The Role:

To champion the behavioural change and cultural development required across the site to ensure an industry-leading position for the safety and wellbeing of our people and our environment.

Ensure that Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) is maintained to the highest standard across site in line with the company H&S policy and compliantly managed across all our staff as well as visiting customers, suppliers, and hauliers.

Based at Warrenpoint, Newry, Northern Ireland.

As Health Safety and Environmental Compliance Manager, you will echo the quality, legality, and authenticity of all our values at DELI LITES and give customers the opportunity to achieve their extraordinary results through the passion we have for our people and food.

Your Duties:

• Drive standardisation, improvement, and controls in HSE across the whole of the site.

• Lead the identification and maintenance of the H&SE Risk Register across site to agree and implement a continuous improvement programme.

• Track H&SE Improvement Action Plans, together with associated KPIs, to identify corrective actions and ensure continuous traction of reducing the potential of accident risk.

• Review and sign off all H&SE investigations across site to ensure appropriate disciplines, root cause analysis, solution design and implementation.

• Be involved with the review of any new proposed site capital investment projects ensuring that they are fit for purpose from a H&SE perspective and have the appropriate safe methods of working in place prior to commissioning.

• Lead all H&SE compliance requirements in line with all legislative, regulatory and market / customer requirements.

• Chair a monthly H&SE meeting that reviews all accidents, environmental non-compliance, and corrective actions.

• Lead H&SE governance across the whole site by developing the right corporate standards and operating procedures.

• Develop and implement H&SE training and coaching programmes across the site.

• Champion H&SE to drive behaviours, best practice, and excellence across the site.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Member of the Institution of Occupational H&S (NEBOSH desirable)

• Good knowledge of behavioural based safety theory and how to effectively put into practice.

• Extensive and demonstrable experience of H&SE leadership across food production sites, warehousing, transport, and logistics.

• Proven experience of handling Health and Safety Executive and local regulatory compliance inspections.

• Proven track record for initiating and delivering safety behavioural change across food producing sites.

At DELI LITES IRELAND we have a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections and groups within the community. DELI LITES IRELAND is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.