Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Manager - Blackburn

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Job Description

Would you like to redesign your career and work in a dynamic environment? Join a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Manager

Location: Blackburn

Your responsibilities:

To ensure the company adheres to all relevant health, safety and environmental legislation and best practices, while promoting a positive health and safety culture across the organisation. The HSE Manager will implement, monitor, and advise on strategic health and safety management systems, ensuring continual improvement and compliance in all areas of health, safety & environmental.

Your profile:

Qualifications:
• NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety or equivalent (essential).
• Technical IOSH or Chartered IOSH(desirable).
Experience:
• Proven experience in a health and safety management role.
• Experience in conducting risk assessments, audits, and inspections.
• Experience in liaising with external bodies such as the HSE and insurance companies.
• Deep knowledge of QMS, health & safety, and environmental standards for the Manufacturing sector
Skills:
• Strong understanding of health and safety legislation and regulations.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage at all levels.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience in data capture and analysis for improvement planning.
• Ability to manage projects and lead change effectively.
• Deep knowledge of ISO standards, BSI processes, and regulatory frameworks
Personal Attributes:
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Self-motivated with a proactive approach to health and safety.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.

Agencies are not considered at this time.

About Us

The WEPA Group is a future-oriented European family business specialising in the production and distribution of sustainable hygiene paper. WEPA offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that provide a safe feeling of hygiene and contribute daily to the well-being of millions of people. With 4,000 employees, the WEPA Group manufactures hygiene products such as toilet paper, paper towels, tissues and napkins at 14 European sites.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years. We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We are convinced of one thing:

our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.