Head of Health, Safety & Facilties

Eurofins UK Food Testing; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food testing company is seeking a Head of Health, Safety, and Facilities based in Wolverhampton. The role involves developing health and safety strategies, ensuring compliance with UK legislation, and overseeing facilities management across multiple sites. The ideal candidate will possess NEBOSH certification, strong leadership skills, and experience in health and safety management. The position offers competitive benefits including enhanced leave, a pension plan, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Career opportunities worldwide

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading health and safety in a leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of UK health & safety legislation, COSHH and ISO requirements.
• Team management experience with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement health & safety strategies.
• Lead and develop the health, safety, and facilities team.
• Ensure compliance with statutory health and safety requirements.
• Conduct incident investigations and analyses.
• Manage facility maintenance and budgets.

Skills

Health & Safety management

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Education

NEBOSH certification or equivalent

Membership of IOSH

Job description

Job Description

Working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

Please note regular travel to our Eurofins UK sites will be required.

As Head of Health, Safety, and Facilities for Eurofins Food & Water Testing, you will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to ensure compliance with UK health and safety legislation, maintaining safe working environments and overseeing facilities management of our Food & Water Testing sites across the UK.

Main Duties

• Develop, implement, and monitor the company’s health & safety strategy in line with UK legislation and industry specific requirements.
• Review and develop as needed policies and procedures to ensure compliance with statutory requirements and other relevant regulations.
• Lead and develop the health, safety, and facilities team.
• Complete prevention inspections on a regular basis and ensure records maintained.
• Investigate incidents and accidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
• Promote a strong safety culture across all sites, ensuring proactive hazard identification.
• Advise line management in laboratories, logistics, office on health, safety, quality and environmental matters.
• To develop SHEQ communication strategy for all sites and levels of staff.
• Advise on implementation of new or existing SHEQ-related legislation, rules, and Company standards.
• Deliver training and awareness programs to promote a strong safety culture across the company.
• Oversee audits and risk assessments.
• Prepare reports on compliance, audit findings and KPI’s for key stakeholders.
• Develop and manage emergency response plans alongside key stakeholders.
• Monitor risk assessment compliance and reviews (general, manual handling, COSHH, fire prevention) and act as a final authority where a specialist response is required.
• Oversee the facilities management and maintenance of all UK sites.
• Manage contracts for cleaning and building services.
• Ensure compliance with building regulations, fires safety standards and environmental requirements.
• Monitor the sites “permit-to-work” system to ensure compliance with Company standards.
• Manage budgets for the health, safety and facilities activity.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH certification or equivalent qualification in Health & Safety
• Membership of IOSH
• Strong H&S / FM management knowledge
• Proven experience leading and managing Health, Safety and Facilities in a leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of UK health & safety legislation, COSHH and ISO requirements.
• Team management experience.
• Computer literate.
• Must be able to converse on all levels and manage change processes.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to effectively manage key stakeholders.

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from :

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24 / 7 confidential
• Health Cash Plan
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes
• Free parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• We also have in place rewards recognising the great work our employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date

We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer . We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and / or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.