Health & Safety Officer

22/04/21 Tipperary Neg

Permanent full-time

We have an exciting opportunity, for a H&S Officer, in a newly created position, with one of Ireland's fastest growing food companies.

Full-time, permanent position.

Salary: €35-40k (DOE)

Responsibilities:

• Ongoing development and implementation of improved Health and Safety practices, policies, and procedures.
• Enforce the effective operation of Safety and Health practices and policies in conjunction with the site managers.
• Develop SOPs for each job.
• Chair Site Safety meetings to update all business managers on developments at site level.
• Ensure all personnel are fully safety trained and competent for the roles.
• Review risk assessments on a regular basis.
• Implement Internal Audit processes at site level and measure performance.
• Safety report to be presented each month to the Operations Manager for discussion with the Site H&S Team.
• Set up regular unscheduled audits on sites. This will involve both individual audits and in the company of various personnel from the team.
• Enforce safety policies by identifying breaches and reporting the same to the Operations Manager and HR Manager.
• Liaise with the company insurers, HSA, and other outside agencies in relation to H&S matters.
• Environmental compliance, monitoring and reporting.
• Ensuring company and Origin Green targets are being met.
• Establish and embed waste management best practices into the culture and day-to-day activities.
• Report on weekly and monthly KPIs set out by site management.

Requirements:

• 3rd level qualification in Safety and Health/ IOSH qualification.
• Two plus years experience.
• Background in safety and health ideally food and/or manufacturing environments.
• Strong communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to work on your own initiative without immediate hands on support.
• Ability to identify continuous improvement initiatives and ability to challenge status quo.
• Strong IT skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office, Excel, Power Point and other common software tools.
• Experience in a training environment would be beneficial.

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Please apply by sending your CV to Laura Duffy at laura@qsp.ie or call for more information.