SHE Manager

Job Description

SHE Manager – Greencore Desserts Newark

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, competitive matched Pension contributions, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Greencore Desserts Newark, Jessop Way, NG24 2ER

Ways of Working: Site Based

Hours of work: 08:30am-17:00pm (flexible as per business needs)

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Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US.

Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our site in Newark, Nottinghamshire, specialises in producing a range of chilled desserts, including trifles, cream cakes, and choux pastries. The site employs over 1,800 people and operates in a fast-paced, high-volume production environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will lead on ensuring a positive safety culture for the site and be responsible for coordinating the activities required to meet Greencore Health, Safety & Environmental standards. You will be adapt at taking an active role in leading a positive safety culture behaviour and be a visible presence to the operation. The ability to challenge and drive change is key alongside being personable, passionate and having the energy to bring this role to life.

Role Accountabilities:

Your responsibilities as Site SHE Manager are to:

• Devise and implement SHE strategies to enable the delivery of a proactive SHE culture providing a valuable competitive edge to the business through the behaviour of its people.
• Ensure all Health, Safety and Environment legal requirements, policies, standards, procedures are interpreted, communicated, documented and systems exist to ensure the Business Unit is compliant with current legislation and Bakkavor policy regarding SHE.
• Develop, implement, maintain, communicate and continuously improve the Health, Safety and Environment management system for the business, ensuring that all relevant paperwork and reports are completed and issued to relevant parties as required.
• Design, implement, monitor and report SHE performance, analyse trends and develop actions plans to deliver targets regarding SHE.
• Identification and coordination of SHE training and development for managers, enabling effective management of SHE in every respect and ensuring that key personnel involved in Health & Safety activities are competent to fulfil their responsibilities.
• Promote and drive a culture of continuous improvement of Health & Safety and best environmental practice through the effective engagement of the workforce.
• Ensure all incidents are investigated, recorded and reported, identifying and recommending improved practices to reduce accidents. Notification of incidents to enforcement authorities as required.
• Monitor risk assessment process and provide assistance / advice to assessors to ensure risk assessments / safe systems of work are maintained and meet regulatory requirements.
• Co-ordinate Business Unit actions with regard to enforcement authorities / loss adjusters and that any communications are reported to the Head of Operations.
  
  
  
  

What we’re looking for:

• Diploma level NEBOSH H&S and Environmental qualification or equivalent.

Significant experience in a senior Health & Safety role working for an organisation with a large number of employees and with vast amounts of different equipment and machines.

Passionate about SHE and ability to influence at a senior level and champion change / implementation at all levels.

Strong communication skills both in terms of verbal / presentation skills and written documentation and a team player.

Demonstrable compliance to legislation and use of problem solving skills / personal judgement as well as policy adherence in order to make optimum business decisions.

 

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What You’ll Get In Return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
  
  
  
  

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on‑the‑job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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