Overview
Environment, Health and Safety Lead – Rugeley
Job Title: Environment, Health & Safety Lead
Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK
Contract / Shift: Permanent, Monday – Friday with some flexibility for shift contact
The package includes a starting salary from £35,000 per year, discretionary performance related bonus a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including access to salary sacrifice EV scheme and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
This is a prominent role across our Rugeley and Fradley sites, where you’ll shape culture, embed leading indicators, and ensure safety is part of our identity. We’re a well-invested business, open to new ideas and practical technology that genuinely reduces risk. This is more than managing compliance!
The role
You’ll manage the SHEQ agenda across two busy manufacturing sites handling powdered animal nutritional products, ensuring robust compliance whilst facilitating our behaviour-led safety culture.
This is not a desk-bound role. You’ll be present on the shop floor, coaching teams, challenging constructively, recognising great behaviours, and partnering closely with operations and engineering leaders to deliver meaningful, lasting improvements.
What you’ll be doing
- You will be a visible safety leader across both sites and across all shifts
- Enhancing and tracking leading safety indicators and encouraging positive safety conversations
- Maintaining and improving SHEQ systems aligned to ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001
- Coaching leaders and colleagues to embed “safety as second nature”
- Ensuring reporting systems translate learnings into actions
- Investigate how technology and equipment can improve safety outcomes
What we’re looking for
- Demonstrated EHS leadership experience within manufacturing, logistics, or other industrial environments
- NEBOSH qualified with solid working knowledge of UK H&S legislation
- Experience refining and maintaining ISO-aligned management systems
- History of ensuring compliance and positively reinforcing safety culture
Ability to engage stakeholders at all levels, empathy, tenacity and attention to detail will be key personal traits.
Experience in powdered manufacturing, animal nutrition, or highly automated production environments is advantageous but not essential.
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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