HSE Director

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. To have full creative control in the design and implementation of HS&E following a large-scale acquisition, aiming to collate the best of both organisations.

• 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 to facilitate 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

Who are we looking for?:

• A trusted, credible and dynamic thought leader
• Strong people manager, to lead them to future success
• Who 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 and Background:

• NEBOSH Diploma, or equivalent 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

For more information, please reach out to Sophia at HSE Recruitment Network.