Health & Safety Advisor

Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life.

Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Bow, we have a team of around 800 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, platters, sub rolls and salads for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Asda, Morrisons and BP Wild Bean Café. At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

What you’ll be doing:

• Reporting into the HSE Manager, as Health and Safety Advisor, you will provide professional guidance and hands-on support to all functions within a location on operational Health, Safety and Environment activities ensuring improvement of health and safety systems and culture, developing local procedures and maintaining standards that align to business policy and standards.
• Develop and maintain the Health, Safety and Environment systems and SHEMS plans to ensure adherence to all relevant health, safety and environment legislation and agreed internal standards.
• Planning and assistance to ensure all sites risk assessments and safe systems of work are completed, educated and contain the correct information to ensure adherence to site and business policy.
• Maintain the sites management systems and processes including suitable and sufficient investigation of accidents as required to identify solutions and remedial actions along with management of the incident recording system to meet statutory requirements, ensuring the reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences to meet statutory obligations.
• Work closely with the HSE Manager to ensure consistency of standards across their site, working with local teams to proactively engage support to develop culture and ensure responsibilities and accountabilities are understood and applied.
• Support the recording and successful management of all emergency evacuation exercises, ensuring procedures are followed and practiced, adhering to agreed group and insurance standards.
• Assist with the management of all stakeholder relationships (EA, HSE, Customers, Local community) to ensure that there are no compliance issues.
• Ensure the delivery of Health, Safety and Environmental training to meet the location’s learning and development plans and to support the Greencore Way principle of keeping people healthy and safe, working with the compliance training team to ensure all training needs are identified, suitable and conducted.
• Ensure correct operation and data recorded of effluent treatment plants, data and environmental aspects and impacts with the engineering and operational teams.

What we’re looking for:

• NEBOSH qualification.
• Previous experience and exposure to operational Health, Safety and Environment is essential.
• Up to date knowledge and practice of Health, Safety and Environment legislation.
• Experience engaging, communicating and working closely with colleagues and leaders.

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

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• 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 parental leave and menopause policies.

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