Health and Safety Manager
Posted 07/08/2024 by LER (SG) Ltd
Health and Safety Manager
Location: Oldbury, Walsall, West Brom area of Birmingham
Salary: Circa £50k - £60k
A local, family owned manufacturing company are now looking for a Health and Safety Manager to join their team.
The company specialises in manufacturing chemicals for various industries including, Pharmaceutical, Agri, Rubber, Polymer, Food & Beverage. The site is classed as lower-tier COMAH and has 200 employees.
Health and Safety Manager – Role & Responsibilities:
- Review, maintain and update the companies HSE Policies and Procedures
- Manage a small HSE Team consisting of 2 HSE Advisors
- Assist the Production and Engineering Management teams in developing risk assessments and safe systems of work.
- Assisting with the maintenance of the sites environmental management system and compiling of reports aligned to the requirements of the sites Environmental Permit
- Ensure suitable SHE inspection and auditing programmes are established and implemented, including maintenance/follow up of corrective action databases and tracking of KPI’s.
- Support the development and delivery of Site Safety Meetings and other Safety communications
- Review, devise, write and implement suitable health, safety and environmental procedures
- Advise, coach and mentor employees on compliance with their legal health and safety duties.
- Investigate accidents, incidents and near misses, issuing reports and ensuring SHE Incident log is up to date and maintained.
- Support the delivery of SHE training and manage the competency matrix
- Maintenance of competent authority communication logs and completing reports for the competent authority, as applicable
- Emergency preparedness aligned to the sites COMAH Emergency Plan
- Fire risk assessments
Health and Safety Manager - Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate MUST come from the Manufacturing Industry as a Health and Safety Manager. You will also have the following skills, experience and qualifications:
- Hold a NEBOSH Diploma, NCRQ, NVQ Level 5 in Occupational Health & Safety or equivalent in Health & Safety
- Member of IOSH and working towards CMIOSH
- Minimum of 5 years Health and Safety experience gained from manufacturing, preferably high hazard industry such as chemicals or COMAH
- Risk assessment review and development
- Incident investigation, root cause analysis, auditing and report writing
- Knowledge of current SHE legislation/regulation
- Knowledge and practicable application of Competence and Training management systems an advantage
- Knowledge of Process Safety, Human Factors and Behavioural Safety an advantage
For more information please call Paul Gorton on (phone number removed).
LEAN Engineering Recruitment Ltd are acting as a 3rd party on behalf of our client. All applications will be held on our database for current and future positions.
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- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- asap
- Contract Length:
- Perm
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- Job Reference:
- 956343/PG2
- Job ID:
- 221410752
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