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Environmental Health & Safety Manager
- ID
- 15526
- Location
- Galway, Ireland
- Role Type
- Permanent
- Contact
- Dee Curley
Environmental Health & Safety Manager
EHS Manager
Our leading regulated manufacturer based in Co. Galway is seeking an experienced EHS Manager to lead their environmental, health and safety function. This is a high impact role with real scope you will own the EHS agenda, lead a team, and drive a safety culture that is already on a strong upward trajectory.
Reporting to the General Manager, you will operate at both strategic and operational level, influencing at senior leadership level while remaining close to the team and the floor.
What You Will Do
- Lead and develop a team of 4 EHS professionals, providing strong coaching, direction and support
- Own EHS compliance across all sites, audits, risk management, ISO 14001 EMS, DGSA programme
- Drive continued improvement in behavioural safety and EHS culture across the organisation
- Manage effluent controls, chemical safety and explosion/hazard risk programmes
- Oversee the Occupational Health function, embedding operational ownership across the business
- Lead emergency response, contractor safety and companywide EHS training programmes
- Represent the organisation at regulatory and statutory audits, HSA, Uisce Éireann, Repak, insurers
- Report EHS KPIs to the Board and Senior Leadership team
- Contribute to the organisation's ESG and sustainability agenda
What You Will Bring
- 8+ years' EHS experience, with at least 4–5 years in a pharmaceutical or GMP manufacturing environment
- Demonstrated experience leading transformational EHS and cultural change
- Strong technical depth in chemical/hazard risk, explosion risk legislation and effluent/wastewater compliance
- Proven people management capability, a developer of teams, not just a task manager
- Experience managing HSA audits and delivering remediation plans
- Excellent influencing and communication skills, this role requires cross-functional buy-in at all levels
- Level 8 degree in Health & Safety or Environmental discipline; Occupational Health qualification an advantage
Please contact Dee 0867902191 dee@hero.ie for a confidential discussion on this role
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