Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

Position: Health, Safety & Environment Advisor
At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations'​ worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 150 years.

Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention. It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes.

Title:

HSE Advisor

Location:

Tuscany Park, Wakefield

Hours:

Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £34,000 to £40,000 (dependant on experience)

Are you a passionate and experienced Health and Safety Advisor, ready for your next challenge?  Do you have excellent coaching and influencing skills and experience of improving safety culture?  Are you ready to put all of that into action to help promote a culture of responsibility and accountability? If you do, you could be the essential ingredient to join our HSE Team!

The Recipe   You'll provide support to the site Health, Safety and Environment Manager across all functions in order to meet the site’s legal responsibilities and to coordinate and facilitate activities to contribute to the site’s performance in all aspects of Health and Safety and Environment.

The Role   The role supports the rollout of the National Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) strategy by ensuring that best‑practice standards are developed, embedded and maintained on site in full compliance with statutory requirements and company policy. It involves working closely with the HSE Manager to provide accurate, timely and legally sound business‑focused advice to line managers across all aspects of health, safety and environmental management.

A key part of the role is coaching managers and employees to build a culture of responsibility and accountability, reinforcing procedures that contribute to the site’s continuous improvement programme. Collaboration with site operational trainers is essential to develop and maintain an effective training plan that identifies and meets the HSE training needs of all personnel, ensuring alignment with the HSE Management System.

The role also includes providing relevant monitoring data and trend analysis to the HSE Manager to support reporting against site HSE KPIs, as well as understanding, monitoring and maintaining the performance of both the bakery and depot against the requirements of the Warburtons HSE Management System. Acting as a business partner, the role drives standards across the site, ensuring all teams understand their responsibilities and raising awareness of emerging HSE issues to strengthen overall site performance.

    Essential Ingredients

Experience of working in a manufacturing or distribution environment
Demonstrable interest in Health, Safety and Environment
General knowledge of all aspects of Health, Safety and Environment
Good knowledge of Health Safety and Environment legislation
NEBOSH Cert and IEMA preferrable (but not a requirement)
Willing to attain NEBOSH Cert (candidates without this qualification must be willing to study towards it)
Technician Membership of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) (Not essential but a bonus if you have this)
Knowledge of ISO
14001, OHSAS
18001 management systems would be an advantage
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written skills.
Excellent IT skills with PowerPoint & Excel
Excellent relationship builder- building rapport at all levels.
Promote safety as an enabler not a blocker      Extra Dough   At last and by no means least 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, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
Award winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%
Life assurance
Products you will love along with deals…