Health & Safety Manager

Valeo Foods; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo Foods is seeking an Environmental Health and Safety Manager to drive the safety strategy and ensure compliance across its operations. This role involves creating and maintaining safety systems, leading strategic planning, and managing risk with a focus on health and wellbeing improvements. This position offers competitive benefits including a matched pension scheme and additional employee perks.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme up to 10%

Death in service

Cycle to work scheme

Canteen

Retailer discount platform

Staff discount

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in the FMCG sector or similar.
• Proven experience in strategic planning and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Create and embed VSF Safety Management System.
• Develop safety strategy covering culture and leadership.
• Lead health, wellbeing, and environmental improvement projects.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Risk Management

Strategic Planning

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

Job description

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• Create and embed a meaningful VSF Safety Management System.
• Review, amend and maintain a system for the identification of risks and the effective application of control measures.
• Create and embed policies for key areas of safety including:
• Contractor Management
• Personal Protective Equipment
• The Provision and Use of Work Equipment
• Security of People, the Brands and the property.
• Develop and maintain a systematic audit schedule of our people, plant and processes, to ensure compliance with all statutory legislation; Include audits for the above policies.
• Ensure the Company is always compliant and that best practice procedures are in place and adhered to;
• Escalate to the executive team any serious breach of the EHS policies and procedures.
• Deliver the safety strategy for VSF in a range of areas, including culture, leadership and enabling systems that cover our employees, contractors and visitors
• The safety strategy should include clear measures of success, how the safety culture will look and the role of the leadership in the journey
• The safety strategy is clearly defined and communicated to the business in the form of a road map. If appropriate might be split into individual site strategies in collaboration with the site leadership teams.

Measures and Reporting

• All EHS KPI’s are tracked, measured, and reported as per KFL procedures, and relevant KPI’s are reported monthly to our owners
• The business complies it statutory obligations relating to RIDDOR 2013.

Additional Responsibilities and duties

• Lead projects on health, wellbeing and environmental improvements
• Weekly and Monthly review of EHS performance (including budget) with the Senior Leadership
• Involvement and leading of continuous improvement projects or focus groups
• Supporting external audits
• Supporting and conducting internal audits

Job Description

Safety Management System

• Create and embed a meaningful VSF Safety Management System.
• Review, amend and maintain a system for the identification of risks and the effective application of control measures.
• Create and embed policies for key areas of safety including:

• Contractor Management
• Display Screens
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Manual Handling
• The Provision and Use of Work Equipment
• Security of People, the Brands and the property.

• Develop and maintain a systematic audit schedule of our people, plant and processes, to ensure compliance with all statutory legislation; Include audits for the above policies.
• Ensure the Company is always compliant and that best practice procedures are in place and adhered to;
• Escalate to the executive team any serious breach of the EHS policies and procedures.

Strategy

• Deliver the safety strategy for VSF in a range of areas, including culture, leadership and enabling systems that cover our employees, contractors and visitors
• The safety strategy should include clear measures of success, how the safety culture will look and the role of the leadership in the journey
• The safety strategy is clearly defined and communicated to the business in the form of a road map. If appropriate might be split into individual site strategies in collaboration with the site leadership teams.

Measures and Reporting

• All EHS KPI’s are tracked, measured, and reported as per KFL procedures, and relevant KPI’s are reported monthly to our owners
• The business complies it statutory obligations relating to RIDDOR 2013.

Additional Responsibilities and duties

• Lead projects on health, wellbeing and environmental improvements
• Weekly and Monthly review of EHS performance (including budget) with the Senior Leadership
• Involvement and leading of continuous improvement projects or focus groups
• Supporting external audits
• Supporting and conducting internal audits

Qualifications

• Hold the NEBOSH Certificateas a minimum qualification
• Extensive experience in the FMCG sector or similar
• Proven experience instrategic planning and risk management

Additional Information

What we offer you in return

• Matched pension scheme up to 10%
• Death in service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Canteen
• Retailer discount platform
• Staff discount