SHEQ Manager

Culina Group Limited; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Company bonus

Private medical cover

Pension 5% employee / 8% employer

Life Assurance

Wellbeing programme

Eye care vouchers

Rewards program

Employee discounts

Job summary

Great Bear, part of the Culina Group, seeks a proactive SHEQ Manager to lead safety across multiple ambient distribution sites in the North Midlands and South Yorkshire. The role supports risk-based decision making, regulatory compliance, and development of safety training with site management teams.

Occasional nights away may be required. You will drive improvements, coordinate with external bodies, and ensure ISO-aligned practices across the business, fostering a proactive, safety-first

Qualifications

• Must have NEBOSH General Certificate; Diploma or working towards related courses is desirable.
• IOSH membership or similar professional recognition is advantageous.
• Willingness to travel to multiple sites within the North Midlands and South Yorkshire.

Responsibilities

• Drive a risk-based safety culture across multi-site distribution centres.
• Ensure compliance with H&S, BRC, Environmental Energy and other regulations; align with ISO standards.
• Lead safety training and mentoring for site teams; support audits and incident investigations.

Skills

Influence culture

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Diploma or working towards NEBOSH Fire/IEMA/Manual Handling/SEMA Racking inspector/COMAH/DGSA

IOSH membership

Job description

Company Description

Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.

Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.

At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive... A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!

Job Description

As a SHEQ Manager, with a multi-site role, you will be required to visit and support number of Ambient division distribution centres within the North Midlands and South Yorkshire area. Base location is flexible across these regions.

You will support driving a culture of risk based decision making, coaching, training site management teams and ensuring legal and regulatory compliance through the imparting of expert knowledge and practical application of SHEQ principles. Ensure practical application and guidance is aligned to business risk strategy and is consistently applied across your sites and the wider business.

Occasional nights away may be required.

Key responsibilities of an SHEQ Manager:

• Actively drive the creation of a culture of risk based decision making in order to enable business objectives to be delivered most effectively.
• Align advice/guidance provided to Managers/SHEQ Leads with corporate strategy, ensuring compliance with all aspects of relevant legislation for H&S, BRC, Environmental Energy, risk Prevention, Insurance requirements and ensuring solutions are in scope of ISO standards and principles.
• Contribute to the development of H&S Strategy, Risk Plans and utilise KPI data to drive performance improvement and consistent delivery of Policy/Practice across the business.
• Deliver the Company's Safety Management Systems, conducting reviews on SSOW and analyse incident trends contributing recommendations to the quest for continuous improvement.
• Communicate effectively and through a variety of mediums to disseminate information on safety matters. You'll be working in conjunction with local safety committees and attending monthly meetings to implement programmes that promote, learning, Improvements and a positive safety culture.
• Contribute and provide input through the impairing of specialist knowledge, advice and guidance to incident investigations and coach Operational Managers on incident reporting where necessary.
• Support the design and delivery of a comprehensive programme of Safety Training, bespoke to the needs of individual job roles working in partnership with Operational Managers.
• Conduct regular internal site audits aligned to ISO standards and support with external audits cross the business liaising with GMs and Head of Functions on outputs, monitoring of Improvements and evaluating ongoing compliance using HSE guidelines, BRC requirements and company policy as the basis for content/measurement.
• Liaise with representatives of the relevant official bodies and third-party organisations to develop best practice e.g. Local authorities, HSE, Fire service etc.
• Create and communicate informative safety learnings in the forms of lessons learnt, safety flashes, briefs, tool box talks.
• Reporting of events under RIDDOR, communication to our insurers, supporting and managing subsequent requests for information.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent. Diploma or working towards.
• NEBOSH Fire, IEMA, Manual Handling, SEMA Racking inspector, Knowledge of COMAH, DGSA are desirable
• Technical membership of IOSH or above
• A full UK driving licence
• Proven ability to drive/influence culture to promote a safety critical working environment
• Ability to design and delivery Training through the mediums of Classroom, Individual Coaching and/or Toolbox Talks
• Experience of working with external auditors, contractors and suppliers to support accreditation processes and maintain assessment standards across multi-site environments
• Experience of Managing and/or Developing Policy/Procedure with a thorough and practical knowledge of accident investigation and root cause analysis
• Thorough understanding of Health, safety, environmental legislation, PUWER, LOLER, COSHH essential
• Experience in FMCG and or workplace transport environments

Additional Information

As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work. We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.

Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement of 25 days plus the normal bank holidays.
• Company Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When we achieve our goals you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
• Private Medical Cover – This gives you peace of mind, you have choice, flexibility and speed of access to the most clinically appropriate care via Bupa
• Pension scheme – we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 5% employee and 8% employer
• Life Assurance - x4 your annual salary
• Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
• Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
• Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
• Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!