HSE/Quality Manager
Walker Lovell ·www.walkerlovell.com
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Location: Barnsley- predominantly on site
Travel: Approximately one or two international site visits annually
Compensation: A package reflecting your experience and the scope of the role.
What’s in it for you?
Take the lead on safety, environmental performance and quality at an established manufacturing site. Build broader operational experience, with potential progression towards operations or plant leadership, subject to performance and suitable opportunities.
Package & Benefits
A package reflecting your experience and the scope of the role.
Collaboration with international colleagues through a global HSE programme
Why this business?
Join an established international manufacturer supplying essential products to recycling, waste management and industrial customers. With investment in manufacturing capabilities and operational improvement, the business offers scope to influence how the site develops its processes, working practices and product quality.
What you’ll be doing
Lead health, safety, environmental and quality activity, maintaining effective management systems and reducing operational risks.
Improve product quality through audits, root-cause investigations and corrective actions alongside production and engineering teams.
Coordinate colleagues, contractors and resources to turn agreed improvements into practical results, leading through influence without direct reports.
Contribute to the global HSE programme, sharing progress and learning with international colleagues, including teams in the US.
The expertise you’ll need
At least five years’ relevant plant or manufacturing experience, combining HSE responsibilities with quality assurance, quality control and management systems.
Practical experience of risk assessments, audits, incident investigations and continuous improvement.
A relevant health and safety qualification, alongside the ability to influence operational teams and follow actions through to completion.
Availability to work predominantly on site, travel internationally once or twice annually and accommodate occasional calls across US time zones.
Candidates from different manufacturing sectors are welcome; direct wire or polymer production experience is not essential.