Production Management - Environmental, Health and Safety Manager
Purpose of the role:
To ensure the organisation is compliant with all current Environmental, Health and Safety legislation.
To work at all levels of the business to drive a culture of EHS best practice across the organisation.
To provide effective governance, assurance and continual improvement across occupational health and safety, environmental compliance, sustainability and the EHS management system.
Duties and responsibilities:
Design, develop, implement and oversee the organisation’s EHS programmes and procedures to safeguard employees, contractors, visitors and surrounding communities.
Maintain and continually improve the EHS Management System in alignment with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, including document control, management review and continual improvement activities.
Maintain the site EHS legal and other requirements register, assess regulatory changes and ensure actions are implemented to maintain compliance.
Develop and maintain a risk-based internal EHS audit programme, ensuring findings, corrective actions and effectiveness reviews are completed and reported to senior management.
Develop, maintain and report on the site EHS risk register, ensuring significant risks are controlled, assigned and escalated appropriately.
Lead or support incident, accident, near-miss and environmental event investigations, including root-cause analysis, statutory reporting and verification of corrective actions.
Develop, maintain and report on auditable EHS metrics, dashboards and trend analysis, including leading and lagging indicators, near misses, incidents, RIDDOR and environmental performance.
Manage environmental permitting and compliance requirements, including emissions and discharge monitoring, waste controls, statutory submissions, regulatory notifications and liaison with the Environment Agency and other relevant bodies.
Co-ordinate site sustainability and ESG activities, including environmental objectives, corporate reporting, resource efficiency, carbon reduction and improvement programmes.
Support the occupational health surveillance governance process in partnership with HR and operational managers, including the exposure and testing matrix, provider liaison, recalls, repeat surveillance, referrals, follow-up actions, records and programme effectiveness reviews.
Administer and conduct suitable and sufficient risk assessments, including COSHH, DSEAR, workplace, task and occupational health assessments, ensuring identified actions are completed.
Provide EHS governance for site projects and change activities, including management of change, CDM 2015 requirements, contractor competence, RAMS review, permit-to-work arrangements and project handover requirements.
Oversee key statutory and operational safety programmes, including fire safety, emergency preparedness, PUWER, LOLER, occupational hygiene, hazardous substances, waste management and spill response, working with appointed competent persons where required.
Establish and maintain EHS training, induction and competency arrangements for employees, contractors and managers, including the EHS training matrix and refresher requirements.
Develop the culture of Health and Safety across all areas and functions of the business, delivering high levels of EHS engagement, consultation and participation.
Chair EHS meetings and contribute to senior management reviews, providing accurate reports, minutes, actions, recommendations and escalation of significant risks or non-compliance.
Act as a principal contact during regulatory inspections, certification audits and external assurance activities, coordinating evidence, responses and corrective actions.
Carry out such other duties that may be reasonably requested.
Person Specification:
Essential:
Qualifications
Relevant professional qualification in occupational health and safety, environmental management, engineering or a related discipline. NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent level qualification preferred.
Current knowledge of UK environmental, health and safety legislation and recognised management system standards.
Experience
Experience in an EHS management role within an engineering, manufacturing or similarly regulated environment.
Experience of developing and maintaining EHS management systems, audit programmes, risk registers and legal compliance arrangements.
Experience of regulatory liaison, incident investigation, contractor governance and senior management reporting.
Technical Knowledge
Environmental permitting, emissions monitoring, waste management and environmental incident response.
Occupational health surveillance governance and exposure-based health risk management.
Risk assessment, COSHH, DSEAR, CDM 2015, PUWER, LOLER, fire safety and permit-to-work principles.
Skills and Competencies
Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively at all levels of the organisation and with external regulators.
Strong planning, prioritisation and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple compliance programmes and deadlines.
Able to analyse and interpret complex data, identify trends and convert findings into practical actions.
Confident in challenging unsafe or non-compliant activity and escalating material risks appropriately.
Professional, objective and discreet when managing sensitive health, incident and regulatory information.
Excellent IT skills and experience of producing clear EHS reports, dashboards and management information.
Driven to continuously improve current practice and promote a positive, open and accountable EHS culture.
Desirable:
Technical Knowledge
ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems.
Root-cause analysis, corrective action management and EHS performance measurement.
Skills and Competencies
Experience using AI-assisted tools to develop, maintain and optimise Environmental, Health and Safety Management Systems, including policy development, gap analysis, auditing and compliance management.