Health, Safety & Environment Manager
21 hours ago
Cambridge
Position Title: Health, Safety & Environment Manager Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: Whittlesey Grade: Grade 06 Requisition ID: 37547 In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy. About the role. At Whittlesey, we're looking for someone who goes beyond compliance - someone who can shape culture, influence leaders, and inspire teams they don't directly manage. Of course, safety is non-negotiable. We are always Safety First. For Us, For Family. So much so, we've built our own internal safety brand - because making sure every colleague goes home safely to their family and friends isn't just a priority, it's part of who we are. But this role? It's bigger than that. This is about setting the bar - not just for Whittlesey, but for the wider business. It's about embedding a safety mindset so deeply that it becomes instinctive. Lived. Breathed. Owned by everyone. What you'll be doing. You'll sit at the heart of the site leadership team, influencing thinking, challenging norms, and driving a culture where safety isn't driven by process... but by people. You'll need to: • Influence and coach leaders to take true ownership of safety, • Build belief and accountability across teams you don't directly lead, • Turn strategy into everyday behaviours on the ground, • Driving safe working practices and ensuring full legal compliance, • Shaping HSE strategy and influencing policy development, • Leading risk assessments and safe systems of work, • Embedding HSE standards through daily site presence and coaching, • Delivering impactful training and inductions, • Investigating incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence, • Leading audits, inspections, and compliance reporting, • Owning ISO 45001 & 14001 systems and audit plans, • Partnering with SLT, HR and Occupational Health on key issues, • Driving continuous improvement through data, insights and scorecards, • NEBOSH General Certificate & National Diploma (essential), • Environmental qualification (essential), • Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, • Experience within a senior HSE role in manufacturing (7-10 years), • Knowledge of ISO 45001 (essential) and ISO 14001 (desirable) • An achievable yearly bonus based on personal performance., • An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay, • Flexible holidays - where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year, • Optional health cash plan, • Cycle to work scheme, • Stage 1: Initial screening with a Talent Acquisition Partner, • Stage 2: Virtual interview with the Hiring Manager and a senior leader JBRP1_UKTJ