Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Improvement Lead

Shift:                 Monday to Friday, 8.30 - 5, must be flexible to work outside core hours         

Salary:               Competitive  

We have a new position for a Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Improvement Lead to join our site Health, Safety and Environmental Team at our Ultrapharm site. 

The HSE Improvement Lead will work across the site to deliver best-in-class Health, Safety and Environmental solutions and strategy in conjunction with the various Site Leadership Teams, HSE Business Partner and the Group Energy and Sustainability Manager.   

The role is to play a major part in building and embedding a culture to ensure that Finsbury Food Group is a safe place to work and visit and offers the chance to lead tactical and strategic deployment of HSE (and other) projects throughout the business. 

About the company

Ultrapharm is a dedicated Gluten Free bakery specialising in only Gluten Free products since 1993. The company’s unique approach to craft and baking creates premium gluten-free products with the flavour and taste of traditional bread. If you have special dietary needs or nutritional preferences, then our Pontypool bakery has you covered. Our products range from artisanal bread to our award-winning Hot cross buns and Mince pies for major retailers such as M&S and Waitrose. You’ll play a key role in providing customers with Celiac Disease or special dietary requirements products that are safe to eat!

Ultrapharm is also part of the Finsbury Food Group which is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special. 

This is what you’ll actually do!

As the HSE Improvement Lead, you’ll work with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to foster an HSE culture and ensure the highest levels of excellent HSE management by providing expert advice throughout the sites operations to ensure the effective management of all HSE requirements and to maintain compliance with all current statutory and legislative regulations.

You will be responsible in planning, supporting the development of, and implementing robust HSE practices across the site. Setting SMART health, safety and environmental objectives with the SLT for their teams, while ensuring that risk assessments/ impact assessments are in place and that a site HSE risk register is maintained and that this is reviewed regularly, managing risk and fostering an HSE culture.

The Successful Candidate!

We are a business which is growing and implementing change, so the successful candidate will be able to influence and challenge effectively to  a variety of different stakeholders, adapting their coaching style where needed to educate and deliver on the HSE agenda.

The successful candidate will have a background manufacturing, ideally in the food industry. They will have had experience in changing the health & safety culture or of developing a health & safety strategy, with continuous improvement in mind.

Why apply?

This is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses. Although you will be required to work in line with standard processes, you have the opportunity to take ownership of decision making to enable continuous improvement and put your own stamp on site practices.

This role offers growth and long-term career development, not only across the site, but within the southern cluster where you will be privy to many ongoing HSE projects.

Ideally this is you!

• Confident and assertive personality with a proactive solution focused approach to HSE and Sustainability 
• Ability to adapt your coaching style and effectively influence various stakeholders
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification e.g. Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety 
• IEMA Foundation certificate or other recognised Environmental qualification
• Strong facilitation, organisational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and multitask coupled with a high attention to detail 
• Good Microsoft Office skills (specifically Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint). 
• Previous Safety, Health and Environmental experience at a senior level gained within Manufacturing and experience developing a HSE culture.
• Strong communication skills, both written & verbal. 
• Understanding of current and proposed Safety, Health and Environmental legislation. 
• Knowledge and Experience of ISO type management systems. 

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!