At SI Group, we aspire for all employees to live and work to their full potential. We foster a unique environment where each employee is empowered to create value for our business with a commitment to safety and compliance. We promote personal and professional success that aligns with productivity and extraordinary results. Become a Catalyst for Change and help ignite impossible.
The Role:
We’re looking for an experienced and proactive EHS Specialist to join our team. This key role is focused on protecting the health and safety of our people, ensuring environmental compliance, and supporting our commitment to operational excellence.
You’ll work closely with the Health & Safety Manager and Quality & Environment Manager to drive compliance with UK regulations, maintain ISO standards, and foster a strong, proactive safety culture. This is a hands-on role where you’ll engage with employees on the shop floor, lead investigations, and champion continuous improvement across health, safety, and environmental performance.
How You Will Make an Impact:
· Provide strong leadership for all manufacturing activities, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operations around the clock.
· Champion compliance with COMAH, EHS, and regulatory requirements, embedding a safety-first culture.
· Deliver the manufacturing plan in accordance with SOPs and customer requirements.
· Work closely with maintenance teams to ensure equipment readiness and minimise downtime.
· Lead incident investigations, perform root cause analysis, and implement sustainable corrective actions.
· Manage budgets, actively identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.
· Drive site-wide continuous improvement and apply lean manufacturing principles to optimise processes.
· Coach, mentor, and develop employees, building skills and engagement across operations.
· Report manufacturing performance and key metrics to the Site Director and wider leadership team.
Creating Extraordinary Starts With:
· Bachelor’s degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline.
· 5+ years’ experience managing operations within chemical or process manufacturing.
· Proven experience leading teams in a chemical manufacturing or high-hazard environment.
· Strong track record on an Upper Tier COMAH site or equivalent high-hazard facility.
· Excellent communication skills, able to engage and motivate employees at all levels.
· Ability to provide steady, decisive leadership during challenging or emergency situations.
· Skilled at setting clear objectives and aligning operations with site and business strategy.
· Strong analytical skills focused on implementing sustainable, long-term solutions.
· Experience driving measurable improvements in safety, reliability, and cost performance.
· Deep understanding of EHS and COMAH requirements for Upper Tier sites.
· Demonstrated success embedding lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives.
· Proven ability to deliver against safety, quality, and cost targets in a 24/7, 365-day manufacturing environment.
What We Value:
We strive for all employees to nurture physical, mental and emotional health both personally and professionally. Our commitment to health and wellness centres around prevention, early detection and embracing a healthy lifestyle. Some offerings may vary by role or country, but may include:
· Physical Health benefits including healthcare packages and vision care subsidies.
· Financial Wellness opportunities including life assurance and enhanced employer pension contributions.
· Wellbeing benefits including additional holiday entitlement, flexible and hybrid working opportunities, access to mental health support, various optional social activities, and fruit available on site.
· Progression opportunities including access to learning and development programmes that will empower you to grow both personally and professionally.
Belonging at SI Group
At SI Group, we strive for all employees to perform to their fullest potential. We create an environment where diversity is embraced, voices are heard, boundaries are pushed, and value is created.
We celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion as a driving force toward making the impossible possible, and we’re committed to ensuring all employees embrace it.
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