Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

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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!

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 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.

• 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

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 and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Continued investment in your personal development
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
• Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.