Health & Safety Advisor

Greencore; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in the UK is seeking a Health and Safety Advisor to enhance operational Health, Safety, and Environment activities. This role requires a strong understanding of legislation and involves supporting teams to ensure compliance and promote a culture of safety. You will maintain health and safety systems, assist in risk assessments, and deliver necessary training. The position offers competitive salary and benefits, including matched pension and life insurance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in operational Health, Safety and Environment is essential.
• Up-to-date knowledge of Health, Safety and Environment legislation.
• Ability to engage and work closely with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and support on Health and Safety activities.
• Maintain Health, Safety and Environment systems and plans.
• Assist in risk assessments and safe systems of work.

Skills

NEBOSH qualification

Knowledge of Health, Safety and Environment legislation

Communication skills

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