Health, Safety and Environment Manager in Ilfracombe
Posted by Cooper Golding
Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on experience
37.5 hours per week | Permanent
We are delighted to be supporting a leading technology-focused manufacturing organisation in the appointment of an experienced Health, Safety & Environmental Manager.
This is a key leadership position, offering the opportunity to take ownership of the organisation's HSE strategy while playing a central role in developing a proactive, positive and continually improving health, safety and environmental culture.
Reporting to a senior member of the leadership team, you will provide strategic direction alongside hands-on operational leadership, working closely with leaders and employees across the business to ensure high standards of HSE performance, compliance and employee engagement.
The Role
As Health, Safety & Environmental Manager, you will lead the development and implementation of the organisation's HSE strategy, ensuring that statutory obligations and management system requirements are consistently met.
You will be responsible for:
- Leading the development of a positive and proactive Health, Safety & Environmental culture across the organisation.
- Providing expert HSE advice, guidance and support to leaders and colleagues at all levels.
- Maintaining and managing ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 certification and associated management systems.
- Ensuring compliance with relevant UK Health, Safety & Environmental legislation and statutory requirements.
- Developing and maintaining HSE policies, procedures, standards and the legal compliance register.
- Leading continual improvement programmes, establishing appropriate HSE objectives, targets, metrics and KPIs.
- Identifying opportunities to improve HSE performance and implementing effective improvement plans.
- Leading and supporting the Health & Safety Committee, encouraging employee engagement and ownership.
- Managing, developing and supporting members of the HSE team.
- Overseeing risk assessments, safety inspections, emergency preparedness, fire safety and related HSE activities.
- Ensuring accidents and near misses are appropriately recorded, investigated and followed through to completion.
- Managing relevant statutory reporting, including RIDDOR requirements.
- Maintaining appropriate environmental controls, including aspects and impacts assessments.
- Supporting effective management of environmental risks, waste, pollution, noise and other environmental compliance requirements.
- Preparing HSE reports and presenting performance, actions and improvement plans to senior leadership.
- Hosting and supporting external ISO audits and ensuring corrective actions are effectively managed.
- Working collaboratively with wider Group HSE stakeholders to share best practice and ensure alignment with organisational expectations.
We are looking for an experienced HSE professional who is confident operating at both strategic and operational levels and who can influence positive change across a manufacturing environment.
You will ideally have:
- Proven experience in a similar Health, Safety & Environmental management role; manufacturing experience is highly desirable.
- NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent.
- A recognised environmental qualification appropriate to the role.
- Strong knowledge of UK Health, Safety & Environmental legislation and regulatory requirements.
- Strong working knowledge of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001.
- Experience developing and maintaining HSE management systems, policies and procedures.
- Experience with risk assessment, incident investigation, compliance monitoring and continual improvement.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to engage and influence colleagues at all levels.
- Excellent analytical, organisational, report-writing and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong attention to detail and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
- The ability to coach, influence and challenge constructively in order to drive meaningful improvements in HSE performance.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced HSE professional to join a technically focused manufacturing environment and make a genuine impact on safety, environmental performance and organisational culture.
You will have significant scope to shape HSE strategy, influence leadership behaviours, develop the HSE function and deliver measurable continual improvement.
The organisation offers a strong benefits package, including:
- Salary of up to £70,000, dependent on experience
- 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
- Enhanced company sick pay
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- Life assurance
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Service awards
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free EV charging points
- Flexitime on Friday afternoons
Monday-Thursday: 7:30am-4:30pm
Friday: 7:30am-12:00pm, with flexitime applicable
Interested?
If you are an experienced Health, Safety & Environmental professional looking for your next opportunity and are keen to take a lead role in developing HSE culture, compliance and continual improvement within a manufacturing environment, we would be very interested in hearing from you.
This vacancy is being advertised by Cooper Golding who are acting on behalf of their client as a recruitment business.
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