Environment, Health and Safety Manager

Birkenhead

Job DescriptionWho will you be working with?We are seeking an experienced Safety, Health, and Environmental Manager to join our team in Birkenhead. The Birkenhead site supports our customers through maintenance and operation optimisation with customised solutions for spare parts, repair, and overhaul activities on existing trains for brake discs, brake pads, brake blocks, self contained dynamic brake systems.Role: Safety, Health, and Environmental ManagerSalary: £CompetitiveLocation: Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside (CH41 1LF)Contract Type: Permanent, Full-TimeHow will you make a difference? You will have overall responsibility for driving Safety, Health and Environmental excellence across the site, ensuring that best practice and statutory obligations are fully met. As a partner to the Senior Management Team (in-particularly Operations & Logistics Management and Supervision), you will be responsible for embedding a safety culture ensuring full employee engagement in SHE activities to drive a culture of zero harm. What will your typical day look like? Responsible for the development, management, and implementation of the SHE strategy for site, ensuring where required it is linked to the wider UK and Wabtec Global vision. Work closely with the site management and supervision to implement best practices and raise awareness.Coach and develop the SHE team, to partner with the business and ensure personal and professional development, setting clear objectives and supporting their delivery as required.Implement a site audit programme, ensuring compliance with all associated legislation and management system requirements. Ensure all audits are carried out and ensure that any remedial recommendations are followed up.Principal contact with external, regulatory, audit, and trade bodies on health, safety, and environmental matters e.g. HSE, EA, BSI.Lead the continued evolution of the SHE Management System to ensure that it is fit for purpose and delivers the competence required to meet all regulatory, safety, and quality requirements.Develop and monitor SHE KPI’s and provide management with statistical analysis and take remedial action where necessary.Monitor the implementation of Risk/CoSHH assessments ensuring suitable and sufficient safe working instructions are determined and communicated as appropriate. Manage records of incidents and accidents and producing statistics for managers, ensure compliance with RIDDOR regulations, and provide recommendations for ensuring non-repetition of incidents/accident.What do we want to know about you? A track record of delivering SHE improvements within a manufacturing environment (desirable).Excellent knowledge of all Health, Safety & Environmental legislation with practical experience in SHE law.Experience in all regulatory compliance (ISO’s 45001, 14001, 18001,9001 etc).Previous people management experience.NEBOSH Health & Safety Qualification.Engineering qualification/background (desirable).Lead auditor qualification (desirable).Training qualification (desirable).Experience with MS Applications.If you don’t have all the above criteria don’t worry, we would still like to hear from you as we live our values always put people first, and strive to expand what is possible.About Wabtec: Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make your and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology, and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.Apply today!Legal authorisation to work in UK is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.*Please note that we do not accept agency candidate submissions without a formalised agreement with Wabtec Talent Acquisition. If you are an agency/third party Recruiter and have not been engaged by Wabtec for this search, we do not owe you a fee if you submit a candidate to the applicant tracking system that is ultimately hired.