Environmental, Health & Safety Manager

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Company Overview

With two centuries of family heritage, Suntory Global Spirts is a world leader in premium spirits. As a truly global business, we bring together the best of our culturally diverse heritage. We value both agility and long-term thinking; we share a collective commitment to excellence and a dedication to craftsmanship. Across borders and roles, we collaborate to delight our consumers responsibly whilst contributing to a more sustainable society for all our stakeholders.

Our Vision is Growing for Good, and our mission is to be the world's most admired, fastest-growing premium spirits company. We're a business that runs on responsibility, integrity, ambition and drive, and we celebrate exceptional performance. We welcome our people to dream big and tenaciously pursue ambitious goals - we call it our Yatte Minahare Spirit.

• Translate the UK EHS strategy into operational plans across allocated operations, ensuring consistent implementation and performance.
• Support and provide expertise to EHS Regional Leads.
• Provide EHS leadership to Central Site(s) Leadership Teams.
• Develop annual EHS improvement plans.
• Deputise for the Senior Manager as/when required- EHS Compliance.
• Lead and manage the SCOTS safety rep team, ensuring collaboration and action delivery

• Lead operational engagement with HSE & SEPA representatives, escalating strategic or enforcement matters to the Senior Manager.
• Implement UK EHS governance requirements and management systems.
• Maintain ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 compliance.
• Provide operational oversight of audits, inspections and assurance activities, ensuring consistency of approach and effective closure of significant findings
• Manage significant compliance risks across assigned sites.

• Lead compliance with COMAH, DSEAR, COSHH, PUWER and environmental legislation for areas of responsibility.
• Hold operational responsibility for the Upper Tier COMAH warehouse complex.
• Manage the Occupational Health provider, programme and senior management relationships.
• Own operational EHS metrics, KPI reporting and dashboards.
• Analyse trends and drive continual improvement.
• Develop safety culture improvements, utilizing tools / techniques available.
• Build culture that ensures no unacceptable risk exists & escalation / reporting is inherent.
• Approve operational EHS procedures and corrective action plans.

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent; Chartered IOSH desirable.

• Leadership experience in manufacturing/COMAH environments.

• Success measured through compliance, audit performance, EHS culture, KPI delivery and leadership effectiveness.