Vacancies

Facilities H&S Manager

Job Introduction

 We are recruiting for a Facilities H&S Manager on a full time (40 hours), permanent contract to join our leadership team in the Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 area, supporting our nationwide team.

As Facilities H&S Manager, you will take full ownership of health & safety, facilities, cleaning services, contractor management, and service compliance across our factories and school estate. This is a critical leadership role, ensuring that our sites operate safely, compliantly, and efficiently while supporting uninterrupted production, logistics, and school services.

Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will play a key role in embedding best practice, strengthening governance, and driving continuous improvement across facilities management, contractor control, and health & safety systems.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities include:

Health & Safety Management 

• Lead and implement the Workplace Safety Management System (WSMS) across factories and support its implementation in schools.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable legislation, Compass and company standards, risk assessments, safe systems of work, permits, contractor control, incident reporting and corrective actions.
• Carry out H&S audits, daily site safety checks, and oversee safety validation, verification, and equipment safety inspections.
• Lead fire safety management including fire drills, warden training, emergency preparedness and support business continuity planning.
• Oversee chemical safety, PPE management, storage, and training across all sites.
• Lead or support incident, accident and near-miss investigations, identifying root causes and ensuring corrective actions are implemented and shared.

Risk Assessment & Governance

• Work closely with the Head of HSE to develop, review and maintain risk assessments and control measures for factories, schools, catering, cleaning, maintenance, and contractor activities.
• Ensure strong governance, record keeping and audit readiness across all HSE and facilities activities.

Facilities & Contractor Management

• Oversee the maintenance, repair, and statutory inspection of buildings, fabric, plant, equipment, and site services across three factories and the school estate.
• Manage planned preventative maintenance (PPM) schedules and reactive works to minimise operational disruption.
• Implement and manage Compass Contractor Management, including contractor approval, RAMS review, permits, supervision, and safe completion of works.
• Manage and oversee a wide portfolio of service contracts, including but not limited to refrigeration, waste, pest control, laundry, cleaning, ventilation, fire systems, electrical, plumbing, gas, drainage and fabric maintenance.

Cleaning & Hygiene Management 

• Take overall responsibility for cleaning services, including internal cleaning teams and external contractors across multiple sites.
• Lead, support and oversee the activities of internal cleaning staff across factory and other locations.
• Ensure appropriate training, audits, daily checks, holiday management, and performance standards are maintained.
• Oversee high-level cleaning contracts, hygiene monitoring systems, chemical management and cleaning equipment procurement and servicing.

School Support & Field Compliance

• Support WSMS implementation in schools, including site inspections, escalation processes, defect tracking and follow-up on hazards, incidents and maintenance issues.
• Provide expert support to local managers and school stakeholders to maintain safety and compliance standards.

Training & Competence

• Coordinate and support the delivery of training including forklift, first aid, fire warden, food safety and health & safety across sites and schools.
• Ensure managers and teams are competent and supported to maintain required standards locally.

Utilities, Waste & Environmental Controls

• Oversee utilities, waste contractors and site services, supporting safe operation and environmental compliance.
• Monitor contractor performance and service effectiveness.

Reporting & Stakeholder Management

• Produce KPI reports on accident rates, audit scores, action closeout, maintenance performance, contractor performance and key site risks.
• Work collaboratively with factory managers, regional and school managers, supervisors, landlords, contractors, enforcement bodies and senior leadership to resolve issues efficiently and effectively.

About You:

• 3–5 years’ proven experience in a Facilities, Health & Safety, HSE, or Operations Management role within a manufacturing, food, logistics, or operational environment
• Relevant qualifications in Health & Safety and/or Facilities Management (e.g. NEBOSH, IOSH, H&S Diploma, Facilities Management qualification, or equivalent).
• Strong working knowledge of health & safety legislation, contractor control, risk management and facilities compliance.
• Experienced people leader with the ability to manage internal teams and external contractors.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented and disciplined, with a strong focus on governance and compliance.
• Confident communicator, able to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Calm, resilient and decisive, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and urgent issues simultaneously.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with Operations, Production, Logistics, Quality and IT teams.

Some of the benefits we offer:

As well as a competitive salary, we also have a large range of other benefits, such as 

• Discounts on brands across the Island of Ireland (restaurants, high street stores, hotels, day out venues, gyms, golf courses and many more) 
• Flexible working to support work life balance 
• Free parking at the office 
• Career Pathways to support career progression and/or skills development 
• Learning & development programs available for personal and professional development & growth 
• Access to wellness programs to promote mental health and wellbeing of our colleagues 
• Employee Assistance Program to guide and support our employees 
• Exciting appreciation days

About Us: 

 Glanmore Foods is apart of the Compass Group, located in Blanchardstown, Dublin. At Compass Ireland, our people are our business. When you join the Compass Group you will be joining a supportive network of incredible individuals, each united by their passion for going the extra mile for the organisations we partner with. We are building a team who care about providing a great customer experience and want to grow and develop as we do. We are dedicated to investing in every colleague joining us and pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer; we celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all our colleagues. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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