Health And Safety Officer

Are you our missing ingredient?

Leeds, West Yorkshire, salary £30 - £35k; 10% annual bonus; 31 days holiday inc bank holidays; pension scheme; life assurance scheme; free carparking; cycle to work scheme

39 hours Mon to Thurs, 8am to 5pm, Fri 8am to 4pm

Dairygold Food Ingredients UK is the Number 1 cheese ingredient solutions supplier to the UK’s major food manufacturers, retailers and food service customers. We have achieved rapid growth over the last five years and have ambitious plans for this to continue. ‘AA’ Grade BRC accredited, we’ve invested heavily in our people and recognise that recruiting, retaining and developing talent are critical to our future success.

Our site in Leeds manufactures high quality, functional soft and liquid cheese and our customer base and range of end product applications is growing rapidly. Our highly automated site has benefited from a multi-million-pound investment programme to support our growth agenda, and to remain at the forefront of a highly competitive and fast-moving market.

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced H&S Officer to join our team. As a business we have a commitment to driving a proactive H&S culture supporting the implementation of our HSE plan. Reporting to the Health and Safety Manager you will have a varied role focusing on ensuring regulatory and process compliance and supporting projects across the business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure all accidents, incidents and near misses are correctly reported, and provide support to investigation teams in accordance with our policies and procedures.
• Provide accurate and timely daily, weekly, and monthly data for reports which communicate the site’s H&S performance.
• Conduct a detailed safety walk at least once per week and develop the template as part of our continuous improvement programme.
• Review Contractor Competency documentation for compliance.
• Conduct regular reviews of live H&S actions.
• Manage risk assessments.
• Chair the monthly H&S meeting, produce meeting notes, and distribute.
• Liaise between training providers and line managers to organise external H&S training.
• Deliver site inductions to new starters.
• Conduct manual handling, Personal Risk and COSHH plus PUWER assessments.
• Maintain the training matrix at each site.
• Conduct internal H&S audits.
• Manage hazard observation reporting on our software platform.

Who are we looking for in our Health and Safety Officer?

• NEBOSH Certificate or higher.
• Significant experience of working within a similar H&S role, within manufacturing/engineering environment.
• Detailed knowledge of current Health and Safety legislation and its application in a manufacturing environment.
• Confident, well organised, with a flexible ‘can-do’ attitude, have attention to detail and be a team player who supports and influences others.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company car
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to Relocate:

• Leeds: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person