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 every day 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.
What you'll be doing
As 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 aligned with Centre of Excellence and business requirements, to enable compliance and continuous improvement. Translate SHE pillar requirements into practical, risk based site action plans, integrated into site routines and operational processes. Work with all people on site to ensure HSE processes are live, understood and owned at all levels
- 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 implemented in capex projects
- Lead the Health, Safety and Environment location’s audit programmes, including critical risk audits, maturity audits and audits against management system procedures 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
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.
- 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
If this sounds like you join us, 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
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- 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 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.
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