Health & Safety Officer / Manager in Howden

Role: Health & Safety Officer / Manager

📍 Location: East Yorkshire – Goole / Howden / Selby
🏭 Industry: Manufacturing / FMCG / Food

💵 Salary: Up to £40k - £45k p/a per annum, depending on experience

🤝Benefits: 28 days holiday incl. bank holidays, standard contributory pension, death in service

📅 Working hours: 40 hr week Mon – Fri 8am – 4pm (flexible to meet business demands)
📋 Reporting to: Operations Director

The client

Our client is a leading UK food manufacturing organisation, who supply to major UK retailers. Still family owned, they have a rich history having operated for over 60 years. With state of the art manufacturing facilities including in Yorkshire, they are looking to expand their operations in the near future as well.

The role

They are looking for a proactive Health & Safety Officer / Manager to ensure everyone in the company complies with health and safety legislation. You will also be responsible for establishing policies that will create and maintain a safe workplace.

As a Health & Safety Officer / Manager you must have excellent attention to detail to identify hazards. You will also be able to discover opportunities for improving conditions and execute various safety programs. The ability to communicate guidelines to a multidisciplinary workforce is essential.

Stand-alone delivery of a pro-active and professional H&S Service to the business through effective implementation of policies and procedures. To provide business aligned H&S objectives that support the achievement of the company objectives and drive a safe working culture.

Key day to day responsibilities:

• Partner with senior and line managers to embed H&S best practice through coaching, policy guidance, and SOP/risk assessment development.
• Design and implement site-wide H&S plans, policies, and procedures in line with legal requirements; lead monthly H&S Committee meetings.
• Conduct regular workplace, equipment, and statutory inspections (lifting equipment, FLT, fire extinguishers, ladders, racking) and drive corrective action plans.
• Lead incident/accident investigations, root-cause analysis, and prevention initiatives; maintain the incident reporting system and action plans.
• Deliver H&S inductions, toolbox talks, and training for employees, visitors, and contractors; update SOPs and SDS/COSHH documentation
• Monitor compliance through audits (with HR/Technical teams), KPI tracking, and emergency procedure development; maintain Fire Log Book records.

Person Specification:

• Previous Health & Safety experience in manufacturing – ideally FMCG or food process
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001, and 45001
• Experience with risk assessments, incident investigations, and reporting
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel, Word, and SharePoint
• Good communication and influencing skills
• Hands-on, proactive, and confident working in a busy operational setting

Qualifications:

• IOSH Managing Safely
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• Internal Auditor training
• Experience with COSHH, HACCP, food hygiene (GMP/GHP) etc

📩 Interested?

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