Health & Safety Manager

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Our Mission

At Puratos, we create innovative food solutions for the health and well-being of people everywhere. As the global leader in bakery, patisserie and chocolate ingredients, we help our customers to be successful with their business, by turning technologies and experiences from food cultures around the world into new opportunities.

We are more than 10.000 employees in over 85 countries and a consolidated turnover of 3.1 billion euros (in 2023). Our passion for innovation, a pioneering spirit and the unique Puratos culture drive our solid growth and vision for the future This, along with our commitment to our local communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.

To strengthen our team in the UK, we are looking for:

Health & Safety Manager

(Buckingham, UK)

Your Mission

Develop, implement, and integrate programs to create and sustain a safe work environment in where serious injuries and accidents can be prevented in compliance with Environmental, Health and Safety regulations and requirements both at local and at Group level. The Safety Manager will support stakeholders to positively contribute to Health, Safety, Security and Well-being of people and planet by enabling a Culture of Caring.

The scope of the job is complex with multiple manufacturing sites and methods, as well as an extensive network of sales reps. The Manager will need to work both independently and with teams to meet business needs across the organization and contribute to help drive the overall business and HSE strategy.

Puratos aim to Net-Zero emissions in our value chain and, by 2025 be Carbon Neutral in our operations. In line with the better planet charter Puratos also aim by 2030 to be Water Balance and have zero waste to landfill. This is an opportunity to innovate by leading the development and execution of environmental initiatives throughout our operations and ensure the company meet its sustainability goals.

What you will do

• Be the contact person for HSE aspects for the legal entity.
• Ensures the development and effective implementation of appropriate Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures, benchmarked against ISO45001, ISO 14001 and ISO50001 and provide for their updating in line with the purpose, mission, vision, strategies and objectives identified at group level and in compliance with legislation.
• Initiate and influence integration of HSE policies and procedures into the business and oversee compliance using local dashboards and analytics.
• Reporting/benchmarking: manage record/data keeping systems and statistics, identifying trends and suggesting improvement plans, conducting inspections and audits, providing Group level with the needed information.
• People development: Ensure effective education programs on HSE are in place increasing the sensitivity of the whole organization to good practices and implementing an effective communication.
• Provides technical support to senior management on any safety related issues.
• Provides HSE related input and validations into new projects and installations.
• Interface professionally with government officials in all areas of environment, health and safety.
• Define and lead execution of long range plan to our improve environmental performance (energy water efficiency). Build, maintain and coordinate an internal and external network of specialists.
• Local- Act within a country with multiple stakeholders such as GM, Operations Director, Site Managers, HR, Sales representatives, R&D, etc.
• Group - Act within a matrix structure of Regional, Business Unit and Functional complexity.

What we expect from you

• Fluent in English (spoken and written). Additional languages are a plus.
• Communication and influencing skills including decision making and problem solving skills.
• Having good analytical skills to collect select, structure combine and interpret data, being practical and detailed oriented.
• Ability to effectively interact with a diverse team of people of different levels of the organisation and outside (e.g. authorities, customers, etc.).
• Soft skills: autonomous, prioritizing, proactive, energetic, problem-solver, cooperative, curious
• Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization as well as organizations outside (regulatory agencies)
• Working knowledge in Health, Safety and Environment Management Systems, e.g. ISO 14001, ISO5001 and ISO45001.