Health and Safety Manager

Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.

At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!

Joining Great Bear as a EHS Manager you will be the first point of contact for Health & Safety advice. The EHS Manager will be responsible to drive the Health & Safety culture on sites and promote and encourage a safe, open and honest working environment including raising awareness of Health & Safety, Quality and Environment standards required. The role will be inclusive of managing compliance, facilities for the site and property management for our tenants.

This role will cover sites -  Voltaic and Goresbrook based in Dagenham.

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8.00-16.00 (40 hour week)

Key Duties of an EHS Manager:

• Preparing and completing Health and Safety audits, ensuring documentation is fully updated.
• Conducting customer auditing, BRC and internal auditing.
• Playing an active role in monthly Health and Safety meetings.
• Devising safety briefs including safety conversations across the site.
• Assessing COSHH (Control of Systems Hazardous to Health) and assessing risk associated.
• Maintaining role of Fire Marshall and Racking Inspector and training employees of evacuation procedures.
• Managing controlled documents and controlling permits to work for contractors on site.
• Responsible for the Health and Safety for the site in conjunction with the General Manager.
• Implementing and maintaining third party quality agreements to ensure continuous and integrity of the supply of critical equipment and components.  
• Property Management - Maintaining contact with tenants on site with regards to H&S queries and compliance. 
• Facilities management - Point of contact for contractors etc for both sites. 

• Strong knowledge in Health & Safety legislation, good working practices as well as regulatory inspections/servicing compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act.
• Ability to demonstrate sound experience of ensuring a secure and safe site.
• Proven experience of a fast-moving distribution environment with experience of applying root cause and trend analysis.
• Experience of Health & Safety audits, project management and applying of Quality Risk Management.
• Ability to expedite non-conformities/compliance as a result of audit inspections.
• Able to provide the methodology to encourage continuous improvements in order to implement best practices.
• PC literate with a sound working knowledge of MS Office, with strong attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to persuade and influence employees and customers.
• Good time management skills with the ability and desire to solve problems.
• RoSPA qualification and HACCP experience is advantageous 
• IOSH and NEBOSH qualification is essential

As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work. We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.

Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement of 33 days inclusive of the bank holidays.
• Company Bonus  – We do our best work to succeed together. When we achieve our goals you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme 
• Private Medical Cover – This gives you peace of mind, you have choice, flexibility and speed of access to the most clinically appropriate care via Bupa
• Pension scheme – we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 5% employee and 8% employer
• Life Assurance -  x4 your annual salary 
• Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
• Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
• Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
• Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!

If you meet the requirements for the above role and are looking for your next career opportunity please apply now and become a part of our #WinningTeam!