Health And Safety Manager

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.

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard from LER within 10 working days then your application has been unsuccessful but please feel free to contact us for an update