Health and Safety Officer - Manpower

apartmentManpower UK Limited placeLeigh calendar_month 

Permanent

Manpower Wigan's manufacturing client is currently recruiting for a permanent Health and Safety Officer to join their established team at the Leigh, Wigan site.

This role adds value by ensuring that the manufacturing plant operates safely, without harm to the environment and is compliant with all Safety, Health and Environmental laws.

Key Responsibilities and Expectations
  • Establishes a meaningful set of metrics that measure plant safety and environmental performance to identify performance issues and opportunities
  • Understands applicable UK legal requirements and obtains additional expert interpretation as needed.
  • Uses own and others' expertise to define solutions and improvement initiatives
  • Ensures an adequate level of knowledge in safety, health and environmental matters for self and other team members. Procures training programmes to close identified gaps
  • Owns the plant housekeeping programme, ensuring an excellent level of performance
  • Works with external providers to define an appropriate employee health screening programme
  • Co-owns and updates key safety, health and environmental management documents and processes, including the Emergency Plan, environmental compliance plan, PPE matrix, safe work permitting

Skills and Qualifications

NEBOSH or similar health and safety qualification
Experience of ISO9001 and ISO14001
Proven competence in risk assessment and risk management in a manufacturing environment
A pragmatic and practical approach to problem solving, and the ability to prioritise opportunities into a deliverable action plan are essential
Able to work effectively in a fast-paced and diverse team environment

The ability to coach and train other team members is highly desirable

Hours of work are Monday to Friday working 08.00am until 16.00pm

Site Location: Leigh

Role: Full time permanent contract plus benefits

Interested and would like to know more about the role? Please apply now with your up to date CV highlighting your matching experience/skills to the job role.

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