Job Role: Group Head of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)
Location: Northamptonshire, some travel to local business units
Reporting to Country Operations Director
Job Type: Permanent
Industry: Manufacturing
Job Reward: £65k - £85k Target Band plus Car, Bonus and Benefits
We are hiring a Group Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Manager to lead the safety function across multiple factories and sites for a global leader in Manufacturing.
- Are you a passionate, visible and people-centric Health and Safety professional?
- Able to empower a large workforce at all levels of the organisation to own their own safety agenda?
- Can you lead and implement this company’s cultural change programme in HSE excellence? As a true HSE Business partner?
Responsibilities and Challenges - Group Head of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)
- You will own the country HSE function and take full responsibility for all elements of Health, Safety & Environmental across the Group
- Empowered to lead the Health, Safety & Environmental function across the business
- Lead the Health and Safety agenda across Operations, Engineering and facilities management service providers, ensuring legal compliance
- Coach and mentor the HS&E and facilities support teams
- Leads BBS (Behaviour Based Safety) program
- Embed a strategic HSE framework of world-class safety standards
- Leadership role providing direction, guidance, and support on the HSE & Wellbeing strategy
- Responsible for all HSE legal compliance, driving and fostering a safe, high-performing working environment
- Develop, maintain and deliver legal compliance
- Act as the subject matter expert for HSE
- Generate and deliver a robust risk management strategy
- Direct line management of Health & Safety Advisors across sites
- You will work with and influence Site Leads and senior managers, and stakeholders in each of the sites and factories
Role Requirements - Group Head of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)
- Ability to lead, visibly, engaging all levels of the site; a natural ability to influence, engage and drive HSE cultural change through your direct reports
- Comfortable working at a strategic level, naturally
- NEBOSH Diploma, ideally chartered IOSH or working towards chartership or IEMA would be advantageous
- Empower all levels of workforce, floor to the SLT
- Visible and approachable - ALWAYS!
- Delivering an effective framework for safety program management
- Key interface with the HSE systems, policies, and procedures and UK & Corporate Behavioural Change through thousands of people
- Execute a Health and Safety Plan for the UK manufacturing Division, drive improvements in site operations, HSE performance and cultural change
- Serve as mentor and trainer for SLT members, key stakeholders’ managers and other key supply chain leaders
- Environmental compliance experience linked to sustainability and Net 0 initiatives
- Experience working within an FMCG/fast-paced manufacturing environment within an HSE leadership role, ideally multi-site, time sensitive and complex
- Demonstrable experience of developing safe systems of work, carrying out H&S Audits, conducting risk assessments and delivering training
- A driving license is essential
Job Reward – Group Head of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)
- Car
- Pension scheme
- Medical cover
- A Highly Competitive salary
- Career progression opportunities on a Global Platform
- 33 days holiday
- Opportunities for some hybrid working
- Access to ongoing learning & development on a global platform
For more information on this role, please contact Mike Butler on 0113 2123519 or send a copy of your CV to [email protected]
Candidates who are currently a Senior HSE Manager, Group HSE Manager, Divisional HSE leader, Head of HSE, HSE lead, or HSE Director, may be suitable for this position.
