Senior Health and Safety Manager

Senior Health and Safety Manager
Hours: Full time
Contract: Permanent
Location: Nuneaton - with travel to sites in your sector, mainly Midlands based
Salary: £60,000 plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About the Job

As the Lead Senior Health and Safety Manager for our Technology, Consumer, and eCommerce sector you will provide leadership and co-ordinate the activities of the site H&S Managers. You will facilitate the implementation of Unipart’s Health and Safety policies across multiple sites and provide technical health and safety support to sites, the business unit, and projects - promoting the principle that effective management of health and safety is an integral part of efficient business and operational management.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Implement wider sector strategy whilst developing and implementing divisional strategy
• Provide technical health and safety support to individual sites, business units, and projects
• Promote the principle that effective management of health and safety is an integral part of efficient business and operational management
• Deliver consistency across multiple and varying sites
• Advise management on Health and Safety legislation, safe methods of working, prevention of hazards to health and suitability of plant, protective equipment, and control measures
• Initiate timely and appropriate actions in emergency situations, contact and communicate effectively with all relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Monitor and promote effective utilisation of the Unipart Logistics Accident Recording and Investigation Process, ensuring all incidents across the contract are reported in a timely fashion with an appropriate level of detail
• Support Regional H&S Managers with RIDDOR investigations and ensure all F2508 reports are approved by Group
• Ensure all sites have technical risk assessments i.e. PUWER/LOLER/COSHH as required
• Ensure suitable technical advice is provided by H&S Managers at the design stage of changes to layout, systems of work, and introduction of new materials/machines
• Assist GMs in the development of objectives and targets and monitor success
• Review and monitor training programmes and requirements
• Ensure appropriate documentation is provided to meet Unipart Group reporting requirements
• Ensure each site has a maintained Comm Cell for safety management and performance
• Regularly review and provide comment on accident trends for Business Units and Sites Report to Unipart Logistics Boards as required
• Monitor the effectiveness of the Safety policy by carrying out inspections in association with site management and providing written reports of such inspections, including Complete internal Health and Safety Audits, ISO 45001 internal audits and support annual accreditation
• Work with Group H&S to ensure Health and Safety policy and procedure supports contract needs
• Support Group reporting requirements

About You

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

Essential:

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent
• Chartered Member of IOSH or working towards
• Experience in warehousing and logistics

Desirable:

• Experience of working in 3PL especially in the technology, consumer, or eCommerce sectors

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience in the following: Health and Safety Director, Occupational Health and Safety Manager, Senior Safety Compliance Manager, Workplace Safety Supervisor, Health and Safety Operations Manager, Safety Standards Coordinator, HSE Compliance Manager, Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, etc.

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