Senior HSER Business Partner

Senior HSE Business Partner

Remote with Travel

Are you passionate about building world-class safety cultures and driving meaningful change

At DS Smith Packaging were looking for a dynamic Senior HSE Business Partner to play a pivotal role in elevating Health Safety Environment and Risk standards across our UK & Ireland operations.

This is a high-impact highly visible role where youll partner with senior leaders influence strategy and embed HSER excellence across multiple manufacturing sitesall while championing continuous improvement and sustainability.

What youll be doing

As a Senior HSE Business Partner you will:

• Lead and influence a positive HSER culture across multiple UK & Ireland sites
• Partner with senior leaders to embed safety risk and environmental excellence into daily operations
• Coach and challenge leaders and managers to take ownership of HSER performance
• Drive consistency and best practice across site-based HSER teams
• Monitor and improve performance through audits analysis and data-driven insights
• Lead incident investigations and ensure robust follow-up and learning
• Develop and implement effective policies systems and training programmes
• Collaborate externally with regulators industry bodies and partners
• Support key initiatives around sustainability compliance and risk management

What were looking for

Youre an experienced HSER professional who thrives in fast-paced manufacturing environments and enjoys influencing at all levels.

Youll bring:

• Proven experience driving HSER performance across multi-site operations
• Strong knowledge of UK health & safety legislation risk and environmental compliance
• The confidence to engage coach and challenge senior stakeholders
• A track record of delivering continuous improvement audits and investigations
• Excellent communication and analytical skills with the ability to simplify complex topics
• A proactive commercially aware mindset with a passion for safety and operational excellence

Qualifications:

• NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent Level 6) essential
• Professional body membership preferred
• Environmental/sustainability qualifications highly beneficial

This role offers the chance to work closely with senior leaders and operational teams to improve how Health Safety Environment and Risk is managed across a complex multi-site operation.

Youll have the scope to influence standards support cultural development and contribute to making our workplaces safer and more sustainable.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Qualifying Sick Pay scheme
• Pension scheme & Life insurance
• Share Save scheme
• Income Protection
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP Occupational Health & free Flu vaccine
• Cycle to Work and shopping discounts

We are DS Smith together with International Paper we are a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based believe a better more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. We employ more than 65000 colleagues in North America and Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) who are experts in innovationmanufacturing design sales sustainability supply chain and much more. Together with our customers we make the world safer and more productive one sustainable packaging solution at a time. Become part of a world-leading organisation and do your best work with us!

Our people come from diverse backgrounds bring different perspectives ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply even those not meeting all criteria.

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