Health & Safety and Environmental Manager

Our clients are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up their iconic and much-loved brand. They produce bread and bakery products created with goodness at the heart of each. They deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where they also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.

They are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Their success is a result of the hard work of their people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based at head office in High Wycombe. They are a values-led business and expect their colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

Do you live and breathe all things health and safety? We’re currently seeking a Health, Safety and Environmental Manager to join our fantastic team at our Forestgate site; supporting our manufacturing and logistics operations teams.

Reporting into the Site Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with and influence our teams, providing expert health and safety guidance and support. If you’re looking for a role where no two days are the same, and you enjoy working within a collaborative, friendly team, this is the role for you.

Key responsibilities

As Health Safety and Environmental Manager, you’ll be passionate about our people and enjoy building strong relationships with all our colleagues and their representatives, bringing a positive, encouraging and people-centric approach to your work. Cross functional collaboration will come naturally to you; you’ll work alongside your peers in the Senior Leadership Team to align and execute our Health and Safety strategy, championing change and the development of our teams.

You’ll be given the autonomy to drive the Health and Safety agenda; you’re encouraged to lead and develop all safety production activities, aiming for optimisation of assets.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Compliance with company and legislative Health and Safety requirements.
• Ownership of risk assessments and overall quality of safety output.
• Coordination of Health, Safety and Environmental activities for Forestgate, ensuring all targets are achieved in line with expectation.
• Provide an unbiased and transparent auditing function for site/company.
• Lead, develop and implement sustainable HS&E management programmes and provide the strategic architecture for HS&E that will ensure statutory accreditations are retained.
• Line management of our SHE Advisor

Do you have?

• IOSH and/or NEBOSH qualifications.
• Experience of accident prevention programme implementation.
• The ability to design and implement effective Health and Safety training ensuring impactful deployment in line with company Health and Safety strategy.
• Experience of Health and Safety change management
• Experience of working with Duty Holder Register; specifically DSEAR/PUWER
• Experience of ISO14001 or ISO18001
• Experience of working within a unionised environment (desirable)
• IEMA certification (desirable)

Why work for our client and their benefits:

Our clients understand the importance of looking after their colleagues, so they provide a variety of benefits in addition to salaries. The benefits they provide are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries

• There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.
• The benefits scheme offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes a Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving
• They offer enhanced annual leave and maternity/paternity leave, and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance
• They celebrate loyalty with generous long service and colleague recognition schemes
• They offer three levels of pensions

Our client values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.