Health and Safety Manager

About us:

The Novoferm Group consists of 5 companies; Novoferm, The Garage Door Company, BGS, Robust & Horton.

Novoferm is a member of the Sanwa Shutter family, one of the largest European manufacturers of automated garage doors systems, supplying high quality, reliable and innovative products, through a global network and thousands of Approved Distribution Partners.

The Novoferm Group are an equal opportunities employer.

Main purpose of the role:

The Health & Safety Manager is responsible for shaping and maintaining a company’s safety culture. Their goal is to ensure that all company operations adhere to a set of industry-compliant safety standards, that reduces accidents and resource wastage, whilst supporting improvements to efficiency and customer satisfaction.

A core competency for the Health & Safety Manager is the ability to deliver effective training for all employees. This will focus on safety related training and competency whilst including training of activities related to safety or where controls are required to contain risks.

The Health & Safety Manager will collaborate with all departments, such as quality control and operations, to ensure a team approach is adopted and best practice is shared and used throughout. They will also collaborate with other UK business units to ensure best practice is shared and deployed where appropriate.

Scope of the role:

Determine the strategic direction and work priorities (in conjunction with line management) for the continuous improvement of the Factory and Sites H&S management programme systems. Controlling the risks of all NFUK employees whether operating on the main site or remotely from the main site activities.

Primary Objectives:

• Complying with legal obligations and business defined policies, standards and accreditation (i.e. fire safety, ISO accreditation, etc.)
• Establishing and maintaining all risk management practices and controls across all business activities
• Introducing, maintaining and promoting proactive activities leading to positive demonstrated Accident Prevention and awareness of risks (pro-active accident prevention)
• Ensuring all accidents and incidents are responded to effectively and in a timely manner in line with legal responsibilities and company policy (re-active accident management)
• Ensuring that training is suitably designed and delivered with demonstrated skills and competencies deployed across the business where required. Acting as the training officer for the business supporting work centres and others tasked with training and skills development in successful delivery.

Secondary objectives

• Support personnel development in all areas
• Maintaining records for Safety and Training
• Supporting best practice in root cause investigations and improvement activities
• Establishing a reporting suite ensuring all employees and management are informed of all safety related activities and issues

Qualifications – Skills – Experience required for the role

• Educated to NEBOSH level
• Comprehensive understand of the application of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and other relevant legislation
• Experience in managing relationships with partners, stakeholders and external organisations
• Experience in a manufacturing background
• Suitable IT skills covering a broad range of applications
• Must be a team player with suitable leadership skills
• Reporting and auditing, internal and external
• Employee education / training – Train-the-Trainer would be a benefit
• A completer finisher with an eye for detail
• Excellent communicator at all levels

Company Values

As a business, we recognise the importance of tailoring our decisions and actions around our company values and we are looking for an individual who can demonstrates these.

PROTECTING PEOPLE

We pride ourselves on having an impeccable safety culture. We constantly strive to improve our practices, in order to protect all personnel. We actively encourage reporting of near misses, assisting in the prevention of future accidents.

CUSTOMER FIRST

Our customer’s success is our goal. We work for and with them to identify and deliver solutions that exceed expectations. We stay with them for the total life cycle of our products and services and ensure the safety of end-users and our people

MOVING FORWARD

We are energised by the drive for continuous improvement. We anticipate and adapt to changing requirements and constantly seek ways to work smarter. We welcome new ideas with an open mind.

PERFORMANCE PROMISE

We keep our promises. We drive new ideas to realisation with speed and an obsession for customer-driven quality. We thrive on challenges and take pride in our “can do” attitude.

TOGETHERNESS & TRUST

We can win only by working together. We encourage participation, and we share information and ideas. We trust and respect each other and recognise good performance. Our behaviour is characterised by the highest ethical standards

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £35,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Manufacturing: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• NEBOSH (required)

Work Location: In person