Health, Safety & Environment Manager

Job Description

Salary up to £60,000 depending on experienceAre you a Health and Safety Environment Manager working in the fascinating world of food manufacturing and looking for your next opportunityBenefits that include:

• A slice of the annual profits
• Award winning pension scheme
• Opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Health and wellbeing support, including access to free onsite physio & wellbeing initiatives
• Plus many more

The RecipeTo provide leadership to the South West operation (Bakery and 3 depots) by ensuring that we deliver the Company Health Safety and Environment strategy and ensure that , through engagement, safety is our number one priority.The Role

• Plan and support the roll out of the National Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) strategy, ensuring that HSE best practice standards are developed and maintained on site that are compliant with statutory and company policy.
• HSE budget holder.
• Provide accurate, timely, legally correct assistance and sensible business led advice to line managers on site in all aspects of the Health, Safety and the Environment.
• Foster a positive HSE culture by ensuring the accountability for HSE is accepted by managers and employees. Acting as a coach and facilitator for line managers and providing appropriate tools and techniques.
• Identify HSE learning needs for the site (bakery and depots) and provide cost-effective solutions to meet these needs, through liaison with the functional leaders.
• Identify areas for improvement as a result of risk assessments, audits, accidents and incidents and ensure that these are followed to completion to ensure continuous improvement and learning.
• Understand, monitor and maintain the sites (bakery and depots) performance against the requirements of the Warburtons HSE management system. Recommend improvements to the HSE management system, taking part in company-wide improvement projects where required.
• Lead in conjunction with line management, initiatives designed to improve commitment at all levels, to continuously improve standards of HSE to benefit site performance.
• A member of the site leadership team fuelled by energy and commitment, championing change to drive the west country operation forward aligned to business direction.
• Lead and develop the HS&E team
• Demonstrate a total business mindset, collaborating skilfully and prioritising the needs of Warburtons as a whole above the interests of your own area.

Essential Ingredients

• Minimum of 2 years experience in a Health, Safety and Environment role, ideally in an FMCG organisation
• General knowledge of all aspects of Health, Safety and Environment with a good level of expertise in handling audit from internal and external parties
• Good knowledge of Health Safety and Environment legislation
• Minimum qualification NEBOSH certificate
• NEBOSH diploma or equivalent (or working towards)
• Chartered Membership (or working towards) of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
• IEMA Environmental Foundation certificate, for permitted sites IEMA Associate Certificate
• Knowledge of ISO14001, OHSAS18001 management systems
• Excellent communication skills: articulate, influential; persuasive; impactful verbal and written skills.
• Excellent relationship builder- establishing credibility and building rapport with both internal and external contacts at all levels.
• Problem solver: able to find a safe and compliant resolution to issues and promote safety as an enabler not a blocker
• Decisive: able to make decisions, in a timely manner, and be accountable.

Extra DoughAt last and by no means yeast you will want to know what your breads worth.

• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, well give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
• Award winning pension scheme
• Private medical insurance and life assurance
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service

About usAs the UKs No. 1 Bakery Brand we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a fifth-generation family, with the sixth generation starting to join the company, supplying over 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 15 depots, producinga range of over 70 products including gluten and wheat free. Our family of 5,000 colleagues throughout the UK, have recognised us as a Sunday Times Top 25 Best Big Companies to work for. Family and values are what makes us different, and we are a proud bunch,join us and you too could be proud to be Warburtons.We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspectwhich makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.