HSE Coordinator

A leading FMCG Manufacturer in Devon is currently recruiting for an H&S Coordinator / Health and Safety Coordinator to join their team. Reporting into the Health and Safety Manager, this Health and Safety Coordinator will review and update all task-based risk assessments, manual handling risk assessments, help deliver HSE projects and instructions for each production area along with updating near miss data, safety concern cards and ensure trending is escalated to relevant departments. Ensuring procedure are in place and implemented, hazards assessments are conducted, accidents caused by unsafe acts and conditions are reduced and energy and waste are driven down.

The role will be based primarily within the factory GMP area with a large portion of time expected to be spent at the manufacturing/packing lines engaging with multiple operators and assessing hazards directly. The H&S Co-Ordinator will be a key contributor to the delivery of the production team’s health and safety agenda ensuring it remains a priority within site production areas and a safe working environment is maintained.

Health and Safety Coordinator responsibilities include:

• Review, organise, update and maintain Safety Maps and Safety Stations for all production and packing areas and ensure staff in all areas are aware and trained on each map/station to ensure compliance
• Behavioral, near miss, safety concern, accident and incident tracking and trending
• Review, organise, update and maintain task-based risk assessments for all production activities and follow ups implemented to minimize or eliminate accidents, asset losses that might cause harm to one of the company’s employees, contractors, visitors and the Environment.  Review, organise, update and maintain manual handling risk assessments for all production areas
• Provides Health & Safety input for the plant for all new projects and change management activities. (i.e. change control, CDM)
• Participates in investigations to facilitate closure of identified non-conformances.
• Engage with Operators and Line Managers within each production area and develop good working relationships to effectively gather the necessary detail to create high quality risk management documentation as listed above.
• Liaise closely with the EHS Manager to ensure risk management documentation created by this role is aligned with company regulatory requirements
• Comply with all appropriate company defined Quality systems, processes and procedures
• Ensures re-training and coaching are taking place to drive a safety-perfect culture and to ensure Health & Safety standards and awareness are well understood throughout the plant organization.

You will be a Health and Safety Coordinator used to working in a busy Manufacturing environment. You will ideally be NEBOSH qualified and have excellent communication skills. You will be used to delivering training and ideally have project management skills.

To apply please email a cv to sara.frith@drnewitt.com