Health & Safety Manager

20 May 2024

VACANCY:

HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGER

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Health & Safety Manager to join our team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate, reporting to our Factory Manager, will join our team at Middleton where we produce classic British Brands alongside authentic Japanese sushi seasonings and vinegar.With a passion for continuous improvement and improving cross-department ways of working, the Health & Safety Manager will have a strong focus on aligning approach and processes with Mizkan’s Bury St Edmonds site as well as ensuring compliance with legislation, reporting and adopted standards.

Your responsibilities:

As a key member of the site management team, you will:

• Be accountable for ensuring the site’s health & safety management systems are up to date and are compliant with health & safety legislation and Mizkan Euro local rules.
• Act as a source of information and advice to maintain site statutory compliance.
• Assist with the management of site health & safety projects, training and risk assessments, working with departmental teams to ensure all are kept up to date and accessible.
• Ensure all health & safety related issues above manager level are reported to the site Factory Manager and Operations Director as applicable.
• Promote health & safety standards and behaviours by leading by example, coaching others and challenging unsafe practises and behaviours.
• Lead on ensuring the site OHSMS ISO 45001 certification is maintained.
• Provide support to department managers in relation to control of chemicals and CoSHH assessment.
• Supports the Senior Leadership Team in creating an engaging and proactive safety culture .
• Must lead by example in embracing the two principles; to offer only the finest products and continuously challenge the status quo.

Our ideal candidate will:

• Hold NEBOSH General Certificate – pre 2018 specification
• First Aid Trained
• Level 2 Food Safety
• Fire Marshall Trained
• Experience of conducting internal audits
• Experience working in a Health & Safety role within food manufacturing
• Construction Design Management (CDM) Awareness and Responsibility Training
• Free Food Wednesday (the Wednesday before payday)
• Subsidised canteen
• Free access and use of the Employee Assistance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Referral programme
• Wellness programmes
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Enhanced Company pensioncontributions
  

Salary: From £45,000.00 per annum (DOE) + 10% performance related bonus