Director of Health & Safety

About Us

Finlays Solutions is a leading partner to the B2B beverage manufacturing industry, recognized for its deep expertise, strong industry relationships, and commitment to innovation. The company plays a central role in supporting beverage brands, flavor houses, private label partners, and manufacturers through high-quality products, technical capabilities, and collaborative problem-solving. With a strong presence in the ready-to-drink beverage market, Finlays Solutions focuses on identifying emerging opportunities, expanding into new market spaces, and delivering solutions that meet evolving customer and consumer needs.

Finlays Solutions operates with a strong commitment to its mission, values, ethics, and long‑term goals, ensuring that every initiative reflects the company’s dedication to integrity, partnership, and sustainable success.

Finlays Solutions operates with a strong commitment to its mission, values, ethics, and long‑term goals, ensuring that every initiative reflects the company’s dedication to integrity, partnership, and sustainable success.

The safety of our people, contractors, customers, and communities is Finlays’ highest priority.

The Director of Health & Safety, Finlays Solutions, leads occupational health, safety, and process safety across the Finlays Solutions business. Reporting to the COO of Finlays Solutions and working closely with the Global Head of Health & Safety, this role is accountable for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the Business Unit’s Health & Safety strategy. Additionally, the role will be responsible for managing, coaching, and developing the H&S team across the business.

As part of the Finlays Global Health & Safety leadership team, this role translates global strategy, standards, and governance into effective delivery within Finlays Solutions. The Global Head of Health & Safety establishes Finlays-wide direction; this role ensures that direction is implemented in a practical, risk‑based, and locally relevant way.

The role provides visible leadership and direction to embed Health & Safety into every aspect of the business, strengthening a culture where safety is recognized as both a core operational value and a business enabler.

The position leads delivery of global Health & Safety standards across Finlays Solutions, with particular emphasis on improving occupational health and safety performance and maintaining process safety management systems appropriate to the business’s operational risk profile.

The successful candidate will be a senior leader who can influence across cultures, functions, and geographies; build strong partnerships with operational teams; and support the organization’s 2030 Health & Safety ambitions, including sustained Recordable Injury and Tier 1 Process Safety Event rates below 0.40 and zero SIF events.

• Develop and lead the Finlays Solutions Health & Safety strategy in alignment with the Finlays Global Health & Safety vision and objectives.
• Influence the Finlays Solutions SLT to ensure Health & Safety considerations are integrated into business decision‑making.
• Translate global Health & Safety priorities into practical, effective business‑unit programs.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and constructive challenge to senior operational leaders on Health & Safety matters.
• Promote Health & Safety as an integral component of operational excellence, business performance, and sustainable growth.
• Own overall Health & Safety performance for Finlays Solutions, including delivery against agreed strategic objectives, leading indicators, and lagging performance measures.
• Build Health & Safety capability through leadership development, competency…