EHS Manager

Main Purpose of the Position❗:
Reporting to the Plant Manager the HS&E Manager jobholder is responsible for the effective running of the plant HS&E department to ensure that the plant meets all of its company and legislative obligations. The jobholder will act as a central coordination for environmental and health & safety activity, including management systems and is accountable for rolling out company-wide environmental and health & safety initiatives.   You will work closely with the senior leadership team to deliver the highest quality standards, whilst promoting a positive safety culture and ensuring safety on-site

All plant shop floor personnel have a dotted line into the HS&E Manager regarding health and safety and environmental issues

Key Objectives📋:
Health & Safety🦺
•    Ensure the plant is compliant with all H&S, company and legislative requirements, via company policies, procedures and systems and external Health & Safety Regulations ensuring the Plant remains compliant.
•    Promote safe working practices and be a role model within the plant for this subject 
•    To stay abreast of environmental and health & safety legislation and create robust management systems to proactively ensure the plant complies with such legislation
•    Ensure plant management are aware and informed of legislative requirements and that they are translated into actions and included in the management system
•    Responsible for developing, integrating and maintaining environmental and health & safety management systems across all plant personnel, visitors, contractors and temps, etc. To ensure compliance with all requirements
•    In conjunction with HR, ensuring that ALL employees and/or temps receive suitable environmental and health & safety training, including inductions to site
•    Develop and progress the site annual safety plan, environmental management programme and FSPP.
•    Develop and maintain a risk assessment programme across the site
•    Responsible and accountable for operating within plant health & safety budget and environmental budget targets
•    Ensure relevant corrective action is taken, as required, for all equipment and operational problems/potential problems to maintain and improve the EH&S operation
•    Participate in the behavioural based safety programme, train employees and monitor data.
•    Timely accident investigation and reporting to all relevant internal/external parties and to the Plant Management team and highlight necessary corrective actions
•    Review all health, safety & environment and fire incidents and keep the Plant Manager informed
•    Maintain and develop the site accreditation status with external bodies for environmental and health & safety activities
•    Liaising with HR for identification and management of health issues as they arise to ensure that our employees are not subjected to unnecessary risks
•    Ensure that adequate arrangements exist to cover the absence of personnel with key environmental and health & safety responsibilities
•    Co-coordinating with all personnel to actively seek and follow-up on their suggestions for the purpose of environmental, fire and health & safety continuous improvement
•    Ensure that all employees fully understand their individual obligations – at all times
•    Co-ordinate and carry out Health & Safety, environmental and fire audits in compliance with the audit program and relevant ISO standards.
•    Ensure that all necessary environmental records are generated and maintained
•    Collate records and disseminate information on Company and Corporate health, safety & environment and fire matters especially relative to prevention of incidents
•    Participate in the management review process
•    Lead multi-disciplined health, safety & environment meetings in order to review health, safety & environment status and assign responsibilities
•    Liaise with regulatory authorities and ensure that their requirements are dealt with efficiently and as appropriate liaise with senior management involved
•    Flexibility to non-normal situations is expected
•    Ad hoc project work as required
•    Carry out all instructions from the Plant Manager with regards to health & safety and the management thereof.
•    Environmental
•    Manage all topics related to Environmental legislation in the IMS system within the plant including
•    The relationship with the Environmental Authorities (DEFRA).
•    Ensure all legal compliance and plant systems are kept up to date
•    Manage all Environmental audits against the relevant standard and follow-up of any audit issues.
•    Manage the Environmental meetings to include any actions.
•    Establishing and implementation of procedures.
•    Energy & Sustainability
•    Manage all plant energy reduction programs.
•    Manage the Rugby Plant’s “Big Six” and GGI Index programs. 
•    Promote benchmarking and using best practices and ensure benchmarking activities are implemented.
•    Ensure all required reports are produced in a timely manner.
•    Prepare and supervise periodical reviews of the sustainability program. 
•    Analyse the consumption of energy and utilities in the plant. 
•    Co-operate with the local Plant Team and Technical Centre Bonn with relation to energy and environment issues.
•    Develop working methods in order to maximize the effectiveness of BPE sustainability program.
•    Generate Energy Reports & Assessments to reduce Energy costs and identify improvement opportunities 

Scope of Position:
•   Budgets Responsible for:     Plant Health & Safety and Environmental budget💰.

•   Contacts within BPE:      Rugby Plant Management team, Director H&S/ EMS & other Swiss Toller  contacts 🤩

•   External Contacts:          Ensure excellent co-operation with the Swiss Principal and all Limited  🫵              

Risk Distributors as defined in service level agreements. Various external agencies including environmental agencies, local schools, colleges, businesses                                     

Professional Requirements:
•   Qualifications🎓:        H&S Qualification with engineering background, ideally with engineering or food technology-based degree

•   Languages🗣️:            Fluency in English

•   Computer Skills💻:    Competent in MS Office applications, ideally with SAP and QA systems including Microsoft Packages, SAP, Ena-blon, Analyse, Prisma, Win CC, SharePoint and Infinity.

•   Previous Job / Project Experience🙌:    Complete Production/ Technical knowledge of a high speed manufacturing environment.

About Ardagh Metal Packaging

Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) is a leading global supplier of sustainable and infinitely recyclable metal beverage cans to brand owners globally. An operating business of sustainable packaging business Ardagh Group, AMP is a leading industry player across Europe, North America and Brazil and with innovative production capabilities. AMP operates 23 metal beverage can production facilities in nine countries, employing more than 6,000 people with sales of approximately $4.9bn in 2024. A partner of choice for beverage companies, AMP is known for its outstanding quality and customer service and is the only pure-play metal beverage can producer of scale in the market today.

Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP), 76%-owned by Ardagh Group is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

About Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group is a global supplier of sustainable, infinitely recyclable, metal and glass packaging for brand owners around the world. The consistent pursuit of market-leading innovation, quality and customer service, backed by investment in our people and processes, underpins everything we do. We remain focused on continuous improvement in all aspects of our business to deliver long-term, sustainable success for our stakeholders.

Ardagh Group also holds a 42% interest in Trivium Packaging, a leading supplier of sustainable metal packaging to the food & specialty and personal care markets. Ardagh operates 59 metal and glass production facilities in 16 countries, employing approximately 19,000 people with sales of approximately $9.1bn. The future we’re creating for Ardagh is built around our four Core Values of Inclusion, Trust, Teamwork and Excellence. We offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for talented and creative people. If you have ambition and want to make an impact with your career, come and join our team - you’ll enjoy the journey!