Health, Safety and Environment Manager

HSE Recruitment; Shepton Mallet; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home 1 day per week

Job summary

The Health, Safety and Environmental Manager role sits within a growing food and drink manufacturer in Shepton Mallet. Reporting to senior leadership, you will shape HSE strategy for this site and support daily operations.

You will manage one direct report, coaching and developing the HSE Coordinator while engaging staff to strengthen safety culture and drive improvements across the site.

Qualifications

• Senior, hands-on health, safety and environmental leadership in manufacturing.
• Strong influencing ability and proactive safety culture development.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and develop team members and staff across functions.

Responsibilities

• Drive safety across a single, complex site and support daily operations.
• Manage one direct report (HSE Coordinator) through coaching and development.
• Advise senior leaders, strengthen ownership of operational risks and address compliance issues.
• Lead ESG agenda, environmental reporting, carbon accounting and wider ESG strategy.
• Establish HSE training and competence framework and report performance to senior leaders.

Skills

Safety leadership

Influencing

Coaching

Stakeholder engagement

Data interpretation

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

NEBOSH General Certificate

Job description

This permanent position as Health, Safety and Environment Manager sits with a growing food and drink manufacturer in Shepton Mallet. Reporting into senior leadership, the post-holder shapes HSE strategy across a single, complex production site while supporting daily operations.

Duties include managing one direct report, a coordinator, through coaching and development, and engaging staff to build a stronger safety culture.

The role offers £55,000 to £70,000 annually plus a package, with one day weekly worked from home.

Applicants should bring senior, hands‑on expertise within manufacturing, strong influencing ability, and a proactive approach to driving improvement.

Role

• Health, Safety and Environmental Manager

Company

• Established but growing food and beverage manufacturing company

Salary

• £55,000–£70,000 per year + package

Location

• Shepton Mallet, Somerset, can work from home for 1 day per week.

Overview of the position

• Seeking a credible and proactive Health, Safety and Environmental Manager to drive safety across this single but complex site. Supporting day to day operations and developing group strategy for this site
• To manage 1 direct report, a HSE Coordinator offering coaching and development.
• This is a senior role for the company and will be a key member of the senior leadership team. To advise and challenge leaders, strengthen management ownership of operational risks and ensure that significant compliance issues are identified and addressed.
• Ensure compliance but also drive cultural change and encourage positive and proactive behaviours on site. Allowing the workforce to take accountability for safety.
• Manage the ESG agenda, development of environmental reporting, carbon accounting and the wider ESG strategy. With the future plan to roll out ISO 14001.
• Maintain oversight of environmental permits, regulatory submissions, waste duty of care, emissions, effluent, drainage, water, chemicals and pollution prevention.
• Lead audits, inspections, risk reviews, incident investigations and corrective-action follow-up.
• Set standards for risk assessments, safe systems of work and operational procedures across areas including COSHH, DSEAR, machinery safety, workplace transport, contractors, permits and occupational health.
• Provide HSE assurance for new plant, processes, chemicals, buildings and layouts, including management of change and relevant CDM duties.
• Own fire-safety governance, emergency preparedness, drills, maintenance evidence and contractor coordination.
• Coordinate auditable energy, fuel, water, waste and emissions data, supporting carbon-footprint development, EcoVadis, M2030, customer questionnaires and ESG reporting.
• Establish the HSE training and competence framework, promote employee participation and report performance, trends and material risks to senior leaders.

Essential background and qualifications

• Manufacturing background, ideally food, drink, beverage, dairy, baked goods, distillery, brewery, paper, packaging, textiles, tobacco
• NEBOSH General Certificate or ideally Diploma or equivalent
• Experience of ISO 14001 or ISO 45001, environmental permits, ESOS, carbon accounting, EcoVadis, SMETA or M2030 (very desirable)

Who are we looking for

• Confident and credible safety professional who is proactive and resilient
• Ability to interpret data and deliver this locally but more importantly someone who is communicative, collaborative and passionate.
• Able to coach and mentor others, in a positive and supportive way
• Able to influence, gain buy -in and collaborative across departments able to bridge the gap between safety and operations.