Regional Health & Safety Manager - North West & Cumbria

Morrisons Jobs; Bradford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retail chain is seeking a Regional Health & Safety Manager to oversee safety and compliance across its stores from Manchester to Carlisle. This pivotal role involves auditing, training, and ensuring legal standards are met while you travel extensively within your region. Ideal candidates should have a NEBOSH diploma and strong experience in health & safety management. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, along with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

15% colleague discount

Generous holiday entitlement

Company pension contributions

Flexible benefits package

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Health & Safety, Food Safety & Trading Standards legislation.
• Experience in food safety and trading standards.
• Strong reporting and data manipulation skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety of customers and colleagues in retail environments.
• Manage audits and improvement plans across multiple stores.
• Attend store meetings and build relationships with management.

Skills

NEBOSH diploma / Member of relevant professional organisation

Post graduate experience

Knowledge of Health & Safety

Auditing experience in Health & Safety

Understanding of HACCP

Customer focused with a positive, 'can do' attitude

Great communicator

Job description

We've got a fantastic opportunity for a Regional Health & Safety Manager (North West, Manchester & Cumbria) to join our field based retail team & for the right candidate we're offering a very competitive industry salary.

You’ll be travelling between our Retail stores in Manchester, up to Carlisle, across to Southport & everywhere in between. This role will play a pivotal role in upholding safety and legality and supporting our Supermarkets. The successful candidate will be a subject matter expert in Health & Safety, with an understanding of the other disciplines Food Safety, & Trading Standards. Supporting Retail Senior / Regional Management they will relish in a role where they have overall responsibility for Safe & Legal, and will work to ensure the safety of our customers and colleagues as well as legality of our Brand.

A typical week in this role looks like...

Your home will be your base location but you’ll spend most of your time supporting stores. Mondays are a big report & meeting day where you’ll engage and deliver key updates. You will manage your own diary to ensure business critical activities are managed.

Your week will be driven by the business needs and will include visiting 1-2 stores a day supporting improvement plans, attending meetings, building relationships, conducting audits, setting the Safe & Legal culture and upskilling / coaching colleagues & managers. Depending on location these may require you to stay overnight in a hotel.

Being one of the Health & Safety experts in the team you’ll support your peers and they will support you in Food Safety & Trading Standards expertise.

• Provide a Safe & Legal management service for Retail supermarkets, support in Logistics may be required occasionally.
• Proactively attend regional and store meetings, build engagement with the senior teams & share data trends, working with the teams to agree suitable solutions.
• Manage / coordinate activity where serious safety or legality concerns have been identified and work with stores and sites to demonstrably improve standards
• Work with stakeholders to manage Enforcement activity, arrange for any necessary support, disseminate information and liaise with Enforcement Officers to reach a satisfactory conclusion
• Provide a reactive service for serious food safety, trading standards and health & safety issues and incidents
• Oversee fire safety standards throughout region including undertaking fire and temp FRA risk assessments (training will be provided).
• Support the central teams by providing timely information and advice
• Use a partnership approach in order to coach Regional Managers, Store / Site Managers and colleagues in the required safe and legal standards / general good practice
• Build strong relationships with the retail management teams in order to be recognised as the main point of contact for all technical queries
• Build and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Pest Controller) to effectively promote safety and legality

About you

We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has :

• NEBOSH diploma / Member of relevant professional organisation and undergoing CPD
• Post graduate experience
• Knowledge of Health & Safety, Food Safety & Trading Standards legislation.
• Auditing experience in Health & Safety
• Understanding of HACCP
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of catering, retail or manufacturing in Health & safety, knowledge of Food Safety & trading Standards.
• An appreciation of the microbiological safety and quality aspects of high risk products
• A good understanding of health & safety, food safety, trading standards quality / management systems
• Knowledge of Retail end to end operations
• Customer focussed with a positive, 'can do' attitude
• Great communicator & reporting / data manipulating skills

About us

Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.

We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you...

Benefits

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Company pension contributions
• Perks with over 850 retailers
• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

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Reward & Benefits

We’ve highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive. Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you’ll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information.

• Rewarding success

  We believe success should be rewarded. So, from a simple thank you to our well-deserved recognition awards, we’ll show you how much we value you. We care for our colleagues. It’s how we keep hold of the best talent.

• Pay

  Morrisons wouldn’t be what it is without our amazing colleagues, which is why we offer competitive salaries to ensure we attract and retain the best.

• Colleague discounts

  We operate one of the most generous colleague discount schemes in food retail, and currently offer two discount cards, one for you and one for your family or friend. You will be eligible for a 15% discount on all eligible purchases and your friend or family will be eligible up to 10% discount.

• Holidays

  We know how important it is to take time off to relax and unwind. So, to help you achieve a healthy work / life balance, you’ll enjoy at least 28 days of holiday a year pro rata (including public holidays). Your holiday will increase depending on your length of service, too.

• Pension

  We have a competitive pension scheme that all our colleagues can join.

• Life assurance

  In case the worst should happen, we offer a Life Assurance Scheme, more commonly known as a ‘Death in Service’ benefit. All our colleagues are entitled to this benefit from their first day of permanent employment with us, subject to eligibility rules.

• Money off

  Not only will you enjoy 15% off your Morrisons shopping, you’ll have access to discount and cashback offers from over 1,500 retailers including everything from fashion and holidays to utilities and electronics. All of our sites offer subsidised meals too.

• Flexible benefits

  We offer a range of flexible, voluntary and salary sacrifice benefits that can help you save on your tax and National Insurance. These include :

  • Holiday buy scheme
  • Payroll giving
  • Healthcare cash plan

    Our exclusive health care cash plan, provided by Sovereign Health Care, offers colleagues a helping hand with everyday health care costs. It pays tax free cash back on a range of everyday health expenses including glasses, contact lenses, dental treatment, prescription charges, physiotherapy and much more. Cover is offered at a differents levels to suit your needs, and up to 4 children are covered at no extra cost! We’re pleased to be able extend the offer to colleagues' partners. Terms and conditions apply.

  • Wellbeing with Vita Health

    At Morrisons we care about our colleagues’ wellbeing, and we work with a number of organisations to provide information, advice and support to colleagues and their families.

    Our wellbeing partner Vita Health, offers free and confidential information, advice and support for all our colleagues and households 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, on all wellbeing matters including mental and physical health. They also provide a management support helpline Monday to Friday.

  • Aviva Digital GP and wellbeing

    We provide colleagues with free access to Aviva’s Digital GP and Aviva Wellbeing app services. Colleagues can book can book unlimited video consultations with an NHS-registered, private GP. To help colleagues when they need it most, It’s a 24 hour service. Colleague’s children are also covered up to age 16.

  • Addiction treatment

    We’re working with the team at the UK Addiction Treatment Group to support the wellbeing of our colleagues when it comes to addiction and behavioural disorders.

  • Salary finance

    We’ve partnered with Salary Finance to provide all colleagues with access to simple, useful financial education, as well as access to loans at competitive and affordable rates, repaid directly from pay.

  • Family Friendly benefits

    Maternity and Adoption Pay : Full pay for the first 26 weeks of maternity and adoption leave.

  • Paternity Leave : Up to 4 weeks of paternity leave, allowing flexibility within 52 weeks of the birth or placement.
  • Neonatal Leave : An additional week of leave for every week the baby spends in neonatal care, up to the original due date, with a maximum of 12 weeks.
  • Fertility Leave : Up to five days of paid leave per cycle for prospective mothers undergoing treatment, and up to two days of paid leave for partners

Plan your journey

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