Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety Manager

About Us:

Established in 1942, Eriez is a global leader in separation technologies. Our commitment to innovation has positioned us as a driving market force in several key technology areas, including magnetic separation, flotation, metal detection, and material handling equipment. Headquartered in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA, Eriez designs, manufactures, and markets on six continents through 12 wholly-owned international subsidiaries and an extensive sales representative network.

About the Role:

The Quality, Environment, Health & Safety (QEHS) Manager is the senior functional leader for quality, environmental compliance, occupational health and safety at Eriez Magnetics Europe Ltd. As a member of the Leadership Team, the postholder will translate business strategy into a practical, risk-based QEHS roadmap that protects people and the environment, assures product and process quality, strengthens customer confidence and enables profitable, sustainable growth.

Reporting to the Managing Director, the role provides independent professional advice, constructive challenge and visible leadership across manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, office, field-service and contractor activities. The postholder owns the integrated management system and ensures that legal, regulatory, customer and group requirements are embedded in everyday operations and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Leadership, Strategy & Governance

• Act as a full member of the Leadership Team, contributing beyond the QEHS function to business planning, investment decisions, capacity, productivity, people capability and organisational risk.
• Develop and deliver a three-year QEHS strategy and annual operating plan with clear priorities, owners, milestones, resources and measurable outcomes.
• Advise the Managing Director and Leadership Team on legal duties, material risks, emerging regulation, assurance results and the adequacy of controls.
• Champion visible leadership, fair accountability, consultation and a learning culture across all levels of the business.
• Own the QEHS budget and business cases for risk reduction, compliance, sustainability and improvement projects.
• Provide timely escalation of significant incidents, non-compliance, enforcement contact or risk exposure, and coordinate appropriate executive response.

2. Integrated Management Systems & Assurance

• Own, maintain and continuously improve the integrated management system, aligned as appropriate to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 principles and certification requirements.
• Set the audit programme and lead internal, customer, certification, insurer and regulatory audits; ensure findings are prioritised, owned, verified and closed on time.
• Maintain controlled policies, procedures, records, legal registers, compliance evaluations and document-retention arrangements.
• Lead management review, ensuring performance, risks, opportunities, objectives, audit outcomes, resources and improvement actions are evaluated by leadership.
• Apply risk-based thinking and management of change to new products, equipment, layouts, materials, processes, projects and organisational changes.

3. Quality Leadership

• Define the site quality strategy, objectives and controls from enquiry and design through procurement, manufacture, inspection, test, dispatch, installation and after-sales support.
• Improve right-first-time performance, cost of poor quality, rework, scrap, warranty and customer complaint outcomes using structured problem solving and preventive action.
• Lead non-conformance, root cause analysis and corrective action processes, using methods such as 5 Why, fishbone, 8D, Pareto and mistake-proofing.
• Ensure inspection, measurement, test and calibration arrangements are suitable, controlled and traceable.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Sales and Service to strengthen design reviews, specifications, quality plans, acceptance criteria and lessons learned.
• Develop supplier quality assurance, supplier approval, performance monitoring and improvement with Procurement and Operations.

4. Health, Safety & Occupational Health

• Ensure compliance with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and applicable UK regulations, approved codes of practice and guidance.
• Lead proportionate risk assessment and safe systems of work, including machinery safety, PUWER, LOLER, COSHH, DSEAR, manual handling, work at height, lifting, electrical safety, confined spaces, noise, vibration, LEV, asbestos, legionella and workplace transport.
• Establish effective permit-to-work and contractor-control systems, including review of RAMS and monitoring of work on site.
• Lead incident, near-miss and hazard reporting, investigation, RIDDOR assessment, root cause analysis, action tracking and cross-functional learning.
• Coordinate emergency preparedness, fire safety, first aid, evacuation, spill response, drills and business-continuity interfaces.
• Coordinate occupational health surveillance, health-risk management and referrals while maintaining appropriate confidentiality.
• Ensure employees, contractors and visitors receive suitable induction, competence assessment, training, toolbox talks and role-specific instruction.

5. Environmental Management & Sustainability

• Ensure compliance with environmental permits, consents, waste duty of care, producer-responsibility obligations and other applicable environmental legislation.
• Maintain the aspects-and-impacts assessment, compliance obligations register and operational controls for emissions, discharges, chemicals, waste, energy and nuisance prevention.
• Set and monitor practical objectives for waste reduction, recycling, energy and water efficiency, responsible purchasing, spill prevention and carbon-footprint improvement.
• Provide environmental input to product, process, facility and capital decisions, recognising Eriez technologies' contribution to recycling, resource recovery and more efficient processing.
• Maintain effective relationships with Natural Resources Wales, local authorities, waste contractors, utilities and other relevant stakeholders.
• Lead environmental incident response, investigation, reporting and remediation.

6. Performance, People & Continuous Improvement

• Establish a balanced monthly scorecard covering leading and lagging indicators for quality, environment, health and safety; identify trends and present recommendations to the Leadership Team.
• Chair QEHS governance forums and ensure effective employee consultation through safety representatives, committees, briefings and improvement activity.

Essential Criteria:

• Substantial progressive experience leading quality, environmental and health & safety systems in a manufacturing, engineering or industrial environment.
• Demonstrable experience advising directors or senior leadership and influencing operational decisions.
• NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety, or equivalent recognised qualification.
• Environmental management qualification, such as IEMA Foundation Certificate or equivalent practical competence.
• Qualified lead auditor or substantial audit leadership experience for ISO 9001; practical working knowledge of ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management-system requirements.
• Strong working knowledge of UK health, safety and environmental law, incident reporting and regulatory liaison.
• Experience of quality assurance, non-conformance, customer complaints, calibration, supplier quality and structured root cause analysis.
• Experience developing risk assessments, safe systems of work, contractor controls, permits and emergency arrangements.
• Ability to convert complex legal, technical and operational information into clear priorities and practical controls.
• Strong analytical, report-writing, presentation, facilitation and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively.
• Competence with Microsoft 365 and data analysis, including the ability to build meaningful performance dashboards.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required.

Desirable Criteria:

• NEBOSH Diploma, NVQ Level 6, degree or equivalent higher-level occupational safety qualification.
• Practitioner membership of IEMA and/or professional membership of IOSH at TechIOSH level or above.
• ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001 lead auditor qualification.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or comparable continuous-improvement qualification and applied experience.
• Experience of machinery safety, DSEAR, confined spaces, LEV, occupational hygiene, facilities compliance and capital projects.
• Experience across multi-site, international or matrix organisations and collaboration with global functional teams.
• Environmental permitting, trade effluent, waste, producer responsibility, sustainability or carbon-management experience.

• Annual salary of £60,000
• Private Medical Insurance, subject to service
• Income Protection, subject to service
• Life assurance
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme with matched employer contributions of up to 6%
• 26 days annual leave, rising to 30 days with service
• Tech scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted retail vouchers