HSE Manager

Why Greencore?

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better. We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties. Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, with recent expansion and investment making this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

What you'll be doing:

• As a key member of the site leadership team, provide build site management systems, develop improvement strategy, and plans for the site, establish site governance and performance metrics and provide professional support, coaching and guidance to other site leadership team members and their teams on all operational health, safety and environment matters.
• Develop, manage and embed effective and consistent implementation of legal HS&E policies and procedures, across the site, to enable compliance and continuous improvement.
• Ensure alignment with Group standards and processes and work with all people onsite to ensure HSE processes are live.
• Provide legal and technical guidance, particularly to leaders and supervisors.
• Drive, create and support the implementation initiatives to embed controls to mitigate risks arising from new/changing HSE legislation.
• Through internal stakeholder engagement, design, develop, implement and manage programmes that grow the HSE brand, using technical knowledge and expertise to propose and develop a variety of initiatives that support culture maturity and improve behaviours that underpin site management and performance metrics.
• Develop and deliver the Health, Safety and Environment strategy plan and roadmap to improve Health, Safety and Environment performance across all reactive and proactive metrics.
• Establish and design local arrangements to deliver requirements for group reporting and governance.
• Create systems and educate site teams to ensure effective investigation of all incidents.
• Provide direction and coaching to develop site's HSE capability.
• Grow functional capability and expertise within the HSE team and colleagues on sites, to maximise performance and potential.
• Co-ordinate and manage local stakeholder relationships (EA, HSE, Customers, auditors, community).
• Ensure that legal statute is followed and applied correctly so that HSE incidents are managed and reported to the enforcing authorities.
• Lead and manage enforcement visits, external audits, customer visits and successful completion.
• Lead the Health, Safety and Environment location's audit programmes to ensure compliance with agreed standards and recommend areas for improvement.
• Assess needs, plan for improvement, and manage Security and security teams on site to improve site security arrangements.

What we're looking for:

• National / Professional qualification (preferably to degree level) in H&S Management.
• Proven experience in H&S management ideally gained in a manufacturing environment.
• Practitioner member of IEMA (PIEMA) or working towards with environmental qualifications.
• Demonstrable experience of continual technical development including current HSE legislation.
• Additional knowledge of Occupational Health, Security Management.
• Great soft skills to build momentum and passion on a goal. Influencing and motivating stakeholders at all levels of the site.
• Ability to be an effective and key member of the site leadership team.

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

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• Car allowance.
• Annual target bonus.
• Medical Insurance.
• Holidays.
• Pension up to 8% matched.
• Life insurance up to 4x salary.
• Company share save scheme.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.
• Enhanced parenthood benefits.

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