Job Introduction
Are you a rare character who wants to become part of a dynamic and growing company in the Scotch Whisky and Spirits category? We have an excellent opportunity for someone to join us as our Head of Health & Safety, to ensure that appropriate systems and processes are developed and implemented such that the WGS& businesses globally are fully compliant with all relevant Health & Safety legislation, and that the Group approach meets the wider business and industry sector requirements of best practice.
Main Responsibility
The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include;
- Refine, develop and implement the ongoing global approach for Occupational Safety and Process Safety, to ensure that the company meets and exceeds regulatory expectations and manages significant risk. Delivered through the evaluation of statistical data, trends and knowledge of corporate, industry and wider external good practice and developments in the field.
- Lead and develop both the Distilling and Packaging compliance programs that are required to meet the relevant safety, process safety, ISO and internal standards. Ensure that the external audit processes e.g. ISO are value adding activities providing process improvements by comparison with external business best practice.
- Establish uniform and consistent reporting mechanisms to evaluate effectiveness of the improvement plans and analyse the resulting performance. Analyse, prioritise and communicate this performance at relevant forums co creating action plans to drive improvements, which will be reported at WGS Senior Leadership Team, Operations and Executive Boards.
Our Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will be experienced in
Essential:
- Degree Qualified or equivalent as a minimum with an Engineering or Science background a distinct advantage
- Current understanding of safety legislation within UK and international setting
- Safety Qualified to at least NEBOSH diploma level
- Significant experience for detailed accident / incident investigation including reporting and corrective actions.
- Knowledge and Experience of ISO 9001, 45001, 14001, BRC, COMAH, DSEAR, ATEX and PSM
- Managing multiple sites and a large stakeholder group
- Experience of project management safety and construction safety
- Computer Literacy – word, excel, PowerPoint, Q-Pulse
Desirable:
- Environmental or energy engineering experience would be beneficial
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.
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