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 13,300 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 FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Here at Wisbech, we have a team of 450 colleagues and manufacture premium chilled ready to cook meals for major retailers such as Asda and Co-op.

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 the adherence to all relevant health, safety and environment legislation and agreed internal standards
• Planning and assistance to ensure of all sites risk assessments and safe systems of work and 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 with 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 understood and applied
• Support the recording and successful management of all emergency evacuation exercises, ensuring procedures are followed and practiced, adhering with 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 and 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

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Desired: 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
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

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