Health & Safety Manager
Job Title: Health & Safety Manager
Salary: Starting salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Location: This role will be based at HQ, Kilwaughter, Co. Antrim
Purpose: As Health & Safety Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring compliance, reducing risk, and embedding a strong safety culture across all sites. Working closely with site leadership and employees, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining health & safety policies, ensuring operational excellence in a high-risk, fast-paced environment.
You will be an ambitious, driven and hands-on individual who thrives in a demanding and dynamic environment, delivering best practice and excellence through coaching and mentoring your Business Partners.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Foster a “safety-first” mindset across all levels of the business to embed a strong health & safety culture, ensuring employees and leaders prioritise health and safety. Develop engaging safety training programs to upskill staff and promote behavioural safety.
- Develop and deliver safety training programs for employees at all levels. Promote proactive safety behaviours through engagement, toolbox talks, and leadership visibility.
- Act as a credible and hands-on leader, influencing operational teams to embed best practices. Lead continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring health & safety is a business enabler, not a blocker.
- Ensure full compliance with UK, Northern Ireland, and Ireland health & safety laws and regulations Maintain ISO to the highest standards.
- Management of the Health & Safety budget including capital expenditure investments.
- Identify and mitigate key risks associated with heavy plant manufacturing (e.g., machinery safety, lifting operations, working at height, noise, vibration, hazardous substances).
- Management of risk assessments ensuring they comply with relevant legislations and regulations whilst applicable to site operations and communicated to all relevant people.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with production, maintenance, and HR teams to align safety with productivity and health and wellbeing.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives, identifying innovative ways to enhance safety performance.
- Work collaboratively with production, maintenance, and HR to align safety with strategic goals.
- Maintain and evolve clear KPIs. Provide monthly updates to the board. Use data-driven insights to drive safety improvements and measure the effectiveness of initiatives.
- Lead accident and near-miss investigations, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Be an ambassador for the company values and at the forefront of a culture of continuous improvement.
- Take on any other duties as directed by the Operations Director.
Kilwaughter Minerals Limited
PERSON SPECIFICATION February 2025
Job Title: Health & Safety Manager
Criteria | Essential | Desirable |
Education |
| NEBOSH qualification in Fire Safety and Risk Assessment |
Experience |
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Skills | Demonstrated ability in influencing, coaching, communication, and time management Excellent organisational and follow-up skills; competent in problem solving, and decision making to support the business units Experience in Accident Investigation Proficient in using Microsoft Office applications Driving on-site Health & Safety initiatives and Continuous Improvement | |
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Personality:
- Ambitious & passionate about our brand, our reputation and our customers
- A creative thinker who can problem solve and drive continuous improvement
- Determined and driven by results whilst eager to work at pace
- Embrace and adapt well to change with a positive, can-do attitude
- An ambassador for our company values and someone who leads by example