Healthy, Safety & Environment Manager (12 month FTC)

About McCain. At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to Smiles, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.

About the role. Are you a passionate Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) professional ready to drive world-class standards in a fast-paced manufacturing environment? Do you thrive on creating safer, smarter, and more sustainable workplaces? If so, this is your opportunity to lead from the front. We’re on the lookout for an experienced Site HSE Manager to take ownership of our safety culture, compliance, and continuous improvement efforts. You’ll play a critical role as part of the Senior Leadership Team, ensuring we operate not only within legal standards – but above them. This is a 12 month fixed term contract.

Accountabilities:

• Championing a safety-first culture by embedding best practices across the site.
• Leading the development and implementation of safety and environmental policies in line with ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 standards.
• Conducting daily site inspections, risk assessments, and implementing preventative measures.
• Leading training sessions, toolbox talks, and site inductions to empower teams with safety awareness.
• Managing incident investigations, reporting and root cause analysis to drive improvement.
• Keeping us up to date with legislation, audits, and statutory obligations.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders and external bodies including auditors, insurers, and regulatory authorities.
• Ensuring all third parties on site – contractors, agency staff, visitors – meet our stringent safety criteria.
• Playing a key role in emergency planning and evacuation procedures.
• Driving environmental compliance in line with our site’s environmental permit.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Experience in a senior HSE management role within manufacturing (food sector experience is a plus).
• NEBOSH General Certificate and NEBOSH National Diploma – both essential.
• A Professional Environmental Qualification.
• Proven knowledge of ISO 45001 (essential) and ISO 14001, HACCP, and DuPont safety methodology (desirable).
• Strong communication, influencing, and negotiation skills – you’ll be working cross-functionally and leading from the front.
• Excellent IT skills, especially in MS Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Location. You’ll be based at our Wombourne plant in Staffordshire. And together our small, but perfectly formed team of over 110 colleagues produce our famous (and well loved) potato Smiles as well as our pre-baked Jacket Spuds.

The benefits of working for McCain. For working hard, you’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:

• An achievable yearly bonus based on personal performance.
• An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay.
• Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Optional health cash plan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.