Health & Safety Manager
Job Title: Health & Safety Manager
Salary: Starting salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Location: This role will be based at HQ, Kilwaughter, Co. Antrim
Purpose: As Health & Safety Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with all health and safety regulations at our HQ in Kilwaughter, Co Antrim and multi sites in UK/Ireland. Reporting to the Operations Director, you will play a critical role in promoting a safe working environment, conducting risk assessments, and implementing health and safety policies.
You will be an ambitious and driven individual who thrives in a demanding and dynamic environment, delivering best practice and excellence through coaching and mentoring your Business Partners.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage the Health and Safety budget
- Oversee the site's Health and Safety program, ensuring legal compliance and ongoing improvement
- Keep all risk assessments and safe work systems current and applicable to site operations
- Maintain the site's Health and Safety systems
- Conduct specialised risk assessments, such as Manual Handling and COSHH to mitigate risks in line with standards, commercial, and legislative requirements
- Support site maintenance teams to ensure completion of statutory inspections and safe machinery use in compliance with legislative requirements
- Oversee emergency procedures and site fire safety arrangements according to fire safety policy and risk assessment
- Monitor and report incidents classified under RIDDOR to the HSE and handle any resulting correspondence
- Ensure accurate implementation and investigation of accidents/incidents to identify root causes and prevention
- Ensuring sites are fully compliant with all Health & Safety legislation requirements relevant to our industry
- Support each of the business units with best practice
- Organise and chair all H&S Meetings and prepare monthly Health and Safety performance reports to present to the Senior Management Team
- Ensure company Accreditations and contractual compliance is maintained for Health and Safety
- Work with Business Partners to implement the Health & Safety strategy incorporating education, culture, compliance and setting and improving behaviours and standards
- Work in partnership with HR to ensure all Health & Safety training and education is implemented
- Management of Health & Safety compliance schedule, internal audits and inspections
- Undertaking a variety of administrative tasks
Kilwaughter Minerals Limited
PERSON SPECIFICATION September 2024
Job Title: Health & Safety Manager
Criteria | Essential | Desirable |
Education |
| NEBOSH qualification in Fire Safety and Risk Assessment |
Experience |
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Skills | Demonstrated ability in influencing, coaching, communication, and time management Excellent organisational and follow-up skills; competent in problem solving, and decision making to support the business units Experience in Accident Investigation Proficient in using Microsoft Office applications Driving on-site Health & Safety initiatives and Continuous Improvement | |
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Personality:
- An individual who can mix fun, cheer and enjoyment with being effective
- Focused on health, safety and wellbeing, people performance and capability development
- Enthusiastic and passionate about our customer experience, market segments and our reputation
- A values ambassador who leads by example and walks and talks our values