Head of Hse

**Vacancy Title**:Head of HSE**

**Vacancy Location**: Ellesmere Port**

**Engagement Type**:Permanent**

**Your Company**

Survitec are the world’s largest survival technology provider. For over 166 years, we have been protecting lives in the air, on land and at sea, through the design, manufacture, and servicing of Survival Technology.

Today, we are a global community of 3,000 professionals with presence in 96 countries partnering with our customers to provide innovative solutions that reduce risk and help keep you safe.

That's why the world's leading maritime, defence & government, energy and aerospace organisations trust us when it matters most and why we have been awarded the Gold Award by the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme

**Your New Role**

Our QHSE family is dedicated to developing, implementing, and maintaining an effective health, safety and environment management system that drives continuous improvement, safe systems of work and behavioural practices at all levels of the organisation.

This role leads development and implementation of a Health, Safety and Environment assurance strategy for a division of Survitec. It drives activity to gather, analyse and interpret health, safety, and environmental data to advise on improvement to key / critical business processes.

**What You Can Expect from the Role**

**Key Responsibilities and accountabilities**:

- Implement and maintain Survitec compliance programme, ensuring HSE systems and procedures are in accordance with global framework and local regulation
- Implement systems and practices needed to monitor and assure compliance with Global IMS policies, group, and customer requirements. Compile statistical analysis of activity and outcomes and recommendations for improvement
- Advise leadership team(S) on global HSE framework, steps needed to improve HSE performance and on any HSE compliance issues
- Conduct operational, health, safety, and environmental audits according to the HSE audit calendar, ensuring appropriate corrective actions are agreed with business leaders and colleagues. Resolve issues arising from audits and refers serious or contentious issues through appropriate escalation routes
- Communicate the local HSE action plan, explaining how this relates to the business strategy and action plan and the broader Survitec mission and vision. Ensure all allocated colleagues are aware of their responsibilities towards group and local HSE policy and process and motivates people to achieve local business goals and drive continuous improvement
- Lead and/or participate in HSE incident or non-conformance investigations and customer complaints. Ensure HSE related incidents are recorded and reported appropriately. Ensure lessons are learned and uses findings to identify and drive improvements
- Monitor supplier CAPA and improvement actions
- Lead by example, carrying out projects to drive continuous improvement of the overall HSE systems and processes
- Conduct Annual Management Review to schedule, enabling compilation of the Global HSE Review
- Use Survitec’s formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs, planning and implementing actions to build their capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others throughout the organisation to increase awareness and capability in HSE management, enabling others to improve performance and fulfil personal potential
- Manage and report on team performance. Set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and holds them accountable for achieving these. Take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team and personal objectives
- Deliver a budget for HSE activity

You will have the opportunity to develop in your role and feel proud of the work you do. Working at Survitec is fast paced, challenging and incredibly rewarding. This is not just another job; this is your career.

**The Experience, Qualifications and Skills You Will Have**

**Essential Criteria**
- 7+ years experience in a senior HSE position
- 3+ years of people management experience, planning and managing resources to deliver functional objectives
- Great communicator
- Confident in delivering and reporting on critical business challenges to senior leadership

**Why You Should Work for Us**
- 33 days holidays including public holidays
- Hybrid Working Policy
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance up to 4x salary
- Pension Scheme
- Training & Professional Development Opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Workplace Reward & Recognition scheme

**How to Apply**

**Survitec is an equal opportunities employer. Our diverse global workforce protects lives, every single day. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive culture where our people feel valued appreciated, and free to be who they are at work. Because, to provide service and excellence to our customers we must mirror their diversity. But more importantly because it is the right thing to do.