Health, Safety and Environmental Manager

Ciwmjobs; West Midlands; Remote; GBP 54.000 - 66.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Private health

Life Assurance

Bonus

Zusammenfassung

Ciwmjobs is recruiting a Health, Safety and Environmental Manager for a West Midlands multi-site food manufacturing operation. The role leads a senior HSE agenda, ensuring compliance with UK safety and environmental regulations across the site and driving a proactive safety culture.

You will manage risk assessments, incident investigations, and cross-functional safety initiatives with Technical and Hygiene teams to protect staff and product integrity.

Qualifikationen

• NEBOSH General Certificate is the minimum requirement.
• Experience in food manufacturing/FMCG environments.
• Strong knowledge of UK health, safety and environmental regulations including OHSAS 18001 / ISO 45001.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder influencing skills.

Aufgaben

• Act as Competent Person for site under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.
• Lead safety improvement plans with stakeholders.
• Develop and audit site-wide risk assessments and Safe Systems of Work to ALARP.
• Own incident investigation processes and share learnings across the group.
• Align HSE protocols with food safety and hygiene controls; manage contractors and chemical usage.
• Represent the site in audits by regulators and major customers; ensure corrective actions are closed out.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

HSE management

Risk assessment

Incident investigation

Audits & compliance

Ausbildung

NEBOSH General Certificate

Diploma level (HSE)

Jobbeschreibung

Health, Safety and Environmental Manager West Midlands

Monday to Friday days £60,000 Bonus Private health Life Assurance *Commutable from Tamworth, Lichfield, Rugeley, Cannock, Burton on Trent and North Birmingham

A well-established multi-site food manufacturer is looking to appoint a Health, Safety and Environmental Manager to join their West Midlands site. This role is an integral part of the leadership team, with a focus on collaborative working to ensure their existing commitment to HSE is not only maintained but pushed to the next level. As the HSE Manager, you will hold ultimate accountability for ensuring the site operates in full compliance with all relevant UK safety and environmental legislation, food industry standards and company policies. You will play a vital role in embedding a proactive culture of safety and sustainability; safeguarding the workforce, protecting product integrity and enabling efficient manufacturing operations.

Key responsibilities

• Site Leadership: Act as the appointed Competent Person for the site under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations. Serve as a key member of the Site Leadership Team to drive site cohesion across all departments.
• Continuous Improvement: Work closely with stakeholders to design, develop and deliver a best-practice safety improvement plan.
• Risk Management: Develop, maintain and audit site-wide risk assessments and Safe Systems of Work, ensuring hazards are identified, mitigated and reduced to ALARP.
• Incident Investigation: Own the end-to-end accident and incident investigation process, diving deep into root-cause analysis and sharing key learnings across the wider group.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Align HSE protocols directly with food safety and hygiene controls. Work closely with the Technical and Hygiene teams to manage contractors, chemical usage and workforce safety without compromising food integrity.
• Audits & Compliance: Represent the site during critical audits from regulatory authorities, accreditation bodies and major retail customers. Ensure all documentation is accurate and corrective actions are closed out promptly.
• Culture & Training: Implement a proactive behavioural safety. Ensure all employees, agency staff and contractors receive thorough, recorded safety training and refresher courses.

Qualifications and experience

• Qualifications: You will hold your NEBOSH general certificate as a minimum and ideally hold or want to works towards Diploma level.
• Experience: Proven HSE management experience gained within a food manufacturing, FMCG, or fast-paced production environment.
• Legislation: Deep working knowledge of UK health, safety and environmental regulations, including OHSAS 18001 / ISO 45001
• Attributes: Exceptional leadership, coaching and influencing skills, with a track record of driving behavioural change and winning buy in across the site.

A member of the Jelly Technical team will endeavour to contact all suitable applicants within 72 working hours.