Company: Leading, Fast Paced Manufacturing Organisation
Role: Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Director
Location: UK Wide, hybrid role – able to practically go to Leeds HQ 2- 3 days per week
Salary and Package: £108,000 – £162,000 per annum £8K car allowance, with significant bonus and comprehensive benefits package
Seeking a proven and experienced HSE Director to strategically lead the Health, Safety and Environment function towards a goal of reaching safety excellence. The company is a complex, high risk manufacturing organisation boasting 30 manufacturing and logistics sites across the UK.
This is a unique and incredible opportunity to still be hands on, roll their sleeves up and get stuck in, while having full creative control in the design and implementation of HS&E following a large‑scale acquisition, aiming to collate the best of both organisations.
Responsibilities
- Opportunity to shape the HSE function from the ground up
- Full ownership of Environment and sustainability agenda
- Build and lead a team of 7, offering mentorship and coaching
- Present regularly at Board level covering Health, Safety, Environment (performance, strategy and risk)
- Comprehensive internal and external stakeholder management
- Have a platform to shape strategy and ensure the business is future fit
- Offering a steady hand, guiding the business through significant transformational changes following a recent acquisition
- Building a robust and solid culture, risk and governance framework to set them up for success and help the organisation to become a FTSE 100 business
- Take the business through a cultural change journey towards interdependency
- Able to highlight and predict current and future risks to ensure the business is fully prepared and protected
- Establish a robust and comprehensive crisis management plan
- Full budget accountability
Key Qualities & Leadership Profile
- A trusted, credible and dynamic thought leader
- Strong people manager, to lead them to future success
- Can be both strategic and operational/hands‑on when required
- Driven and proactive
- A practical leader who can communicate with gravitas
- Winner of hearts and minds, who can support coach and mentor
- Support, create learning opportunities
- Roll up their sleeves and not afraid to get stuck in
Qualifications & Background
- NEBOSH Diploma, or equivalent
- CMIOSH Ideally or working towards
- Environment Management Qualification / ISEP
- Multisite, FMCG manufacturing or general manufacturing background
- Experience within lean and manual production processes
- Proven, competent leader is essential, who has previously held a Director title
- Knows what excellent safety practice looks like
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