Health & Safety Coordinator - Manufacturing Environment

Job Title: HSE Coordinator

Location: Cardiff Docks, CF10 4RP

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

About us:

We are one of the fastest growing Pet Food manufacturers in the UK with offices and manufacturing sites based in Lancashire, Somerset and South Wales.

Our products range from Food, Treats, Toys, Accessories, Health and Hygiene. Our portfolio of brands includes: Webbox, Webbox Naturals, Bob Martin, Felight, Meatiful, TastyBone, Spikes and WildThings.

About the role:

Reporting to the Group HSE Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the Health and Safety agenda at our production site in Cardiff.

This is a newly created role that offers autonomy to develop and drive standards and initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintaining health and safety reporting procedures
• Helping action ideas for continuous improvement across Health & Safety
• Working with employees to implement effective visual management
• Support to administer various H&S programmes
• Fostering a H&S culture and bring people on board with a "safety first" approach
• Assist with delivering H&S inductions to the new starters
• Take ownership of the management of our Occupational Health Service (external provider)
• Ensure all training records relating to H&S are kept up to date and refresher courses booked in a timely manner to ensure that none expire (Truck, First Aid and Fire).
• Support with arranging training programmes for job related H&S matters
• Ensure any briefings following any incidents and shared
• Support the Group HSE Manager with Incident management: register of incidents, RIDDOR, root cause analysis, investigations, corrective and preventative actions, metrics and improvement plans
• Ensure H&S inspections and audits are carried out in line with the planned schedules
• Ensure risk assessments are securely stored, kept up to date and reviewed within the suggested time frames
• Manage all DSE assessments on site
• Be part of the H&S improvement teams across site
• Communicating H&S information to the workforce using dashboards, newsletters, bulletins
• Carrying out regular site tours to provide visible H&S awareness within the company and escalating any breaches of H&S that are found

About you:

We are looking for a driven and experienced Health and Safety Co-Ordinator who has the following:

• Manufacturing expertise
• NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (would be advantageous)
• A strong degree of competence in Microsoft applications, particularly Excel.

Benefits:

A great opportunity to join a leading pet product business who invest in the development of their employees. You will have the autonomy to develop this newly created role, working with a wide range of technical operatives and management and drive standards and initiatives throughout the company.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Health and Safety Adviser, Health and Safety Officer, Health and Safety Manager, SHE Officer, SHEQ Manager, Health and Safety Coordinator, SHEQ Officer, SHEQ Advisor, Health and Safety Advisor, Health and Safety Risk Assessor, Environmental Compliance, Environmental Regulatory Compliance, Manufacturing Environmental Compliance may also be considered for the role.