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 around 13,600 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 FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Manton Wood, we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl.

Our Manton Wood site has a gym, restaurant with hot food and a staff shop available to all our colleagues.

What You’ll Be Doing 

As HSE Manager, you'll be 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. Needs to be a technical expert with detailed knowledge of HS&E law and its successful application 

• 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 business standards and processes and work with all people on site to ensure HSE processes are live
• Provide legal and technical guidance to all people on site, particularly the leaders and supervisors. Drive, create and support the implementation initiatives to embed controls to mitigate risks arising from new/changing HSE legislation. Detailed knowledge and skill to apply health, safety, environmental, security and occupation health law
• Through internal stakeholder engagement, design, develop and implement and manage programmes that grow the HSE brand, using technical knowledge and expertise propose and develop a variety of initiatives culture maturity and improve behaviours that underpin site management and performance metrics
• Develop and deliver the sites health, safety and environment strategy plan and roadmap to improve performance across all reactive and proactive metrics. Develop, implement and providing site insight, governance, data and key performance indicators to drive improvements and effective risk management. Establish and design local arrangement to deliver requirements for group reporting and governance
• Create systems and educate site teams to ensure effective investigation of all incidents. Have deep technical knowledge and experience to decide on the level detail and complexity of investigation, working knowledge of a variety of failure analysis models and tools. Implements and management of the incident recording system
• Using deep technical knowledge and application and managerial/soft skills provide direction and coaching to develop the site HSE capability. Grow functional capability and expertise within the HSE team and colleagues on site, to maximise performance and potential. Implement and lead committees involving representatives from all levels
• 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 reported to the enforcing authorities. Lead and manage enforcement visits, external audits, customer visits successful completion
• Using detailed technical knowledge of project management, and a large variety of standards (insurance, fire, security, machinery, chemical, biological etc) ensure that HSE matters are timely and correctly considered and implement in capex projects
• Lead the Health, Safety and Environment location’s audit programmes to ensure compliance with agreed standards and recommend areas for improvement
• Assess needs, plans for improvement, and manages security and security teams on site to improve site security arrangements. Ensure compliance with legal and customer requirements

What we’re looking for 

• Ideally educated to degree level or holds a relevant professional qualification in Health and Safety management
• Experienced in Health and Safety 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 Health and Safety legislation
• Additional knowledge of occupation health and security management is desirable
• Demonstrates good soft skills, working with others to build momentum and passion on a goal
• Demonstrates good influencing skills and has experience motivating stakeholders all levels
• Ability to be an effective and key member of the site leadership team

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

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
• Greencore Qualifications
• 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.

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