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Health & Safety Manager – Refresco UK, Bridgwater, Somerset (just off J23 of the M5)

Competitive salary, performance bonus, private healthcare, good company pension scheme

Refresco the world's leading independent soft drink's manufacturer, have a fantastic opportunity for an 'agile', 'excellent' and 'responsible' Health &Safety Manager to join the leadership team at our Refresco Bridgwater site in Somerset.

Reporting to the Site General Manager and a key member of the Site Leadership Team, you are a subject matter expert on HSE issues, across the manufacturing site. You lead the site safety programme and contribute to delivery of the UK HSE agenda.

You will be responsible for driving forward the HSE management systems on site and will be part of a team of HSE Managers working across our UK sites together with our Head of HSE, to ensure consistency is achieved and best practice is shared.

Refresco Bridgwater is one of the largest and most progressive drink's manufacturing sites globally. Some statistics for you – 650 colleagues across 158,000 square metres, 4 factories, a large warehouse and transport facility, all under one roof, housing the latest, leading edge engineering technology producing 800 million litres per annum of soft drinks for our many own label and contract manufacturing customers from 28 production lines.

This is an excellent career opportunity if you are an experienced HSE Manager seeking a new challenge in a growing and stable company.

About the Role

The Bridgwater site is a 24/7 operation. As HSE Manager you are an important role model and member of the site leadership team. You own and manage the site HSE objectives, HSE training, audit schedules, non-conformances and close outs, employee liability claims and PPE requirements. You will need to manage and report on accident statistics, environmental annual permit returns, and KPI's. You manage a small team including a Sustainability Manager.

As HSE here are some of your key responsibilities:

• Maintain and continuously improve the site HSE MS procedures to ensure robust processes are in place
• Provide technical support, advice and guidance to managers on HS&E legal compliance and best practice
• Work closely with the Engineering department to deliver capital projects
• Play an active part of yield/waste reduction on site with the production team, and play an active part in the management of the Refresco Sustainability programme
• Actively promote a HSE culture to ensure participation is across all levels
• Co-ordination of site EMS and Environmental Permit
• Providing support, assistance and guidance to Departments on risk assessment, emergency response, HSE audits and inspections and development of HSE operating procedur

About You

You will have extensive HSE experience ideally working within an FMCG, or related industry, manufacturing environment, with up to date knowledge of UK HSE legislation. A NEBOSH Diploma in Health & Safety or equivalent is preferred as is a formal environmental qualification.

This role is ideal for an experienced health, safety and environmental professional who understands the principles of risk management and has extensive experience with integrated management systems that are aligned with ISO 14001, ISO 45001. The ability to work collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams and build effective working relationships is essential. Experience of designing and implementing HSE initiatives and developing training materials would also be beneficial.

As a high profile manager you will be a role model to many others and ultimately, we want our people to align with, and resonate the Refresco Values as we believe these are what have made us, and will continue to make us, successful.

Find out more about our Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

Reward & Benefits

The salary for this role is dependent on experience. We offer an annual bonus incentive and a good company pension scheme, personal private healthcare, 3 x basic salary life assurance plus 25 days paid holiday. We have free on-site parking at the site.

We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling - https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/ - as well as Perkbox – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks and wellbeing tools for all employees - https://www.perkbox.com/uk

About Refresco
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We're thirsty for more and growing fast which is why we invested £1.25 billion in expanding our global manufacturing footprint making us the largest independent bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices in the world. We currently produce 12 billion litres from 78 manufacturing plants in 15 countries and we're only just getting started...
Our UK Business unit has six manufacturing plants providing a great place to work for 1800 employees producing private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers including Tesco, ASDA, Morrison's, Sainsbury's, ALDI and Lidl. We also manufacture for branded customers such as Innocent, Monster, Ocean Spray, Weetabix, Del Monte and Um Bongo. Whether it's packed in Cartons, PET, Aseptic PET or Cans, we ensure that our products are not only manufactured to the highest quality standards, but they get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.