Health and Safety Manager

Health, Safety, Environment (SHE) Manager

As SHE Manager, you will lead the ongoing development of Health, Safety and Environmental standards across the division, ensuring best practice is embedded throughout the business. You will work collaboratively with managers and employees to promote a culture of accountability, engagement and continuous improvement, while supporting the delivery of key operational and sustainability targets. This is an excellent opportunity for a confident and influential professional who is passionate about creating a safer, more sustainable workplace.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive HSE professional to play a key role in driving a positive safety culture, ensuring compliance, and supporting continuous improvement across the business.

Key Responsibilities 

• Coordinate, maintain and administer Health, Safety and Environmental documentation, policies and procedures.
• Conduct and support risk assessments, ensuring effective controls are implemented and maintained.
• Develop, review and implement Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) and safe working practices.
• Provide expert guidance on HSE legislation, regulatory requirements and industry best practice.
• Monitor and maintain corporate and divisional compliance standards.
• Support managers with audits, inspections and compliance reviews, ensuring actions are completed and tracked.
• Investigate accidents, incidents, near misses and compliance breaches, identifying root causes and corrective actions.
• Deliver health, safety and environmental training, toolbox talks and employee inductions.
• Maintain, analyse and report on HSE performance, safety statistics and sustainability data.
• Support the development and implementation of workplace wellbeing initiatives and employee welfare programmes.
• Work closely with Engineering and Operational teams to ensure equipment, processes and systems meet regulatory requirements.
• Liaise with clients, contractors, regulators and other external stakeholders on health, safety and environmental matters.
• Lead and support behavioural safety initiatives to improve employee engagement and safety performance.
• Conduct regular workplace inspections and audits, producing action plans with clear objectives to drive improvements.
• Identify training needs and coordinate effective HSE training programmes across the business.
• Support the delivery of annual site Health, Safety and Environmental plans and sustainability objectives.

What You'll Be Doing

• Driving a proactive safety culture where health, safety, wellbeing and environmental responsibility are at the heart of decision-making.
• Ensuring the business remains compliant with current and emerging HSE legislation.
• Partnering with managers across all functions to embed best practice and continuous improvement.
• Providing regular compliance reports, performance updates and gap analysis to senior management.
• Promoting employee engagement, wellbeing and behavioural safety across the site.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, reduce risk and enhance operational performance.

Person specification - Who you need to be

• Leads by example with a strong work ethic

• Have an interest and understanding of health, safety and environmental requirements and issues in the workplace.

• Experience in the use of Microsoft Office, in particular have a good knowledge of Excel.

• Have strong organisational and communication skills at all levels.

• Be able to work in a confidential manner.

• Be detailed, thorough, and accurate.

• Be able to prioritise and manage your own workload and tasks.

• Be pleasant, professional, and proficient.

• Be able to deliver training in a confident and proficient manner.

• Organised and calm under pressure.

• Friendly, approachable, and flexible – a team player.

• Proactive, positive, enthusiastic - demonstrates “can do” attitude.

Qualifications and Experience

• NEBOSH Certificate (or equivalent) essential

• Ideally educated to Diploma level

• Manufacturing /Packaging background preferred

• Environmental qualification preferred (but not essential as training will be given to the right candidate).

• Experience in the management of health, safety, and environmental systems.

• Experienced in preparing and delivering training and presentations to employees at all levels of the business.

• A current clean driving licence is desirable

Why Join Coveris Gainsborough?

Coveris Gainsborough is a well-established manufacturing site and an important part of the wider Coveris business. You'll join a supportive team environment where collaboration, continuous improvement and professional development are encouraged.

• Competitive Salary
• 25 Days Annual Leave (This will be increased by 1 day per full year of employment to a maximum of 28 days)
• Company pension scheme.
• Medicash healthcare scheme, providing support with medical, dental, optical and other health-related expenses.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Company sick pay scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering health and wellbeing support.
• Life assurance cover at 4x annual salary.
• Free on-site parking.