Health Safety and Environmental Manager

HSE Manager – Forest Gate

From breakfast to midnight snack, Hovis® has been the heart of UK homes for generations with love in every loaf. Our rich heritage and delicious loaves of bread and bakery products are as good today as they've always been. We're proud to have over 133 years of baking experience producing some of the nation's favourite and fastest selling bakery goods. So loved in fact, Hovis® products are ranked either number one or number two in bread loaves categories in all regions of the UK and Northern Ireland (1)!

Now, as we continue our story, we're looking for talented, dedicated and innovative people to join our exceptional Hovis® team. You'll be joining an expert, trusted and empowered team of 2,800+ people who champion our iconic and much-loved brand, delivering the best quality range of Hovis® bakery goods to happy consumers. We have some exciting times ahead as we continue to innovate and work hard to strengthen our brand, remaining a great bakery Company for years to come.

So, what’s it all about?

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 Forest Gate 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.

Here at Hovis®, 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 Hovis® Ltd and legislative Health and Safety requirements.
• Ownership of risk assessments and overall quality of safety output.
• Coordination of Health, Safety and Environmental activities for Forest Gate, 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)

Benefits baked in

We pride ourselves on the benefits we offer our Hovis® family. We continually review what rewards and benefits we provide, ensuring they reflect our core values. When we talk about Reward, we mean all the things you'll get in return for your contribution to our success.

All colleagues can choose from a wide range of benefits in addition to salaries, based on their individual needs. We offer:

• Competitive annual leave entitlement and flexibility where possible to create a healthy work-life balance and recharge your batteries
• Generous long service awards and recognise outstanding colleague contributions through our recognition scheme
• Three levels of pension scheme (so you can choose which works best for you now!)
• A healthcare scheme that can be tailored to your needs
• Access to the Aviva DigiCare+ Workplace App which includes; 'at home' Annual Health Check, Digital GP consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Medical Opinions and much more
• Enhanced annual leave and maternity / paternity leave (and flexibility where possible to suit your needs)
• Free on-site parking
• Access to funded physiotherapy sessions
• Wellbeing support and campaigns to help you stay active and healthy, be financially prepared, and support your mental well-being.
• A benefits platform (Hovis® Choice) where all colleagues can access:
• A variety of savings and cashback offers on day-to-day living.
• Eyecare vouchers.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Hovis® 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.

Source: (1) Nielsen. Total Coverage, excl. Discounters, by region, 52 w/e 15/06/24