So what's the role 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 Forestgate 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:
1. Compliance with Hovis Ltd and legislative Health and Safety requirements.
2. Ownership of risk assessments and overall quality of safety output.
3. Coordination of Health, Safety and Environmental activities for Forestgate, ensuring all targets are achieved in line with expectation.
4. Provide an unbiased and transparent auditing function for site/company.
5. Lead, develop and implement sustainable HS&E management programmes and provide the strategic architecture for HS&E that will ensure statutory accreditations are retained.
6. Line management of our SHE Advisor
What are must haves from you?
7. IOSH and/or NEBOSH qualifications.
8. Experience of accident prevention programme implementation.
9. The ability to design and implement effective Health and Safety training ensuring impactful deployment in line with company Health and Safety strategy.
10. Experience of Health and Safety change management
11. Experience of working with Duty Holder Register; specifically DSEAR/PUWER
12. Experience of ISO14001 or ISO18001
13. Experience of working within a unionised environment (desirable)
14. IEMA certification (desirable)
Why choose Hovis?
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 that Hovis products are ranked either number one or number two in bread loaves categories in all regions of the UK and Northern Ireland (2).
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.
Benefits baked in
All colleagues can choose from a wide range of benefits, here’s a top crust taster of what we offer:
15. Competitive annual leave and flexibility where possible for a healthy work-life balance and recharge your batteries.
16. Three levels of pension schemes to suit your needs.
17. Aviva DigiCare+ Workplace App includes annual health checks, digital GP consultations, nutritional advice, and much more.
18. Hovis Choice benefits platform for everyday savings, cashback and much more.
19. Free on-site parking.
Have your say and bake a difference
We care about what our colleagues think and run annual engagement surveys to give you a chance to have a say; your feedback is valuable, and we strive to improve for all our colleagues year on year.
Hovis Pride & Values
Every day, we're churning out around 1.3 million delicious loaves of bread and bakery products throughout the UK and Ireland. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s Baking, Manufacturing, Logistics, Engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team such as HSE, Technical, Procurement, Information Systems, HR, Central Supply Chain Planning, Commercial, Central Engineering, Marketing, Product Development and Finance and to name a few. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.
Hovis is for you if...
20. you enjoy being a part of a dynamic and interdependent team
21. your approach is muffin short of excellence
22. you rise to challenges, seeing them as a learning opportunity and value the rewards they bring
23. you feel that quality is paramount to in everything you do
24. you value trust and accountability
25. you are responsible and strive to do the right thing
At Hovis, we believe in embracing diversity and creating a welcoming workplace for everyone. Whether you're applying for a job or already part of our team, we promise to treat you with fairness, respect, and dignity. You will be valued and included here at Hovis.
Does this sound like the right environment for you? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Caring for our planet & communities
At Hovis® we believe that to continue to be a successful business we must remain socially responsible. This is just the top crust of how we care for our plant, our communities and people, read more about our sustainability and charity efforts on our website .
26. All our bread bags are recyclable, look out for the On Pack Recycling Logo (OPRL). We are members of the UK Plastic Pact run by WRAP, and continually investigating new sustainable packaging solutions and evaluating these against key criteria such as total packaging carbon footprint and minimising food waste. With support from government the Pact also aims to ensure consistent recycling across the UK.
27. We support over 850 charities up and down the country, including FareShare. We have donated hundreds of thousands of loaves of bread helping to support and feed thousands of people, breakfast clubs and coffee mornings.
28. Hovis proudly partners with GroceryAid, our colleagues take part in many fundraising events for this Grocery industry charity. A huge benefit of supporting GroceryAid is that our colleagues have access to comprehensive support services, such as mental health resources, wellness guidance, financial advice, and counselling. Additionally, eligible colleagues may benefit from financial grants in times of crisis or income disruption.
Knead to know about Hovis
29. We are the proud guardians of over 133 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand.
30. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each and every one.
31. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products.
32. There's over 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK.
33. In 2020 Hovis was acquired by Endless Plc in an agreement that will allow us to make significant investment into the business infrastructure, grow our product range and achieve further growth in the bakery category.
Source:
(2) Nielsen. Total Coverage, excl. Discounters, by region, 52 w/e 15/06/24.