Health & Safety Officer

Overview

Health & Safety Officer

• A globally recognised fresh produce business with a fully integrated supply chain from farming to distribution
• Operating across fresh fruit, fresh-cut, frozen, and value-added categories
• Supplying major UK retail and food service customers from a large, high-volume manufacturing site in Cambridgeshire
• 24/7 operational environment at the core of the UK supply chain

• Newly created, growth-driven hire to strengthen and formalise site Health & Safety
• Reporting into the Operations Manager with strong on-site visibility
• Hands-on, operational role with significant shop-floor presence
• Opportunity to bring structure and consistency to existing Health & Safety activity
• Focus on stabilising and embedding best practice before longer-term continuous improvement

• Reviewing and rewriting risk assessments across the site
• Identifying and closing compliance gaps
• Reviewing factory Health & Safety requirements and implementing improvements
• Conducting audits, inspections, and incident investigations
• Delivering training and supporting teams to embed safe working practices
• Developing emergency procedures and improving overall site readiness

• Experience in a hands-on Health & Safety role within manufacturing or food production
• Professional certifications such as NEBOSH, IOSH, or equivalent
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, 24/7 environment
• Confident engaging teams at all levels and influencing on the shop floor
• Pragmatic, proactive, and able to build structure where it doesn t yet exist

• Up to £50,000 + benefits
• Site-based role in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
• Core hours:
  Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm
• Flexibility required to engage with night shift teams when needed
• Non-unionised workforce

Please send your CV using the form on this page, quoting reference 19/17593/7. Confidentiality assured.

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