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We are growing our H&S Team with an additional member! Are you passionate about driving sustainability, environmental, and workplace health and safety? Elevate your career here at Refresco! You will be an integral part of carrying out the sustainability agenda, supporting the Senior leadership teams to drive their strategy in an environment that is state of the art. We are starting to ramp up our sustainability agenda so this opportunity is a chance to shape our future and own the success.

Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor (HSE) – Bridgwater, Refresco

Competitive salary, 10% annual bonus, a good company pension scheme, life assurance, enhanced holiday entitlement plus the option to buy additional days.

What to expect as a HSE Advisor at Refresco:

We are looking for a passionate HSE Advisor with drive for keeping people safe and driving engagement across the HSE programme. As part of the team, you will be expected to promote a high-performance safety culture and deliver risk reduction across the manufacturing operations. Reporting to the site Factory Manager you will provide support to the site leadership team to ensure effective management of the HSE Management System. To drive a consistent approach across all HSE activities on the Refresco site whilst working with all departments to ensure compliance. You will drive local ownership and progress for the site and be supported by the central functions.  You will be required to compile compliance reports and liaise with regulators such as the Environmental Agency.

Key Responsibilities of the role:

Working to maintain the requirements set out in the Company HSE Management System, in accordance to site requirements and group standardised documents.
Work collaboratively with site PLT and UK Head of Health, Safety and Environment to ensure group consistency in the delivery of the HSE improvement agenda.
Technical support, advice and guidance to Site Area managers and any other personnel on any HSE related matters
Promote RADAR scheme and other proactive HSE activities.
Liaise with plant HR Business Partner on Occupational Health matters.  

Providing support, assistance and guidance to Departments on:

Risk assessment programmes
HSE audit and inspection programmes
In The Development of Standard Operating Procedures
Incident investigations and training of this to other staff
Change management  

Responsibility for:

HSE consultation and communication
HSE performance management
HSE Objectives
HSE Audit schedules
Emergency Preparedness
HSE non-conformances and close out
PPE requirements
Benchmark system management and statistics  

Engage with site and report on HSE KPI’s including:

Accident statistics
Environmental Permit Annual Returns
Environmental KPI’s  

About you:

Ideally, you will have experience of working in a busy manufacturing and engineering environment with 2+ years as a HSE Advisor.

Up to date knowledge of UK HSE legislation and its practical application
NEBOSH Certificate in Health and Safety as a minimum
Good Microsoft packages experience
Proven analytical and problem-solving skills  

What’s in it for you?

Competitive pay
10% Annual bonus
Life assurance
Enhanced holiday allowance
Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes flexible benefits
State-of-the-art facility with lots of variety  

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. (url removed).

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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