Senior Health, Safety and Food Safety Manager

Irwin & Colton Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Health, Safety, and Food Safety Manager to lead their education division. This role offers a unique opportunity to manage health and safety across various educational institutes, ensuring compliance and excellence in food safety standards. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, utilizing their expertise to implement innovative safety solutions and engage effectively with stakeholders. If you are a self-starter with a passion for safety and a drive to improve performance, this role is perfect for you, offering competitive salary and travel opportunities.

Benefits

Car Allowance

Benefits Package

Qualifications

• Proven experience in health, safety, and food safety management.
• Essential qualifications include Environmental Health Degree and NEBOSH Certificate.

Responsibilities

• Manage health, safety, and food safety implementations and audits.
• Work with site managers to create solutions and action audit priorities.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Food Safety Management

Communication Skills

Auditing Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Environmental Health Degree

NEBOSH General Certificate

Level 3 Food Safety

Job description

Senior Health, Safety, and Food Safety Manager
Midlands, with wider national travel
Circa £65,000 + Car Allowance + Benefits

Irwin and Colton have engaged in an exciting opportunity with Europe's leading contract catering provider, who are looking to bring onboard a new Senior Health, Safety, and Food Safety Manager. This organisation is extremely well known for its success within the UK across an array of different industries, and this role is a great opportunity to take the managerial lead across their education division, where they provide catering (and other soft services) to numerous educational institutes. This will be a varied role in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and will focus on food safety and general health and safety.

Responsibilities of the Senior Health, Safety, and Food Safety Manager will include:

1. Managing the portfolio on the day-to-day implementation of health, safety, and food safety; auditing against this and running training where required
2. Working with client site managers/teams to create pragmatic solutions and ensuring key priorities from audits are actioned
3. Managing the roll out of initiatives to meet customer and client expectations
4. Continually looking for opportunities to improve performance across health and safety and food safety; creating new and innovative ideas based on these
5. Representing the company as best as possible when meeting with senior stakeholders and clients

The successful Health, Safety, and Food Safety Manager will have:

1. Environmental Health Degree / Level 3 Food safety (Essential)
2. NEBOSH General Certificate, with relevant IOSH membership
3. Proven experience in a similar role across health, safety, and food safety
4. Experience operating in extremely fast paced, multi-site environments and prioritising effectively
5. Exceptional communication skills with experience of influencing and engaging effectively across a wide range of stakeholders

This position will require a self-starter who can work both independently and as part of a wider team, to lead by example and hit the ground running.

The position will include travel; a valid driver's license is essential.