HSER Manager

DS Smith; Livingston; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Health and Safety Manager to lead safety initiatives at their Livingston and Lockerbie sites. In this pivotal role, you will champion a culture of safety, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations. Your strategic vision will guide the development of annual HSE plans while fostering relationships across all levels of the organization. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions, where your expertise will contribute to a safer and more productive workplace. Join a team dedicated to innovation and sustainability, and help redefine packaging for a changing world.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Income Protection

25 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays

Employee Discounts Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

EAP Support

Long Service Award

Qualifications

• Experience in managing health, safety, and environmental functions.
• Ability to coach and advise employees on safety culture.

Responsibilities

• Drive safety improvement culture and engage all employees.
• Manage internal and external audit schedules for HSER systems.

Skills

Safety Improvement Culture

Stakeholder Engagement

Technical HSER Training

Risk Assessments (PUWER, COSHH)

HSE Management Systems

Education

Degree in Health and Safety or related field

Tools

ISO 14001

ISO 45001

ISO 50001

Job description

HSER Manager

Livingston & Lockerbie

(Onsite)

At DS Smith we prioritise safety with the aim to maintain a zero-accident culture. As Health and Safety Manager of our Livingston and Lockerbie sites you will play a critical role in ensuring that all operations are conducted safely and responsibly. Your leadership will ensure that we create a site culture that protects our employees, whilst safeguarding the environment. Utilising your expertise and dedication – you will ensure that health and safety and environmental issues are at the forefront of our operations.

As part of your role you will manage and develop the Health, Safety and Environmental function of the site. You will ensure the right skills, processes, materials, information and procedures are in place to meet legislative requirements, customers’ requirements, and the standards established by formal management systems (e.g. ISO 14001/ISO 50001/ISO 45001).

You will have experience of working with all levels of stakeholders, with the ability to coach, advise and drive a safety improvement culture. You will have a strategic outlook, working closely with the site leadership to develop annual HSE Plans with monthly objectives and targets. As the successful candidate you will be the management representative for HSER management systems as well as the point of contact for external stakeholders such as regulators and insurers.

This role will require you to operate 4 days from our Livingston site and 1 day from our Lockerbie site.

What we would like our candidate to have:

1. Drive a safety improvement culture, ensuring that all employees are engaged and participative in this process.
2. Build relationships at all levels of the organisation and coach and advise all employees on the behaviours and actions necessary for a strong safety culture within the organisation.
3. Support the site leadership team in developing the annual HSE Plan and ensuring that objectives and targets are monitored monthly.
4. Deliver technical HSER training, informing all levels of the organisation of their HSER roles and responsibilities, and developing the competency of the organisation to deliver.
5. Support and coach all levels of the organisation in delivering the HSER objectives and targets.
6. Monitor and report HSER key performance indicators.
7. Act as the Management Representative for the HSER management systems providing the site leadership team with an overview of the health of the system and key actions needed for improvement and compliance.
8. Manage the internal and external audit schedule for the sites management systems, involving competent members of the organisation in the process.
9. Lead the completion and maintenance of technical risk assessments such as PUWER and COSHH.
10. Act as the point of contact for HSER communications with external organisations such as regulators and insurers.
11. The ability to travel to other sites when needed.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• 25 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays
• Employee Discounts Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP Support
• Long Service Award

We are DS Smith, together with International Paper, we are a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based products. We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. We employ more than 65,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation, manufacturing, design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more. Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time. Become part of a world-leading organisation and do your best work with us!

“To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.”