HSE Coordinator

Job Title: HSE Coordinator
Location: Tarleton, Lancashire
Salary: 30,000 per annum
Industry: Food Manufacturing
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Are you passionate about health, safety, and the environment? Do you thrive in fast-paced manufacturing environments? We're looking for a HSE Coordinator to join our team at our busy food manufacturing facility in Tarleton.

About the Role:

As a HSE Coordinator, you will be responsible for supporting and promoting a positive health, safety, and environmental culture across the site. Reporting to the Site Manager, you will ensure all HSE policies and procedures are adhered to and help drive continuous improvements in safety performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare health and safety strategies and develop internal policies.
• Keep records of inspection findings and produce reports that suggest improvements.
• Record incidents and accidents and produce statistics for managers.
• Ensure training targets are met and maintained in accordance with current legislation
• Lead in-house training with managers and employees about Health & Safety issues/risks, and Food Safety.
• Liaise with department managers to analyse & identify staff training and development needs and deliver out training programmes to suit.
• Participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of the company induction programme for new employees and delivering mandatory training in order for them to carry out their duties.
• Identify and source training funding from various funding streams.
• Advise on a range of specialist areas i.e. fire regulations, hazardous substances, noise, safeguarding machinery and occupational diseases.
• Managing emergency procedures (i.e. fire alarm drills, administering first-aid) and organizing emergency teams such as first-aiders/fire marshals.
• Chair monthly Health & Safety Champions meetings.
• Offering general health & safety advice to all employees.
• SEDEX - Maintain a system for compliance in accordance with the Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) base code requirements.

Requirements:

• IOSH Managing Safely or a Level 3 Health & Safety qualification
• Previous experience in a manufacturing environment (food manufacturing preferred)
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Hands-on, proactive approach to safety management

In return for your commitment my client offers a stable and secure career for a technically motivated engineer. If you feel this is of interest, please send your CV directly to Thomas Barkes at or call for a confidential discussion on (phone number removed).