Health and Safety Lead
10 days ago
Bridgwater
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health & Safety professional to join a well-established and highly respected manufacturing business in Bridgwater. Our client is a leading manufacturer of specialist packaging products supplied across Europe. Their innovative packaging solutions support other manufacturing sectors, combining industry expertise with cutting-edge manufacturing processes. The business continues to invest in operational excellence, safety, and sustainability. The Role As the Health & Safety Team Lead, you will play a key role in driving Health, Safety, and Environmental performance across the site. Reporting directly to the Operations Director, you will lead HSE initiatives, ensure legal compliance, promote a proactive safety culture, and support continuous improvement throughout the operation. This is a hands-on leadership role suited to someone who can influence at all levels, challenge where necessary, and work collaboratively with operational teams to deliver meaningful improvements. Key Responsibilities • Champion a positive and proactive safety culture across the site, • Act as the lead for all HSE matters and influence behaviours at all levels, • Work closely with Production, Engineering, and Quality teams to embed HSE into daily operations, • Ensure compliance with UK Health & Safety and environmental legislation, • Support risk assessments, safe systems of work, and permit-to-work processes, • Conduct site inspections, audits, and safety tours, ensuring actions are completed effectively, • Lead and support incident investigations and root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventative actions, • Monitor HSE performance data and identify trends for improvement, • Manage statutory reporting requirements, • Oversee environmental compliance relating to waste, emissions, and resource usage, • Support sustainability initiatives and environmental improvement projects, • Support behavioural safety initiatives and workforce engagement, • Maintain HSE systems, records, and documentation, • Support ISO audits and ensure documentation remains compliant and accessible About You We are seeking candidates with at least 3 years’ HSE experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment. You will be a confident communicator with a practical, hands-on approach and the confidence to escalate concerns when required. • Proven HSE experience within manufacturing or industrial environments, • Strong knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation, • Experience leading incident investigations and implementing corrective actions, • NEBOSH General Certificate in Health & Safety, • Strong Microsoft Office skills, • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, • Awareness of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 management systems (Desirable), • Experience within plastics, packaging, or food manufacturing (Desirable), • Quality leadership experience (Desirable) If you are an experienced Health & Safety professional looking to make a real impact within a growing manufacturing business, we would love to hear from you