Health & Safety Officer

Jonathan Lee Group; Worcester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

Jonathan Lee Group is seeking an experienced Health & Safety Officer for a growing food manufacturing site in Worcester. The role focuses on influencing people, improving systems, and delivering practical results in a fast-moving environment to drive a zero-accident culture and strengthen environmental compliance.

You will lead safety policy, training, and environmental responsibilities, ensuring audit-ready records and regulatory adherence.

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing safety leadership and practical risk reduction.
• NEBOSH qualification or equivalent required for practical safety leadership.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills with stakeholders at all levels.
• Attention to detail with data analysis and reporting in safety metrics.
• Solid understanding of ISO 14001 environmental management.

Responsibilities

• Review and embed site safety policy and safety plan aligned with Group standards and HSE legislation.
• Maintain health, safety and environmental documentation, permits, and committee records.
• Lead environmental duties such as water treatment oversight, performance monitoring, investigations, and improvement actions.
• Own training planning with Training Department to ensure regulatory and food safety training is audit-ready.
• Ensure safety systems are operational, including fire evacuation, and maintain team coverage (fire wardens, first aiders, ammonia team).
• Develop safe working practices through communication, coaching, audits, KPIs, and engagement with production teams.
• Oversee environmental practices and drive environmental standards.

Skills

Safety leadership

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Training coordination

Communication skills

Education

NEBOSH qualification or equivalent

Job description

A growing food manufacturer are seeking an experienced Health & Safety Officer role is a stand out opportunity for a safety professional who enjoys influencing people, improving systems, and delivering practical results in a fast-moving manufacturing environment. As the Health & Safety Officer, you will help drive a zero-accident culture, strengthen environmental compliance, and support wellbeing initiatives across the site.

Salary £40,000 to £50,000 plus Benefits

What You Will Do:

• Review, maintain, and help embed the site safety policy and safety plan to ensure it stays aligned with Group standards and HSE legislation.
• Keep health, safety, and environmental documentation accurate and up to date, including permits and committee meeting organisation.
• Lead environmental responsibilities such as managing the water treatment programme, monitoring performance, investigating deviations, and tracking improvement actions.
• Own training planning support in partnership with the Training Department, ensuring regulatory and food safety training is identified and records are audit-ready.
• Ensure safety systems are fully operational, including review and testing of key arrangements such as fire evacuation, plus maintaining the required team coverage (fire wardens, first aiders, and ammonia team members).
• Help develop safe working practices through clear communication, coaching, audits, KPIs, and engagement with production teams and stakeholders.
• Oversee environmental practices and drive environmental standards.

What You Will Bring:

• Proven experience in an HSE role, ideally within manufacturing and, where possible, the food industry.
• Nebosh (or an equivalent qualification) demonstrating a strong foundation in practical safety leadership.
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to coach, engage, and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong attention to detail, comfort with data analysis and reporting, and a results-driven mindset.
• Strong understanding of ISO 14001 standards.

As a Health & Safety Officer, the impact is immediate and meaningful: this role supports effective adoption of safety plans, strengthens compliance, and helps ensure associates, contractors, and visitors can work with confidence. By promoting safety awareness through site communications and continuous improvement activity, the Health & Safety Officer helps the business protect people and performance, while reinforcing a culture of shared responsibility across the wider operation.

Location:

Based at the Worcester with an occasional need to support wider activities as required.