Safety, Health & Environmental Senior Manager inBlagdon inBlagdon PUBLISHED 10 MAY 2024

So, what will I be doing?

We are looking for a Health, Safety and Environmental Senior Manager to head up the Central Health and Safety team, working across Yeo Valley to ensure the safety of our co-owners.

You will head up a team of 4 SHE Business Partners, all looking after each of the manufacturing sites, providing great team management and steer for each of the sites they are responsible for.

Key responsibilities:

  • Actively contribute to the development of the long term business strategy, ensuring SHE requirements and best practices are fully incorporated with particular emphasis through the Passionate People strategy group.
  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise to ensure that evolving SHE legal and ISO standards continue to be correctly interpreted and incorporated in our policy frameworks and operating practices.
  • Build trusted relationships across the business, coaching and challenging leaders to inform, support and enable them to agree progressive Safety, Health & Environmental policies, standards and outcome objectives.
  • Actively champion SHE requirements to ensure that they are fully integrated in our operational procedures and training.
  • Support managing SHE risks by challenging and validating our systems, processes and compliance to Legal & ISO requirements through training, audits and coaching.
  • Develop and lead a programme of continuous improvement in respect of our SHE practices and outcomes.
  • Identify SHE specific learning needs and work in partnership with the L&D team to identify appropriate development solutions to meet them.
  • Inspire, develop and lead the SHE Business Partner team, supporting SHE policy and outcome delivery across our sites and co-owner communities.
  • Create an environment of engagement and influence with respect to SHE consistent with our co-ownership philosophy and to enable continuous improvement
  • Subject Matter Expert to the Executive Team and the Board providing data, insight and guidance to the Directors to enable them to effectively discharge their legal and moral responsibilities with respect to Safety, Health and Environment.
  • Lead our SHE interactions with external Regulators, Auditor's and Insurers to ensure these relationships are managed effectively and the expertise they offer is used to further inform and benefit our policies and operating practices.
  • Lead member of the incident management team ensuring effective best practice response to any serious and / or complex SHE event.
Sounds interesting, what do I need?


Essential:

  • Extensive experience in delivering Health, Safety & Environment Subject Matter Expertise within complex operating environments
  • Level 6 Qualification in Occupational Health & Safety
  • Level 5 Qualification in Environmental Management

Desirable:

  • Chartered Member of IOSH
  • Practitioner Member of IEMA
  • FMCG industry experience
Why should I join the family?

We're independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK's major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK's packaged yogurt.

We're sure you don't need convincing, but there's a whole host of benefits that we offer including:
  • 25 days holiday allowance
  • non-contributory pension scheme
  • life cover
  • healthcare cash back plan
  • cycle to work scheme
  • subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
  • preferential rates with our partners
  • annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
  • learning and development opportunities; we're committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow
Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can.
So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don't miss the opportunity to join us!


Unfortunately, we're not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will
only
accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal
at the point of instruction
.
So, what will I be doing?

We are looking for a Health, Safety and Environmental Senior Manager to head up the Central Health and Safety team, working across Yeo Valley to ensure the safety of our co-owners.

You will head up a team of 4 SHE Business Partners, all looking after each of the manufacturing sites, providing great team management and steer for each of the sites they are responsible for.

Key responsibilities:

  • Actively contribute to the development of the long term business strategy, ensuring SHE requirements and best practices are fully incorporated with particular emphasis through the Passionate People strategy group.
  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise to ensure that evolving SHE legal and ISO standards continue to be correctly interpreted and incorporated in our policy frameworks and operating practices.
  • Build trusted relationships across the business, coaching and challenging leaders to inform, support and enable them to agree progressive Safety, Health & Environmental policies, standards and outcome objectives.
  • Actively champion SHE requirements to ensure that they are fully integrated in our operational procedures and training.
  • Support managing SHE risks by challenging and validating our systems, processes and compliance to Legal & ISO requirements through training, audits and coaching.
  • Develop and lead a programme of continuous improvement in respect of our SHE practices and outcomes.
  • Identify SHE specific learning needs and work in partnership with the L&D team to identify appropriate development solutions to meet them.
  • Inspire, develop and lead the SHE Business Partner team, supporting SHE policy and outcome delivery across our sites and co-owner communities.
  • Create an environment of engagement and influence with respect to SHE consistent with our co-ownership philosophy and to enable continuous improvement
  • Subject Matter Expert to the Executive Team and the Board providing data, insight and guidance to the Directors to enable them to effectively discharge their legal and moral responsibilities with respect to Safety, Health and Environment.
  • Lead our SHE interactions with external Regulators, Auditor's and Insurers to ensure these relationships are managed effectively and the expertise they offer is used to further inform and benefit our policies and operating practices.
  • Lead member of the incident management team ensuring effective best practice response to any serious and / or complex SHE event.
Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential:

  • Extensive experience in delivering Health, Safety & Environment Subject Matter Expertise within complex operating environments
  • Level 6 Qualification in Occupational Health & Safety
  • Level 5 Qualification in Environmental Management

Desirable:

  • Chartered Member of IOSH
  • Practitioner Member of IEMA
  • FMCG industry experience
Why should I join the family?

We're independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK's major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK's packaged yogurt.

We're sure you don't need convincing, but there's a whole host of benefits that we offer including:
  • 25 days holiday allowance
  • non-contributory pension scheme
  • life cover
  • healthcare cash back plan
  • cycle to work scheme
  • subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
  • preferential rates with our partners
  • annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
  • learning and development opportunities; we're committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow
Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can.
So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don't miss the opportunity to join us!


Unfortunately, we're not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will
only
accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal
at the point of instruction
.


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