Overview
* EHS Management system and Process/ Technical Safety Management into site day to day operations, EHS Culture and functional awareness.
* Develop, implement, and continuously improve the EHS strategy in alignment with corporate goals and regulatory requirements.
* Lead EHS risk management across all functions, ensuring proactive identification, assessment, and mitigation of potential hazards.
* Collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders to integrate EHS into all business planning and decision-making processes.
* Monitor and report on key EHS metrics and use data-driven insights to influence decision-making and policy development.
* Drive sustainability, climate risk, and environmental responsibility initiatives in partnership with internal stakeholders
* Stakeholder management for compliance including training and awareness.
* Prioritise and manage resources for chemical, EHS, Utilities and process safety compliance.
* Ensure highly competent Management Structures in place for EHS and Process Safety.
* As a key member of the site leadership team - influencing the broader site agenda and ensuring consistency of EHS approach/ best practice development across the Operations agenda including Process Safety awareness. Management responsibility and understanding is critical to regulatory compliance.
* Personal ownership for the safety, health, and welfare of our employee’s dependent contractors and improvement of safety results to define and comply with internal procedures/policies.
* Working with the site leadership team to identify EHS and Major Accident Hazard risk across the site's operations and implement effective controls.
* Ensuring all management systems for health, safety and environment are fully implemented, risks and trends identified, and all appropriate action taken. EHS Standard Owner and SME for assigned standards.
* Ensure effective ownership and management of myEHS onsite.
* Ensuring compliance to health, safety and environment legislation, ensuring appropriate communications with the HSA, EPA, IAA and PGCS EHS Director as appropriate.
* Year on year improvement in EH&S output KPI's to achieve those of a Sustainable EH&S Culture i.e. in terms of Lost time Injury rate, PepsiCo Reportable Injury rate, Recon metrics. Development of Process Safety KPIs for Upper Tier COMAH site.
* Ensuring all documentation relating to Health and Safety in the workplace is kept up to date and that notification and reporting procedures are maintained.
* Evaluation of what Health and Safety training is required and ensuring that appropriate courses are available to meet this training requirement.
* Organisation of Safety Committees as part of the company consultation process.
* Maintaining adequate sources of information on health and safety topics for employee/employer consultation.
* Investigation of accidents/near misses when required.
* Working proactively with Occupational Health adviser/HR in areas of absence and accident management/rehabilitation programmes, health surveillance and wellness.
* Play an active role in the PGCS EH&S Management meetings, creating strategy and devising the tactical steps required to achieve plant and Sector targets.
* Improving compliance for relevant internal and external audit standards, e.g. PepsiCo GEHSMS Global Environmental Health and Safety Management system.
* Ensure adequate evacuation and response arrangements are in place for fire and emergency situations for both internal and external scenarios. Continue to build site ERT and ICT programmes.
* Liaise with Corporate Communications on strategy for external communications e.g. external agencies, neighbours, local community.
* Drive waste stream management activities for the site.
* Liaise with Manufacturing, Engineering and Maintenance teams to ensure site meets requirements of Wastewater treatment licence.
* Plays a key role in site Green teams, resource conservation (Sustainability & pep+) energy, waste & water management on site including continuous improvement measures.
* Carrigaline is the only Upper Tier COMAH site in the network. There is a requirement for EHS Manager to be the face of the company dealing with external regulatory bodies on a regular basis; there is strong credibility required of the individual. There is criticality in the expertise, leadership maturity, communications and credibility around the role and hence in level of role is critical.
* Compliance of all safety reports issued to external authorities.
* Implementation of a Process Safety Management system.
* Development of a Process Safety Culture onsite.
* Process Safety training and awareness.
* Implementation of Significant modification assessment process with regard to management of change control on site.
* External Emergency Plan.
* Liasion with External Emergency Services on External Emergency Plan.
* Liaise with Process Safety Engineer to build Process Safety Management system.
* Implementation of Oil/Chemical Spill Response Plan.
* Liasion with Corporate Communications to develop comms plan for impacted neighbours and local community.
* Prioritise and manage resources for process safety compliance.
Responsibilities
* Oversight of all EHS activities of the largest PGCS site in terms of revenue & 2nd largest in terms of liquid vols.
* Lead Utilities team, covering Waste Water Treatment, Reverse Osmosis Water, Waste & all other site Utilities including direct reporting line for team of 6 frontline & 3 EHS professionals (2 x L7, 1 L6) & 1 contractor.
* COMAH Stewardship of the site ensuring compliance with all Upper-Tier COMAH regulatory directives utilising Management of Change processes to ensure full licence to operate
* Leading water efficiency agenda on-site, driving projects to deliver 2030 water reduction targets.
* Implementing Culture based safety (Courage to Care) agenda & providing inspirational leadership of the agenda.
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Occupational Health & Safety or related field.
* Minimum of 5-8 years’ experience in an EHS leadership role.
* Five years previous experience in a standalone & management safety role in a FMCG environment.
* 3+ years experience COMAH site and/or Process Safety Qualification.
* Knowledge of Environmental management systems for leadership and management.
* Knowledge and experience of Utilities Unit Operations desirable including WWTP and Purified Water.
* Demonstrable prior experience of leading and managing teams.
* Strong interpersonal, influencing and relationship management skills. Able to inspire and lead others without line management authority.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and motivate at all levels.
* Ability to guide and influence the agenda at all levels and to get all employees actively engaged in the EHS programme.
* Previous people management experience.
* Knowledge of legal/working requirements of Irish H&S at Work, COMAH directive as well as relevant and current Environmental legislation.
* Ability to coach and support others to ensure requirements understood/met in a pro-active style.
* Ability to carry out EHSMS audits as an internal auditor, coaching and mentoring auditees to develop their part of the programme.
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