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Who are we looking for

As a key member of the UK’s leadership team and supporting sites, you will build the UK and site, management systems, improvement strategies, establish UK governance and performance metrics and provide professional support and legislative recomendations/planning , coaching and guidance on all aspects for enviromental, sustainability & health and safety matters. You will need to be a technical expert with detailed knowledge of HS&E law and its successful application.

Who are we

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 23,000 colleagues, all committed to lowering our carbon footprint and becoming climate neutral by 2050, for better food and a brighter future.

Areas of responsibility

Be the ”go to” person for the leaderships team on all aspects of environmental, sustainability and health and safety matters, while developing, managing and embedding effective, consistent implementations of legal HS&E policies and procedures, across the UK sites, to enable compliance and continuous improvement.

Ensure alignment with business standards and processes and work with all people on site to ensure HSE processes are live.

Manage the UK’s sustainability strategy, by setting high standards and goals for all aspects of sustainability, supporting our goals of reducing climate impact across the UK business and a reduction in waste.

Giving confidence to stakeholders and customers, that we promote a healthy, safe and efficient culture within Danish Crown UK.

Provide legal and technical guidance to the UK and all people on site, particularly the leaders and supervisors.

Drive, create and support the implementation initiatives arising from new chnaging HSE legislation to embed controls to mitigate risks.

Through internal stakeholder engagement, design, develop and implement and manage programmes that grow the HSE brand, using technical knowledge and expertise propose and develop a variety of initiatives to facilitate culture maturity and improve behaviours that underpin site management and performance metrics

Develop and deliver the UK and site health, safety and environment strategy plan and roadmap to improve performance across all reactive and proactive metrics. Develop, implement and provide site insight, governance, data and key performance indicators to drive improvements and effective risk management. Establish and design local arrangement to deliver requirements for group reporting and governance.

Create systems and educate the UK site teams to ensure effective investigation of all incidents. Have deep technical knowledge and experience to decide on the level of detail and complexity of investigation, implement and manage of the incident recording system.

Lead and conduct, where required effective investigations

Using deep technical knowledge and application and managerial /soft skills provide direction and coaching to develop the UK HSE capability. Grow functional capability and expertise within the HSE team and colleagues on site, to maximise performance and potential. Implement and lead committees involving representatives from all levels.

Co-ordinate and manage UK and local stakeholder relationships (EA, HSE, customers, auditors, community). Ensure that legal statute is followed and applied correctly so that HSE incidents are managed and reported to the enforcing authorities. Lead and manage enforcement visits, external auditer, customer visits to successful completion.

Using detailed technical knowledge of project management, and a large variety of standards (insurance, fire, security, machinery, chemical, biological etc) ensure that HSE matters are timely and correctly considered and implement in capex projects.

Use of advanced technical knowledge to ensure any project, equipment and change to method of work is compliant, eradicates hazards and improves risk or sustainability.

Lead the Health, Safety and Environment agenda on all location’s for audit programmes to ensure compliance with agreed standards and recommend areas for improvement.

Assess needs, plans for improvement, and manage security and security teams across the UK sites to improve site security arrangements. Ensure compliance with legal and customer requirements.

Specific tasks

Annual plans and strategy

Create and maintain communication to the business and Leadership on all aspects of sustainability and H&S

Monthly key performance indicator reporting – flow in improvement plans

Quarterly site performance reviews

Yearly business team performance

Talent management for UK site team

Lead and conduct effective investigations

Effectively apply a variety of techniques after determining the appropriate level and detail

Incident investigation and action close out

Improving claims defensibility and performance

Development programmes

Development, talent and succession plans in place

Positive and reduction in the level of engagement with external bodies

Create proactive engagement plans with external stakeholders to improve reputation

Create and implement community plans and engagement

Effective completion of projects – compliance and insurance

Use of advance technical knowledge ensure any project, equipment and change to method of work is compliant, eradicates hazards and improves risk or sustainability HSE standards

Document control and Internal audits

Closure of actions Security arrangements

Ensure compliance on BRC and other required audits

What we can offer

· A very competitive Industry leading pay rate

· Better than the industry Holidays entitlement with bank holidays

· Great pension package

· Opportunity for Bonus, related to site targets

· Self medical

· Generous car allowance

· Well subsidised canteen and other facilities

· Company car may be available for the right candidate prepared to travel- or allowance

To name just a few benefits Danish Crown UK offer

Education and relevant experience

· Ideally educated to degree level or holds a relevant professional qualification in Health and Safety management

· Experienced in Health and Safety management ideally gained in a manufacturing environment

· Practitioner member of IEMA (PIEMA) or working towards with environmental qualifications

· Additional knowledge of occupation health and security management is desirable

· Demonstrates good soft skills, working with others to build momentum and passion on a goal

· Demonstrable experience of continual technical development including current Health and Safety legislation

· Demonstrates good influencing skills and has experience motivating stakeholders all levels

Ability to be an effective and key member of the site leadership team

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £55,000.00-£62,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Rochdale, OL16 4SY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: Roch308
Expected start date: 03/04/2023