Health & Safety Manager

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a Health & Safety Manager to join our brand-new MRO Europe site in Tewkesbury an exciting opportunity to be part of the team right at the start of its journey.

You’ll play a key role in shaping and embedding a positive health and safety culture from day one, ensuring that our new site operates to the highest standards of safety, compliance, and well-being.

This role will be based at our newly created Ontic Tewkesbury site, but occasional travel between all our Gloucestershire sites should be expected.

Ontic is more than just a business we’re a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We’re committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Role:

Reporting directly to the Site Director, you'll be responsible for managing the risks across our Tewkesbury site, and you'll be working closely with the ROW H&S team in installing a strong safety management system for Ontic UK. You'll ensure that employers and workers comply with safety legislation and that safety policies and practices are adopted and adhered to.

You'll also plan, implement, monitor, and review protective and preventative safety measures.

As a health and safety manager, you'll need to:

• Work closely with contractors and site facilities team on all aspects of facility redevelopment.
• Ensure that all transferring products and recommissioned in a safe and compliant manner.
• Overseeing all processes and ensuring company compliance with HSE Legislation.
• Attending Site Specific Leadership meetings and site walks. 
• Writing site specific policies and procedures
• Implementation of a functional safety management system including site audits, general risk assessment process and control of contractors.
• Deliver proactive site wide HSE training – to observation reporting.
• Support day to day as main point of contact for Tewkesbury 
• Manage and support all Accident investigations across site. 
• Organise and manage the health and safety committee.
• Support Occupational Health rehabilitations and Manage Health surveillance referrals. 
• Record and monitor Site Safety KPIS. 
• Ensure the action tracker is worked through, and all actions are closed in a timely manner.
• Support PMO with bringing in new products and ensuring pragmatic approach taken with international equipment.

About you:

At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

You’ll bring strong IT skills, with confidence using Microsoft Office applications especially Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to inspire, coach, and lead others in health and safety, working closely with people across all areas of the business. You’ll need to be an excellent communicator who can adapt your approach to suit different audiences.

Ideally, you’ll have experience in manufacturing or engineering or have worked within the aerospace or aviation industry.

Knowledge of HP oils and air systems, safety guarding, and NDT radiation exposure would be an advantage, as would familiarity with DSEAR and high-voltage environments.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
• IOSH Managing Safely

Benefits 

At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance. 

Our benefits package highlights include: 

• Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time 
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees 
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers 

Best place to work 

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so: 

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback 
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic 

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!