Senior HSE Business Partner
Remote with Travel
Are you passionate about building world-class safety cultures and driving meaningful change?
At DS Smith Packaging, we’re 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 you’ll partner with senior leaders, influence strategy, and embed HSER excellence across multiple manufacturing sites—all while championing continuous improvement and sustainability.
What you’ll 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 we’re looking for
You’re an experienced HSER professional who thrives in fast-paced manufacturing environments and enjoys influencing at all levels.
You’ll 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.
You’ll 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 products. We 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 65,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation, manufacturing, 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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Skills Required
- Proven experience driving HSER performance across multi-site operations
- Strong knowledge of UK health & safety legislation, risk and environmental compliance
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent Level 6
- Track record of delivering continuous improvement, audits and incident investigations
- Excellent communication and analytical skills
- Confidence to engage, coach and challenge senior stakeholders
- Professional body membership
- Environmental or sustainability qualifications
DS Smith Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about DS Smith and has not been reviewed or approved by DS Smith.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered okay to good across many roles, with some plants indicating competitive or above‑market hourly rates for operators and similar positions. This supports a broadly fair perception of base pay even as experiences vary by site.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. offerings include day‑one medical/vision and dental, employer HSA contributions, and 100% company‑paid life and short/long‑term disability, alongside an EAP. Some role descriptions also highlight mental‑health and fertility options.
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Retirement Support — Packages commonly reference a 401(k) with company match and, in some locations, pension eligibility or company‑funded retirement contributions. This positions retirement benefits as a meaningful component of total rewards.
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What We Do
DS Smith provides innovative packaging solutions, paper products and recycling services with a commitment to sustainability and a circular economy. Our core purpose is to Redefine Packaging for a Changing World, and our expert teams work closely with like-minded partners to incorporate renewable resources for products that minimize our environmental impact, reduce complexity and increase profitability through supply chain optimization
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