BU Head of SHE

We have a great opportunity for a Safety, Health & Environment Manager to join our team within Coveris. Travelling is required across the UK to cover all our Paper sites and our S&K facility in Czech Republic. As our Safety, Health & Environment Manager, you will be responsible for supporting The Coveris Group in the safe planning, delivery, and review of a variety of complex projects across all areas of the business while ensuring compliance with The Coveris Group Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Policies, Standards, and legislation.

About us

We are a leading European packaging company that manufactures flexible and sustainable solutions for some of the world’s most respected brands. We develop packaging that protects all types of products – from food to pet food, from medical devices to industrial and agricultural goods. Through our broad level of technical expertise, our high-quality packaging extends the lifecycle of products to help reduce waste and resource wastage. Together with our customers, we are constantly working on new attractive and sustainable packaging solutions.

- Annual sales of €900M
- 29 Production Facilities
- 4,100 Employees
- 4,500 Customers
- 3 Business Units – Paper, Films, Flexibles
- Markets – Food, Pet Food, Industrial, Medical, Agriculture, Home & Personal Care (Non-Food)
- Corporate Office – Vienna

Principal Accountabilities:

• Implement the BU Paper HSE strategy across all sites, ensuring the strategy is communicated within the business and is known and understood.
• Develop existing and new policies and procedures for the management of SHE within the Paper business, using the UK SHE Regional Director for support and guidance.
• Work with all internal departments to define, measure, improve, and control all current and applicable technical procedures.
• Implement and deliver a robust internal auditing/housekeeping process.
• Develop an incident reduction process to identify and eliminate repeat accidents.
• Involvement in customer visits where needed to support audits/customer knowledge requirements.
• Preparation of SOPs, Risk Assessments, and SSOW for all activities on site.
• Devise and implement an audit process to establish site-wide compliance with corporate procedures and HSE Law.
• Ensure that all policies and procedures are consistent with corporate standards and policies and UK legislative requirements, aligning to Group policies where relevant, working in collaboration with UK SHE Regional Director.
• Maintain awareness of current and potential requirements and develop appropriate policies in a timely manner.
• Facilitate the arrangement of training for all staff in all relevant areas of HSE, Fire Control & associated/other procedures, along with any new training designed by Group if BU Paper deems it necessary to roll out.
• Compliance with all manufacturing policies, procedures, and systems.
• Conduct ASIs frequently.
• Implement Key Performance Indicators to demonstrate improvement across all manufacturing and office-based departments.
• Support the technical and manufacturing teams, ensuring compliance and acting as the key point of contact.
• Build a robust culture of compliance to all procedures and processes across the Paper Division.
• Audit existing procedures and assess, implement corrective actions, and risk assessments.
• Provide support in investigations of incidents/accidents and other breaches of compliance, along with rolling out the necessary training and monitoring near hits.

Candidate Specification:

- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in a relevant role, preferably in a manufacturing environment (packaging)
- NEBOSH Certification / Diploma Level 6 in Occupational Health and Safety
- Track record of improvement for SHE policies
- Excellent project management skills
- Familiar with Process Improvement knowledge including ISO 14001
- Excellent communicator (written and verbal) at all times
- Strategic and innovative thinker
- Organised and calm under pressure
- Friendly, approachable, and flexible – a team player
- Professional in all activities with high influencing skills
- Proactive, positive, enthusiastic - demonstrates “can do” attitude
- Strong commercial awareness
- Leads by example, but effective delegator
- Travel may be required; therefore, a current, clean driving licence is an advantage
- Computer literate with Microsoft packages

Selection:

This is an excellent opportunity to join a progressive business that invests in people. Should you feel that your skills and experience match the specification, please submit your covering letter and CV along with your salary expectations to our team. Due to the volume of applications we receive, unfortunately, we are unable to provide individual feedback. If you have not heard from us within 7 days after the closing date, then please assume that your application has not been successful.