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Health and Safety Manager – ALPLA UK – Manufacturing

Golborne Location (WA3)

Monday to Friday – Salaried £50,000 - £55,000 + Excellent Benefits

Benefits package (Annual Bonus, Generous pension contributions, Life Assurance, Employee Christmas vouchers, PerkBox – High Street brand discounts, Long service awards, Subsidised onsite canteen)

At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world. Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 45 countries

Purpose

The Health & Safety Manager will be responsible for managing Health, Safety and Environment Management systems and activities across production and warehouse facilities.

The H&S Manager will lead safety across the site identifying hazards, reducing risk and preventing accidents. Reporting directly into Plant Manager, supporting wider H&S Team including Coordinator and H&S Administrator

Tasks & responsibilities: (Not limited to)

* Advise all levels of the site, providing technical support and motivating stakeholders to follow proper administration of health, safety and environmental programs.

* Implement ALPLA programs, apply relevant technical guidance and control physical, chemical, electrical, mechanical and ergonomic hazards and potential risk from the operations.

* Arrange Health & Safety training for all plant employees and communicate tool box talks.

* Promote a positive HSE culture amongst all employee groups, engaging stakeholders when appropriate.

* Facilitate a risk assessment programme for continuous review.

* Present incidents, near miss and injuries data for the management morning meeting and take corrective actions

* Arrange external risk assessments and surveys

* Ensure the management team undertake the management of change and impact assessments prior to variation effecting health, safety and environment.

* Participate in the management review process

* Arrange a schedule of internal audits and reporting against the ISO45001 standard.

* Chair a programme of health and safety committee meetings

* Other site team responsibilities and projects as may arise

Education / Experience:

* Relevant qualification in HSE, NEBOSH Diploma / certificate

* Substantial Health and Safety management experience within a FMCG organisation (ideally plastics / packaging) with knowledge and exposure to Distribution/ Warehousing function

* Experience of a multi-site role with exposure to a variety of production machinery and associated ancillary equipment.

* Experience of managing external parties and 3rd party contractors

* Extensive Knowledge of health and safety standards working within ISO14001 and 45001 frameworks

* Excellent MS Office user experience

* Ability to analyse rules and guidance to assess business impact

* Identify and analyse organisational needs with solid problem solving to provide pragmatic solutions.

* Line management experience

* Confident and professional with the ability to inspire and motivate people

Our new perk box offering a wealth of benefits such as: -

* Money off purchases such as food, drink, cinema, tickets, clothing, and homeware and so much more

* A number of freebies across the perk box site, such as free coffees

* Online access to free exercise and yoga classes with 24/7 access to qualified therapists

Please apply to this position for immediate review – contact Kerry McCormick – Internal Recruiter - for more information