Health & Safety Advisor

Greencore Group Lts; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food production company in Greater London is seeking a Health and Safety Advisor to enhance operational safety and compliance. You will guide teams on health and safety practices, ensure adherence to legislation, and manage relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have a NEBOSH qualification and experience in health and safety roles. This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of health, safety, and environmental legislation.
• Experience in operational Health, Safety, and Environment roles.
• Ability to engage and communicate effectively with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional guidance on health, safety, and environment activities.
• Maintain safety management systems and conduct risk assessments.
• Work with teams to ensure understanding of health and safety responsibilities.
• Manage stakeholder relationships regarding compliance and safety issues.

Skills

Health and Safety knowledge

Legislation compliance

Communication skills

Education

NEBOSH qualification

Job description

Why Greencore?

We're one of the UK's leading producers of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose : to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Bow, we have a team of around 800 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, platters, sub rolls and salads for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury's, Co-op, Asda, Morrisons and BP Wild Bean Café.

What you'll be doing

Reporting into the HSE Manager, as Health and Safety Advisor, you will provide professional guidance and hands on support to all functions within a location on operational Health, Safety and Environment activities ensuring improvement of health and safety systems and culture, developing local procedures and maintaining standards that align to business policy and standards.

• Develop and maintain the Health, Safety and Environment systems and SHEMS plans to ensure the adherence to all relevant health, safety and environment legislation and agreed internal standards
• Planning and assistance to ensure of all sites risk assessments and safe systems of work and completed, educated and contain the correct information to ensure adherence to site and business policy
• Maintain the sites management systems and processes including suitable and sufficient investigation of accidents as required to identify solutions and remedial actions along with management of the incident recording system to meet with statutory requirements, ensuring the reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences to meet statutory obligations
• Work closely with the HSE Manager to ensure consistency of standards across their site, working with local teams to proactively engage support to develop culture and ensure responsibilities and accountabilities understood and applied
• Support the recording and successful management of all emergency evacuation exercises, ensuring procedures are followed and practiced, adhering with agreed group and insurance standards
• Assist with the management of all stakeholder relationships (EA, HSE, Customers, Local community) to ensure that there are no compliance issues
• Ensure the delivery of Health, Safety and Environmental training to meet the location's learning and development plans and to support the Greencore Way principle of keeping people healthy and safe, working with the compliance training team to ensure all training needs and identified, suitable and conducted
• Ensure correct operation and data recorded of effluent treatment plants, data and environmental aspects and impacts with the engineering and operational teams

What we're looking for

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Desired : NEBOSH qualification
• Previous experience and exposure to operational Health, Safety and Environment is essential
• Up to date knowledge and practice of Health, Safety and Environment legislation
• Experience engaging, communicating and working closely with colleagues and leaders

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.