Health and Safety Officer (Food Production)

• Grow a Better Business (Strategy)
• Assume accountability for the health and safety of our employees across our sites driving improvements across all areas of production while developing processes that help promote a strong health and safety culture and reduce our accidents
• Ensure that the strengths and values of O'Brien Fine Foods are further reinforced with best practice and integrity as key values of the business
• Develop inter personnel relationships to drive health and safety culture within the organization
• Develop relationships both internally (employees) and with key external (Safety bodies, government agencies, auditors, suppliers) stakeholders and develop a Health and safety polices and standards within our business
• Lead, coach and develop our teams on health and safety policies, procedures, and risk assessments
• Organise and conduct health and safety training, including induction training, refresher training and manual handling
• Develops strong working relationships between employees and sites encouraging collaborative teamwork
• Develop training tools to drive awareness and implementation of health and safety initiatives
• Lead initiatives to increase and develop best practice safety solutions, ensuring that there is communication across the business and a mentality of continuous improvement

• Membership with IOSH to at least Graduate Level (Grad IOSH)
• Degree in Health and Safety or a related discipline
• 1-2 years' H&S experience working in a manufacturing environment (desirable, but not essential)
• Manual Handling Instructor (Desirable, but not essential

Collins McNicholas