Environmental Health Safety Coordinator

Filtermist Limited; Telford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Filtermist supports its customers by providing them and their employees with clean air solutions – protecting people by ensuring cleaner, safer, more productive working environments. The Environmental health and safety (EHS) coordinator shall develop and enforce a workplace culture of health and safety. They shall develop and implement safety programs and policies, train personnel on new protocols, and ensure that the organisation is in compliance with all health and safety regulations and management system procedures and processes.

Main Duties will include:

1. Establish, maintain, and optimise an effective Integrated Management System in accordance with ISO 14001: 2015 and working towards ISO 45001: 2018.
2. Validates through meeting with the management team the definition of EHS goals and objectives.
3. Implementing new health and safety protocols and measures to ensure compliance with regulations.
4. Provide leadership to the UK location teams on all aspects of health and safety policies and best practices.
5. Develop, implement, and drive internal EHS metrics with associated problem solving to implement containment and countermeasures activities, that deliver Year on Year reduction in location performance metrics.
6. Provide Facility managed services to ensure all key equipment are fully operational and available to ensure continued customer shipments.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Provide leadership, guidance, and EHS management support to the location to achieve world class Lost Time Accident rate performance.
2. Work with location functional teams to attain and maintain ISO 14001:2015 compliance as well as to achieve process effectiveness as part of ISO 45001: 2018, inclusive of Electrical Safety, Equipment & Machine Safety, Ergonomics, Job Safety Analysis & PPE, Hazardous Work Permits, Powered Lifting & Pulling Equipment, Visitors & Contractors, and Workplace environment (Noise & LEV).
3. Generating assessment documentation, incident and accident reports, and health and safety manuals.
4. Understand, evaluate and report corporate sustainability metrics (CSRD).
5. Support facility or product stream transformations.
6. Define, Manage, and Improve key equipment availability through preventative, autonomous and breakdown maintenance practices.
7. Train/ Coach team leaders and employees on health and safety policies and best practices.
8. Assist all teams with structured problem solving via A3 methodology when necessary.
9. Define, Manage, and Improve the local EHS management system, as part of the UK Integrated MS.
10. Define and manage internal and external audit calendars, that drive identification of hazards and EHS violations (Product, Process, System).
11. Track internal and external non-conformances; ensure that necessary corrective and preventative actions are implemented on time by the relevant department.
12. Implementing new health and safety protocols and measures to ensure compliance with regulations.
13. Reporting to management, HSE, ISO and other regulatory agencies.
14. Preparing and submitting health and safety compliance documents to the relevant organisations.
15. Keeping abreast of the latest EHS trends, policies, regulations, and best practices.

Decision Making Authority:

1. Has authority to stop or postpone production and/ or deliveries in case of non-conformance, in agreement with Production Manager / CEO.
2. Has the authority to stop use of chemicals or process in case of detected risk, through liaison with relevant departments.

Planning and Organisation:

1. Ensure all workplace violations and/ or complaints are dealt with in highly efficient and professional manner.
2. Ensure that products supplied to customers agree with the requested EHS level.
3. Ensures that the EHS figures are reported to the Management Team and the Group in a timely manner.
4. Prepare and manage the EHS management review at least once a year.
5. Manages the development of the EHS management system and ensures they are technical capabilities available to achieve company objectives.
6. Manages development of and tasks of direct reports to achieve company objectives.