Environmental Health Officer jobs in United Kingdom

Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will be responsible for driving forward the Health and Safety agenda across several sites, ensuring that appropriate management systems are defined and implemented, whilst guiding employees towards a positive safety culture and ensuring the company complies with all HSE legal obligations.

This is a great opportunity to join the largest privately owned Pet Products manufacturer in the UK. You will have the autonomy to develop this role, working with a wide range of technical operatives and management to drive standards and initiatives throughout the company.

The role is site based and will require travel between our sites in Yatton and Cardiff, and travel to Blackburn once every two or three weeks.

Day-to-day duties will include but not limited to:

• Implement and improve on existing processes
• Lead on obtaining and retaining relevant accreditations
• Use process mapping to ensure optimum efficiency
• Setting up and maintaining HSE reporting procedures
• Ensure HSE regulations are being met across all sites in a consistent and aligned approach
• Propose sustainability initiatives, such as reducing carbon emissions, minimising waste and implementing eco-friendly practices
• Advise and help action ideas for continuous improvement across health & safety
• Engaging with employees to implement safer ways of working
• Working with employees to implement effective visual management
• Coaching and mentoring employees to expected standards
• Develop and define the company’s HSE programmes
• Providing leadership and guidance on all HSE matters
• Fostering a Safety culture and bring people on board with a “safety first” approach
• Delivering H&S inductions to the new starters
• Write and deliver on site training programmes for job related H&S matters
• Responsible for Incident management: register of incidents, RIDDOR, root cause analysis, investigations, corrective and preventative actions, metrics and implement improvement plans
• Develop and maintain a system of H&S inspections and audits
• Chair regular HSE review meetings with the Management Team
• Develop Risk Assessments, COSHH Assessments and Safe Working Practices
• Managing First Aid and Emergency Evacuation teams
• Liaising with Departmental Managers and Supervisors to ensure that sufficient H&S systems and controls are present
• Lead H&S improvement teams as needed, specifically within Work at Height, Confined Spaces and liaise with contractors to review and agree methods of working
• Communicate H&S information to the workforce using dashboards, newsletters, bulletins
• Carrying out regular site tours to provide visible Safety leadership within the company
• Represent the company in all HSE matters
• Implement and lead Lean 6 Sigma initiative across the group

We are looking for a driven and experienced Health, Safety & Environment Manager who has engineering and/or manufacturing expertise with a NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety. Involvement in the implementation of 6 Sigma would be an advantage, together with Green or Black Belt status. Experience of working at height, within confined spaces with gas safety and/or lifting operations would be beneficial. A strong degree of competence in Microsoft applications, particularly Excel.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to prepare operation manuals and have strong decision making and planning skills.