At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead safety, health, and environment initiatives across multiple manufacturing sites.
- Company: Join a leading food production company with a commitment to safety and sustainability.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, pension contributions, life insurance, and exclusive employee discounts.
- Other info: Flexible working with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on workplace safety and environmental practices in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma and significant SHE leadership experience required.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 55000 £ per year.
Salary: Competitive salary
Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contribution, Life insurance up to 4x salary
Location: Flexible across the Pizza Bakery and Desserts Sector, supporting our sites at Aston (CW5 8DL), Barton-upon-Humber (DN18 5RT), Crewe (CW1 6UA) and Leeds (Midland Rd, LS10 2RJ). Regular travel between sites will be required as part of this role.
Ways of Working: Site based
Hours of work: Monday – Friday / 08:30 – 17:00
Contract Type: Permanent
What You’ll Be Doing
As SHE Cluster Lead, you will provide leadership across a defined cluster of manufacturing sites, ensuring the effective deployment of the Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) strategy and standards. Working closely with site leadership teams, SHE professionals, and the Centre of Excellence (CoE), you will drive a proactive SHE culture, deliver continuous improvement initiatives, and ensure compliance with all relevant legislation and Group standards. This is a highly visible leadership role where you’ll influence operational performance, develop SHE capability across multiple sites, and champion best practice sharing throughout the cluster.
Role Accountabilities:
- Lead the delivery of the SHE Pillar across your cluster, ensuring alignment with Group and sector SHE strategies.
- Partner with site leadership teams to develop and implement robust SHE improvement plans.
- Drive the consistent implementation of SHE standards and governance across all sites.
- Monitor legislative changes and provide expert guidance to ensure compliance and best practice.
- Lead critical risk programmes and continuous improvement initiatives across the cluster.
- Oversee incident investigations, ensuring robust root cause analysis, corrective actions and learning opportunities are embedded.
- Conduct governance reviews and audits, ensuring actions are completed in a timely manner.
- Promote cross-site collaboration and sharing of best practices.
- Act as the key liaison between sites and the SHE Centre of Excellence.
- Coach, mentor and develop Site SHE Managers and Advisors, building capability and succession plans.
- Drive a high engagement SHE culture where colleagues take ownership for safety, health and environmental performance.
- Support the implementation of security and compliance requirements across all cluster sites.
What We’re Looking For:
- Candidates must hold a NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma (or equivalent qualification) to be considered for this position.
- Practitioner Member of IEMA (PIEMA) or working towards environmental qualifications.
- Significant Health, Safety and Environmental leadership experience within manufacturing, FMCG, food production or a similarly fast‑paced environment.
- Proven experience leading multi‑site SHE programmes and critical risk initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of health, safety, environmental and occupational health legislation.
- Excellent coaching, mentoring and people leadership skills.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience working with regulators, auditors and enforcement bodies.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret SHE performance data and identify trends.
- Experience developing and embedding high engagement SHE cultures.
- Ability to balance strategic leadership with operational delivery across multiple sites.
What You’ll Get In Return:
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Competitive matched pension contribution
- 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
SHE Cluster Lead employer: Greencore
As a SHE Cluster Lead at Greencore, you will join a dynamic and supportive work environment that prioritises safety, health, and environmental excellence across multiple manufacturing sites. With competitive salaries, generous benefits including a matched pension contribution and life insurance, as well as opportunities for professional growth through coaching and mentoring, Greencore fosters a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. The flexible working arrangements and commitment to employee wellbeing make this an exceptional place to build a meaningful career in the food production sector.
