Health & Safety Environmental Manager

Stonehouse, Gloucester

£50,000 + Training + Progression + On site Parking + Company Pension + Holiday + Benefits + Overtime

LINKS Recruitment Group present a fantastic opportunity for a HSE Manager to work within a well-established and growing company who are continuously growing due to company success in Food Manufacturing and Food Safety, with a good understanding of the FMCG in the food sector.

The EHS Manager will lead efforts that drive towards a safe working environment for all partners, customers, visitors and outside contractors in the assigned location(s). The EHS Manager will be responsible for the implementation of successful environmental and safety programs accomplished through coordination of HSE, and local regulations and by building a “safety comes first” attitude. The EHS Manager will have responsibility to work with plant leadership in leading the safety and environmental programs and will be responsible for overseeing all Safety and Environmental training in the plant.

The role:

• Compliance - Lead efforts to improve safety and environmental compliance for applicable programs. lead direct reports, leaders and partners that support the programs.
• Written Programs - Lead EHS team in development, maintenance and improvement of applicable Environmental, Health and Safety written programs.
• Responsible for tracking and meeting deadlines for all Safety and Environmental Programs
• Work with hourly support staff to ensure that appropriate learning techniques are applied and appropriate checklists and other applicable learning tools (e.g. Skills Matrix,VWI’s, e-learning, classroom via vendors) are developed, updated, and utilized.
• Measure the implementation and success of safety and environmental training techniques and methods. 
• Training - Oversee and administer Safety and Environmental training in the plant. This training will involve assuring the proper training of hourly and salary partners and overseeing the processes to properly document the training.
• Inspections - Know and understand the Safety and Environmental SOPs. Lead as required (and as defined in the environmental and safety inspection SOPs) during regulatory agency inspections by external safety and/or environmental agencies or customers.
• Incident Inspections - Work collaboratively with partners and leaders to identify root cause of incidents such as spills, safety incidents, recordables and other EHS issues
• Stay current and attend required Safety and Environmental training to maintain required certifications.
• Behavior Based Safety - Conduct partner safety observations (PSO) training for the leaders in the plant. Validate both quantity and quality of observations continuously improves.
• Accountable for plant safety budget
• Worker’s Comp - Work with HO Safety and plant HR to successfully drive plant worker's comp cases to resolution.
• Projects - Participate in initiatives or projects outside of plant(s) responsibility on an as needed basis.

The Person:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or License / Certification in Occupational Safety, Health, or Environmental fields if accompanied by relevant experience and demonstrated performance.
• Experience in Occupational Safety, Health, Environmental Safety in Manufacturing Environment.
• Experience in creation of safety programs; training programs, conduct plant audits to identify regulatory improvement opportunities, ways to reduce potential injuries, and convey to plant leadership, generate reports of audit findings.
• Strong organization and planning
• Knowledge of Safety and Environmental permitting, regulations and requirements for industrial applications is desired.

Role: Permanent

Salary: £50,000