Health, Safety and Environmental Lead

at  Kerry

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Minimum NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent qualification.
• Good knowledge of local H&S & Environmental Legislation.
• PC literate including being able to work with Microsoft Office and H&S software.
• Stakeholder management: communicate with both internal and external; and public and private stakeholders.
• Leadership skills: ability to influence and lead the HSE culture at front line level.
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification (Or actively working towards).

ABOUT THE ROLE

Here at Kerry, we are currently recruiting for a HSE Lead onsite in Charleville, Co. Cork. The ideal candidate will be someone who posses a solid background in HSE through a combination of education and experience, to take real ownership of a busy and varied role. You will be a conscientious leader who can support and drive positive change, alongside being a confident communicator. reporting into our SLT.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Primary lead & coordinator for Health & Safety & Environmental activities.
• Advises management teams on legal requirements, industry best practice, and prevailing group standards.
• Works in conjunction with site management and the Regional HSE team to drive the safety agenda.
• Actively engages the front line and management to maintain and own the pro-active safety culture.
• Creates the forums and opportunities to involve and communicate with colleagues.
• Creates/develops standards/performance frameworks for performance assessment and benchmarking (e.g., ISO ISO14001/ISO50001/SMETA/SWA).
• Coordinates the generation and routine maintenance/review of risk assessment and safe systems of work processes.
• Coordinate incident investigation processes, recording and reporting industrial injuries as required.
• Designates and carries out routine Site Health & Safety/Environmental audits to comply with the local site and wider group requirements.
• Review, update and maintain Site Health, Safety & Environmental Management Systems, taking account of industry best practice and any prevailing Kerry Group standards (Human Element/Hazardous Processes/LIFE).
• Support & advise Occupational Health & HR as required to ensure the health & wellbeing of our colleagues.
• Build effective Company, local, regional & national HSE networks to share & learn best practice.
• Maintain the Environmental Management Systems (EMS) in line with Company or other prevailing standards (ISO14001 & ISO50001)