Health, Safety, Environmental & Quality Manager

We are currently recruiting a HSEQ Manager to join our team based in Swatragh but with overall responsibility for our operations throughout the UK & Ireland.

As the HSEQ manager within BP McKeefry you will be working within a highly dynamic business and will be responsible for ensuring that the Health, Safety and environmental requirements of our staff and operations are met as well as enabling the business to deliver a high-quality and service for our customers. You will work proactively with directors, managers, and staff to maintain and further improve programmes established for the management of Health and Safety throughout the Company.

Over four decades we have evolved from a small family business transporting animal foodstuffs to one of the leading transport, cleaning, recycling and surveying companies in Europe. That hasn’t happened by accident. We’re still as passionate about meeting the needs of our customers as the day we started. That’s how we’ve grown. We discovered that the only way to guarantee our customers’ expectations were met was to control every step of the operation, so everything we do, we do ourselves.

If you join our team there is a range of benefits that you will receive. We continually invest in our staff during their time with us. External certified training is funded by BP McKeefry and regular in-house assessments help ensure the highest levels of competency. Combine the training you will receive with our company pension scheme and a life assurance scheme you can be sure that BP McKeefry invests in our staff for the long term.

Personnel Specification

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Certificate (Essential)

• NEBOSH Diploma or similar (e.g., NVQ level 5 qualification) (Desirable)

• Relevant third level qualification (Desirable)

• Member of IOSH, IEMA or similar (Desirable)

Experience

• At least 3 years’ experience in a senior Health & Safety role (Essential)

• Experience of developing, implementing, and managing externally certified HSEQ management systems (Essential)

• Experience in developing and delivering HSEQ training (Desirable)

• Experience in assisting with development of risk assessments (Desirable)

Skills and Knowledge

• Good knowledge of current HS&E legislation (Essential)

• Ability to investigate to determine root causes and develop appropriate actions (Essential)

• Ability to manage actions through to completion (Essential)

• Excellent interpersonal skills (Essential)

Competencies

The post holder should possess the following core competencies –

•  Leadership skills.  The ability to demonstrate leadership in a variety of situations and in a variety of ways appropriate in different circumstances This will include demonstrating both “individual” leadership and “team” leadership to inspire, guide and motivate individuals and teams.

• Communication skills.  Includes both written and oral communication, and the ability to communicate with a wide variety of people in a wide variety of circumstances, including public presentations. Verbal clarity.

• I.T. Skills.  Computer literate with sound knowledge of computerised systems.

• Numeracy and literacy skills.  Good numeracy and literacy – attention to detail.

• Results Orientation.  The desire to get things done well and the ability to set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seek ways of improving performance. 

• Planning and Organising.  The ability to decide on courses of action, ensuring that the resources required to implement the action will be available and scheduling the programme of work required to achieve a defined end-result. 

• Self-Management.  An ability to manage and organise oneself to take responsibility, be personally responsible and achieve results. To manage personal stress and work levels in order to maintain overall performance under pressure.

Employee Benefits 

We offer our employees a range of benefits including:

• Free life assurance scheme.

• Workplace pension scheme.

• Successful candidates will have the opportunity for training and career development along with a very attractive rate of pay linked to ability and experience and not age.