Health And Safety Manager

Your new Company:

Häfele is an internationally trusted name supplying furniture fittings, ironmongery and hardware to the trade. We are recognised for our extensive range and quality of products as well as our expertise in the industry and excellent customer service. Häfele UK provides comprehensive customer support through our best-in-class sales and support team.

Your new role:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated Health and Safety professional to lead our Health and Safety team to promote a positive safety culture, drive continuous improvement and maintain Health and Safety as the Company’s Number One priority.

You will be able to work collaboratively with the business to ensure safe working practices are adhered to whilst ensuring that the Company continue to meet their service levels for our external customers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivery of H&S improvement projects year on year.
• Maintaining our existing ISO45001 management system standards and managing the annual external audit.
• Leading and developing the team, motivating them to perform as Health and Safety experts, providing guidance and support to all colleagues across the business.
• Regular reporting to the Board and Company to deliver key updates.
• Responsible for setting the Health and Safety strategy – analysing Health and Safety statistics to make recommendations, and to drive improvement projects.
• Chairing H&S committee meetings.
• Keeping up to date with legislative updates, assessing their relevance to HUK and communicating any requirements to key stakeholders.
• Ensuring any statutory and internally scheduled inspections are carried out as necessary.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Be commercially aware, with a hands-on approach to H&S.
• Be resilient, self-motivated and have a high level of integrity.
• Be approachable and able to communicate at all levels, getting buy in from key stakeholders.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation, with the ability to translate guidance into a practical way of working.
• Minimum NEBOSH certificate or equivalent.
• Experience of successfully managing and developing a team.
• Experience of implementing safety improvement projects, specifically relating to culture change.
• Lead Auditor ISO45001 (or equivalent) management system standards (desirable)

What you’ll get in return:

You will receive a competitive salary, depending on experience; company bonus scheme, healthcare, pension and additional holidays with length of service, plus excellent learning and development opportunities. This is an exciting role where you will have the opportunity to make a strong positive impact right from the start.

This position is a full time, permanent role, core hours of work are 8:45am to 5:30pm, Monday to Friday. The role is hybrid but would require the successful candidate to be on site 4 days a week. Please send your current total remuneration package, CV and covering letter to the Human Resource Department

Shortlisting and interviews for this role will take place while the advert is live; the vacancy will be closed as soon as the successful candidate is appointed. Applicants are therefore encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible. We are committed to equal opportunities.