strategy and safety culture; embed ownership in operations.
• Oversee risk assessments and SIF prevention with robust controls.
• Drive investigations, root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ensure environmental compliance and energy/waste improvements.
• Maintain ISO 14001/45001 compliance; manage audits and permits.
• Own VPO Safety Pillar; lead governance and capability development.
• Lead occupational health programs and promote wellbeing across teams.
• Develop EHS capability via training, onboarding and risk assessment.
• Track performance against safety, environmental and management KPIs.

Skills

EHS leadership

Safety culture

Data-driven

Risk & incident management

Process safety

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Strategic thinking

Influence & courage

Sustainability & governance

Education

Degree in EHS/Engineering

NEBOSH Diploma/NCRQ

IOSH/IEMA membership

Job description

Purpose

Brewing the world’s most loved beers and building brands consumers love, AB InBev is where ownership, ambition, and action thrive. Our portfolio of iconic brands includes global classics like Stella Artois, Budweiser, and Corona, and well-known favorites such as Camden Hells, Beck’s, and Leffe. We empower you to dream big, lead change, and create a long-lasting legacy. We value relentless problem-solvers who take accountability, embrace challenges, and turn bold goals into results through resilience and hard work.

Seniority Level: Associate

#Ownership

Purpose

Brewing the world’s most loved beers and building brands consumers love, AB InBev is where ownership, ambition, and action thrive. Our portfolio of iconic brands includes global classics like Stella Artois, Budweiser, and Corona, and well-known favorites such as Camden Hells, Beck’s, and Leffe. We empower you to dream big, lead change, and create a long-lasting legacy. We value relentless problem-solvers who take accountability, embrace challenges, and turn bold goals into results through resilience and hard work.

That’s Who We Are:

Come and OWN IT.

The role:

The EHS Manager is responsible for leading the brewery’s Environment, Health & Safety agenda, ensuring compliance with AB InBev standards, legal requirements, and VPO methodologies while driving a proactive, ownership-based safety culture.

The role will champion AB InBev’s ambition to achieve world-class safety performance, eliminate Serious Injuries & Fatalities (SIFs), reduce environmental impacts, and embed safety as a core value across all brewery operations. The EHS Manager serves as a key member of the brewery leadership team and acts as the technical authority on EHS matters. AB InBev’s safety approach emphasizes risk reduction, continuous improvement, employee ownership, psychological safety, and strong leadership accountability.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Safety Leadership & Culture: Lead AB InBev’s Health & Safety strategy, embed the SAFE Together culture, develop safety-focused leaders, and integrate safety ownership into operational decisions and performance reviews.
• Risk Management: Lead SIF prevention and risk assessments, ensuring robust controls for high-risk activities including confined spaces, working at height, electrical safety, LOTO, process safety, mobile equipment, machinery, chemicals, and contractors.
• Incident Management: Lead investigations, root-cause analysis, corrective/preventive actions, trend analysis, and sharing of lessons learned across the brewery and wider zone.
• Environmental Management: Ensure environmental compliance while driving improvements in water, waste, packaging circularity, energy efficiency, carbon reduction, wastewater, decarbonization, and renewable energy.
• Compliance & Governance: Maintain compliance with AB InBev standards, EHS legislation, ISO 14001/45001, audits, permits, licenses, and statutory requirements; provide timely leadership reporting.
• VPO & Continuous Improvement: Own the VPO Safety Pillar, lead governance and capability development, apply data-driven leading indicators, and drive best-practice implementation and risk elimination.
• Occupational Health & Wellbeing: Lead occupational health and industrial hygiene programs covering noise, dust, chemical and ergonomic risks, while promoting wellbeing, psychological safety, health surveillance, and fitness-for-work.
• Capability Development: Build EHS capability through training, coaching, onboarding, hazard recognition, and risk-assessment development for employees, leaders, and contractors.
• Performance & KPIs: Drive performance against key safety, environmental, and management-system KPIs, including fatalities/SIFs, LTIFR, TRIR, near misses, corrective actions, water/energy/carbon, waste, compliance, audits, VPO maturity, and training.

Who we’re looking for:

• Education: Degree in EHS, Engineering, Occupational Health, Environmental Science, or a related discipline; NEBOSH Diploma/NCRQ or equivalent preferred, with IOSH/IEMA or equivalent membership desirable.
• EHS Leadership Experience: 5–10+ years of EHS leadership experience within FMCG, beverage, food, brewing, manufacturing, or similar environments.
• Management Systems: Proven experience managing ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems and regulatory compliance.
• Safety Culture: Demonstrated success in transforming safety culture and embedding strong safety ownership across an organization.
• Risk & Incident Management: Strong experience leading incident investigations, risk management programs, and high-risk manufacturing activities, with knowledge of process safety principles.
• People Leadership: Strong ability to develop, coach, and inspire teams while building EHS capability across all organizational levels.
• Strategic & Data-Driven: Strategic thinker who uses data, leading indicators, and continuous improvement to drive measurable EHS performance.
• Influence & Courage: Confident in challenging unsafe behaviors and having courageous conversations at all levels, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Stakeholder & Results Focus: Strong stakeholder management skills with a clear ownership mentality, results orientation, and ability to translate strategy into action.

Benefits & Perks:

• Benefits for you and your family to help your physical and mental health
• Competitive parental leave and pension double contributions
• 25 days holidays per year
• Employee benefits to help your physical and mental health and overall well-being (travel insurance, gym memberships, discounted services, dental, etc.)
• A beer allowance to enjoy our brands
• 2 volunteer days a year to support your local community
• Global Bonus
• WPA Private Medical Care
• 26 weeks paid leave for primary caregiver

Why build your career with us

We recruit for mindset, ambition, cultural fit, and growth opportunities.

UNIQUE CULTURE

We are proud to be part of something bigger than ourselves and are passionate about building upon our company’s long legacy. We believe in collaboration and candor, which results in a dynamic culture with open communication.

BRANDS EVERYONE LOVES

We are part of the collective, global history of beer. We are the proud makers of more than 500 iconic brands, from beloved international classics to local favorites.

GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES

Our people grow at the pace of their talent. We empower our people to learn, expand their perspectives, and unlock career growth. In an environment where commitment to excellence pays off, our people are able to deepen their impact and create a long-lasting legacy.