Health Safety and Environment Manager

**Health Safety and Environmental Manager (HSE)** with an excellent understanding of HSE legislation, industry standards and best practice, strong leadership and excellent interpersonal skills is required to join our well-established team atalphagary based in Chinley, High Peak Derbyshire, East Midlands.

**SALARY**:Competitive + Benefits

**LOCATION**: Chinley, Derbyshire, East Midlands

**JOB TYPE**: Full-Time, Permanent

**JOB OVERVIEW**

We are looking for a Health Safety and Environmental Manager (HSE) with an excellent understanding of HSE legislation, industry standards and best practice, strong leadership and excellent interpersonal skills.

As the Health Safety and Environmental Manager (HSE) you will be the main point of contact for developing and implementing the strategy, policy, advice and guidance across the UK.

Working as the Health Safety and Environmental Manager (HSE) you will have responsibility for one site, ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to.

**APPLY TODAY**

If this job looks like your ideal position then please send in your CV as soon as possible for our Recruitment Team to review.

**ABOUT US**

About Alphagary, an Orbia business and part of the Polymer Solutions group

Orbia’s Polymer Solutions business Alphagary is a global leader in the design and manufacture of specialty polymer compounds and additives for polyvinyl chloride compounds including stabilizers, plasticizers and colorants.

With over 60 years of experience, we have earned a reputation for providing innovative, functional, and durable solutions to a broad marketplace, often custom formulating a material to meet end-user requirements. We are committed to sustainable development,offering products formulated with bio-based content and recycled content, and active participation in initiatives that promote a circular economy. Our passion for quality, health and safety practices is evidenced by ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHS ISO 45001 certifications.

Alphagary employs 1,000 people across 9 facilities located in the US, UK, Mexico, Colombia, and India, serving 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. We are an Orbia business and part of the Polymer Solutions group.

**DUTIES**

Your duties as the Health Safety and Environmental Manager (HSE):

- Promote good health, safety, and environmental policies and culture throughout the UK Compounds Business Unit activities
- Develop and implement a HSE strategy and plans to support the sites annual business plan and long-term strategy
- Ensure HSE management systems are maintained in accordance with relevant standards and Orbia guidelines, policies and procedures and through regular review are continuously developed, improved and implemented through consultation and communication withsenior managers and other line managers
- Identify training needs and to provide, or where necessary source, programs to help communicate and implement HSE policies, practice and procedures within the site
- Establish and maintain systems for measuring and monitoring HSE performance, providing statistical summaries to the Directors, Managers, HSE Steering Group and Site Safety Groups identifying any significant trends and occurrences and ensuring improvementactions are shared throughout the organisation
- Co-ordinator of the HSE Steering Committee
- Be the organisations representative in its dealings with external outside bodies
- Continue implementation of the 14001 systems to obtain accreditation

**CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS**
- Seasoned and experienced EHS manager with a minimum NEBOSH general certificate in health and safety but diploma preferred
- Some experience of working within an IOSH framework would be beneficial
- Experience running or implementing 14,001 systems
- Experience operating a legal register
- IEMA Certificate in Environmental Management
- Excellent understanding of HSE legislation, industry standards and best practice
- Strong leadership and influencing skills and the ability to form strong effective relationships
- The ability to constructively challenge safety behaviours, management thinking and current procedures and processes
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and IT skills

**Why choose Alphagary?**

**Advancing Life** - You see and touch our durable, high-performance and sustainable materials everywhere, every day

**Keeping You Safe** - Our culture of safety is dynamic and deliberate. Our greatest asset are our people

**Values that Matter** - Embracing Diversity, Taking Responsibility, Being Brave

**Hands-on Training** -You’ll receive on-the-job training and guidance to keep you learning and gaining highly marketable skills

Like many of your teammates here, you won’t just be building up job skills - you’ll be building a career

**NO AGENCIES PLEASE**

**HOW TO APPLY**

To be considered for this job vacancy, please submit your CV to our Recruitment Team who will review your details.

JOB REF: AWDO-P10127

This job is being advertised by AWD online on behalf of alphagary