EHS Manager

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Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World. It’s Better with Bakelite. EHS Manager Life in Barry: Barry is a vibrant seaside town located on the southern coast of Wales, just 9 miles from Cardiff, the Welsh capital. It offers a blend of natural beauty, historical charm, and modern conveniences, with several popular beaches, including the award-winning Whitmore Bay, making it a great spot for relaxation and outdoor activities.

The town also offers good local schools, friendly communities, and excellent transport links, including a direct rail connection to Cardiff and the M4 corridor.

Position Overview

Implement and maintain the site management policies at the Barry Site relating to Health and Safety, Environmental Strategy, Training and Security. Ensure on-going compliance with changing regulatory requirements and maintaining focus on safety as a first priority. Act as part of the site leadership team.

Job Responsibilities

Responsible for managing, developing, and auditing EHS systems, ensuring statutory compliance with relevant regulations, company policies, campaigns and standards and culture improvement. Effectively manages two-way communication between site and central EHS functions, ensuring alignment, timely reporting, strong stakeholder engagement, and the provision of proactive, high-quality EHS support in line with UK regulatory and organisational requirements.

Leads and continuously improves the ISO 14001 management system, ensuring full compliance, effective risk control, strong environmental performance, and integration into business operations. Leads and ensures full compliance with COMAH and Process Safety Management requirements by owning emergency planning, managing major hazard risks, coordinating regulatory engagement, site security and driving robust preparedness and response capability across the site.

Leading, implementing, and continuously improving EHS systems and programs at site level ensuring full compliance with UK regulations, corporate standards, and industry best practices. Design, implement, and continuously improve EHS programs through structured planning, risk based decision making, and effective management of incidents and crises.

Respond to, classify and investigate, and manage incidents to ensure immediate containment, identification and investigation of root causes, and prevention of recurrence. Develop and deliver effective training and communicate EHS expectations, risks, and requirements clearly across all levels of the organization ensuring employees are trained and competent in EHS requirements relevant to their roles.

Manage and optimise EHS Finances. Ensure compliance with Section 7 & 8 of the Health and Safety at Work Act. Liaise with community (CAP & Joint Sites meetings), and industry organisations (CIA & Responsible Care). Interact with DGSA to ensure the annual reporting and that the related activities of ADR regulations are met.

Communicate appropriately with the competent authorities (e.g. NRW/HSE/VoG etc...)

Education

& Experience Graduate in Chemistry/Engineering or significant and relevant EHS experience. Auditor training and experience. Proficient in the many software tools needed to effectively manage the EHS function, such as Gensuite. Experience in chemical processes specific to the site, including design, instrumentation and process control is desirable.

Able to manage budgets, plan costs and lead functional teams. Disclaimer : We are not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms/employment agencies for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails to an employee about this position. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee of the Company via email, the Internet or in any other form and/or method without a valid written search firm agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of the Company; no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by the Company as a result of the unsolicited referral or through other means.